• thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I wonder if it’s calling communists ‘commies’ that some may take offense to.

    To my ear, this is sort of a slur in that I’ve only really ever heard it when some army guy is shouting ‘god damn commies’ or the like.

    Just a disclaimer, I don’t have particularly strong feelings for either a communist or capatalist structure. I think shitty people tend to gather power so most of us are just taken advantage of in either scenario.

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      1 year ago

      I am sorry if my title was perceived in that manner. My first language is not English, therefore I have some difficulty expressing my thoughts at times.

      Some of my students are communists and have referred to themselves as “commies”. I was simply under the impression that this is a colloquium. Nonetheless, I thank you for your advice and trust that you keep well.

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        1 year ago

        When a communist calls themselves a commie, it’s a form of taking the insult’s power away from those that use it as an insult, and gaining solidarity from it, much like how racial pejoratives often come to be claimed by those communities in defiance of the original dehumanizing intent of the aggressors.

        A capitalist calling a communist a commie is insulting. Just like a communist or socialist calling a capitalist a bootlicker.

        A communist calling another communist a commie is solidarity.