Is Entertainment the New Motivation for Watching the News?

[turbo]

Are you freakin' kidding with this? That's just bizarre. You can throw around hateful, insulting, and derogatory phrases like "slave to moneyed interests" and "servitude to the wealthy" and even dare to mention "decent discourse" and "casting aspersions"?

Then you yourself refer to social security and other countries' health care programs as "socialist", then object to me using the word "Marxist" to describe the economic ideology of Democrats? Are you as confused about what the words "socialist" and "Marxist" mean as much as you are about "conservative" and "neo-con"?

You have yet to explain how my use of the word "Marxist" is indecent in any way, much less a "political slur", while your posts are consistently hateful and insulting and derogatory in a self-evident and obvious way.

Seriously, dude, this is bizarre.

It would be really nice if someone who is a mentor recognized how twisted it is to allow you to keep calling people Marxist with no justification apart from your Rush Limbaugh world view. Seriously, we don't all live there. You might want to watch a bit of the news that is carried by actual news sources. If you want to investigate "Hateful and insulting and derogatory statements, you might start a bit closer to home. People who are progressives, moderates, or liberals, seem to be a little bit less inclined to sling crap on others. There is room to discuss differences of opinion, but when name-calling and nastiness intrude, it's harder for people to keep cool and be nice. Do you get that?

 

[OmCheeto]

You have yet to explain how my use of the word "Marxist" is indecent in any way, much less a "political slur", while your posts are consistently hateful and insulting and derogatory in a self-evident and obvious way.

I believe it is the use of the term "Socialist", which most people equate with the term "Marxist", at least here in the States, by the members of the entertainment channel that neither you nor I do not watch, that has re-popularized the term, in an "indecent" way. It really doesn't matter that you and I understand that Marxist and Socialist are simply political terms. But it does matter to the 34% of the people who would vote for Palin over Obama, that "Marxist" is a ******* term. So when you use it as a careless joke, we take it as you so jokingly intended it, as an insult.

BTW, where are you from? 6 years on the forum, and still hiding your whereabouts? Where's that Assange guy when you need him?

 

[Al68]

It would be really nice if someone who is a mentor recognized how twisted it is to allow you to keep calling people Marxist with no justification apart from your Rush Limbaugh world view. Seriously, we don't all live there. You might want to watch a bit of the news that is carried by actual news sources. If you want to investigate "Hateful and insulting and derogatory statements, you might start a bit closer to home. People who are progressives, moderates, or liberals, seem to be a little bit less inclined to sling crap on others. There is room to discuss differences of opinion, but when name-calling and nastiness intrude, it's harder for people to keep cool and be nice. Do you get that?

It seems to me that a good way to objectively determine if a political label is derogatory is whether or not political groups use the label to describe themselves. That's common for the word "Marxist". How common is it for "slave to the wealthy"?

Instead of repeatedly just asserting that the word "Marxist" is derogatory, why not just explain why you object to the word "Marxist"? I don't mind using the word "socialist" instead, like you have, but you are not the only other member here, and others object to the word "socialist" with reasons that are lame, but far better than the lack of a reason you have provided.

I have no problem refraining from using the word "Marxist", if there is any logical reason for anyone to construe it as a "political slur". But at this point, I am far more interested about the reason for the objection than about any future use of the word.

 

[Evo]

Marxist is going to be nixed as a slur, tea bagger, neocon, also no longer allowed.

So, err on the safe side for now and stop using terms that can be considered derogatory.

 

[Evo]

Comparing someone to Rush Limbaugh is a slur.

Maybe.

I need to get out an official list. I will accept submissions for consideration.