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It's not hyperbole. You have a personal definition of those words that's ridiculously narrow.
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You have a personal definition of them which is too broad.
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Also, you said they were "two of the nastiest labels in the language." This is a different (dumb) claim.
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Misogyny is a hatred of women. Racism is a hatred of people based on arbitrary characteristics. If there are stronger pejoratives out there, provide them (seriously... I'm struggling for new insults, as all seem to have lost their punch since Trump and the tribal politics around him came to the fore).
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Why do conservatives desire a conservative SCOTUS, though? It's not for abstract reasons. First and foremost, they want a conservative court to scale back or eliminate abortion rights. They also want a court that won't uphold affirmative action, that will aggressively back the police, that will (and did) gut voting rights, that will uphold voter ID and gerrymandering, etc.
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It's not misogynist to oppose abortion. I'm staunchly pro-choice and cannot accept that leap. I also do not agree that abortion rights are the main reason conservatives want SCOTUS. I think the main reason they want to control SCOTUS is to use it as a bulwark against progressive policies generally. They want to preserve what they see as traditional American culture.
That conservatives may support police does not automatically make them racist. These people actually believe in "law and order." You and I understand the racist impacts of "law and order," but given many conservatives who fancy that issue are low information voters, I don't think they understand the connection. They're not focused on race. They're just strange people who like hierarchies and order and rigid rule application.
But none of this is to say that conservatism is not infected with bigotry and misogyny. So yes, a percentage of conservatives want SCOTUS to bless gerrymandering and voter suppression. But that doesn't allow one to throw the terms racist or misogynist at all of them. They are not synonyms.
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Heck, even where they aren't explicitly motivated by those things - wanting jurists who are skeptical of environmental and other regulations - they're pining for courts that will help them maintain a racist and misogynistic status quo. Is there anywhere in the country where pollution and health and safety risks fall disproportionately on the affluent white neighborhoods? Nope.
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My affluent neighborhood is harmed by climate change. If yours is not, can you send me the zip? I'm always on the lookout for retirement locales.
And come on... Tying avoidance of regulation to racism or misogyny is beyond a stretch. People who wish to avoid regulation do so for economic reasons. Most of the actors here are huge corporations. To suggest Exxon is racist is silly.
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Race and gender bias is everywhere, literally baked into how our society functions. Not caring about counteracting it is pretty much indistinguishable from preferring it that way.
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Heads you win, tails any critic of your position loses. You realize how that half-cleverness is harming your aims, I assume. Try a similar argument before a judge. Ever try to trap a judge like that? It's akin to to writing "The Court
must" do something in a brief.
