Joe Biden keeps stomping on progressives — despite the fact that he desperately needs their votes. If he wants to defeat Donald Trump, this is exactly the wrong way to do it.
I mean yeah it's an easy take, but so is this counter-take. Obviously it's just a turn of phrase. People don't literally mean "socialism for the rich." It's just a lazy riposte to people who are already using the term "socialism" wrong. I don't really see how it's damaging to the wider discourse in the bizarro hell fever-dream parlance we are already navigating.
It literally only works because they have internalised "socialism is bad" and it is being used as an insult against the rich. "Haha look at these rich socialist fucks".
If you said "look at these people implementing homosexuality for the rich eww" you'd recognise it as a clearly homophobic remark, in the same vein it is therefore a very clearly socialist-phobic remark to make when saying exactly the same thing but replacing homosexuality with "socialism for the rich".
The usage holds socialism as a slur and intentionally tries to play to people who have internalised the word as a slur.
I mean yeah it's an easy take, but so is this counter-take. Obviously it's just a turn of phrase. People don't literally mean "socialism for the rich." It's just a lazy riposte to people who are already using the term "socialism" wrong. I don't really see how it's damaging to the wider discourse in the bizarro hell fever-dream parlance we are already navigating.
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It literally only works because they have internalised "socialism is bad" and it is being used as an insult against the rich. "Haha look at these rich socialist fucks".
If you said "look at these people implementing homosexuality for the rich eww" you'd recognise it as a clearly homophobic remark, in the same vein it is therefore a very clearly socialist-phobic remark to make when saying exactly the same thing but replacing homosexuality with "socialism for the rich".
The usage holds socialism as a slur and intentionally tries to play to people who have internalised the word as a slur.