I'm a native Portlander and it put me from the Bay Area.

Triggered.

It worked in Brave New World.

idk if the latest Pew Political Typology report has been posted yet. It's nothing most of us don't already know, but it has the Pew stamp of approval with, like, real numbers and methodology and stuff. Cliffs: The left, right, and country as a whole are all tearing themselves apart.

http://www.people-press.org/2017/10/...ight-and-left/

Looks like Megan McArdle has been the now shut down politics section to come up with this hot take

Kind of irritating that midway through she makes this point

but a sentences later

Wait what? I thought words themselves didn't have much power? Now they do, but the power of camouflage but not the power of motivation?

In any case this is just a rehash of Chait's white supremacists should be reserved for David Duke and other Republicans are just......racist? I guess? The conclusion tends to undermine everything else

Ummm we'll talk about how he wants to throw all the non white people out and get rid of voting and is obsessed with white purity? Like does Megan understand that those are the actual things are upsetting and the actual emotional impact being called white supremacist is like a small cherry on top? Like if we called him a jigglypoof the things he advocated would still be upsetting?

I think going over how people who want football players to stand for the election make up transparently false reasoning that football players are disrespecting the troops even though football players are saying that they respect the troops and are protesting (usually white) police violence on (usually black) people which makes you wonder if, perhaps, there's some alternative reasoning going on is a bit of waste of time to try and explain to Megan because she's already made up her mind that there's a difference and that difference has to be respected even if it's transparently made in bad faith

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/artic...te-supremacist

Seems hard to disagree that there's a reverse euphemism treadmill in effect, especially for words about racial attitudes. If you look at the usage of "racist" and "white supremacist" 15 years ago versus now, I am confident (without having done any actual research obv) that they would be both used less often and perceived far more gravely than they are now. "Alt-right" is basically the new reverse euphemism to describe the hardcore white nationalist fringe and distinguish them from the run-of-the-mill white supremacist Trump voters. It's not really different from your jigglypoof hypo, and in a few years maybe people will need to make up a new word for the Spencer types when the entire Republican party has become alt-right.

Is it ultimately harmful to have this kind of treadmill? It's probably irrelevant, because how can you avoid it, but it's thought-provoking to recall that one of Hillary's big gaffes was her deplorables speech, which was an effort specifically to develop new terminology to educate voters about the forces involved in the Trump movement.

There is a big difference in that the alt-right is motivated primarily by racism whereas the traditional GOP was interested in redistributing money to the super wealthy and just used racism to get votes.

Alt-right also seems to not give a **** about any of the traditional GOP talking points beyond racism. They'd totally be onboard for white socialism.

Pennsylvania iGaming bill (including the pokers) passed by senate and house; reportedly will get governor's signature.

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@bob

Calling that an effort to educate voters is extremely charitable.

The definitions of the words have changed, but they could have been too narrow in the past. It's recognized that holocaust denial is anti-semetic even if you say nothing disparaging about Jews. I think that's about where the social justice warriors have come to regarding racism.

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/chine...ivacy-invasion

Dayum

Can't stand the term "Alt-Right," sounds almost as cool as "Grand Wizard" iyam. I vote we call these people "Chappy Whites."

Uptighty-Whities.

Double dayum.

And while our government can't do that as openly as the Chinese government, equifax et al can do much the same here.

http://www.economist.com/node/842137

Meanwhile I'm like 40 Spanish classes in and still forget every other word.

Hopefully stuff like this will get us to finally abandon this god awful election system and switch to something that makes more sense and allows for third parties to rise and fall

Or zero parties.

Can you list the flourishing countries who have no political parties?

This point is true.

When you misuse an insult or overuse it, it loses its potency. In some cases, the word is actually reappropriated by the insulted group and spun as a positive description. People used to be called geeks and nerds as an insult and in response, those groups took those labels, applied it to themselves and turned it into a positive label. We already see Trump supporters doing that with 'deplorables'.

I think it's reasonable to make distinctions between varying degrees of racists and not lump everybody with racist thoughts into the same category as the Richard Spencers of the world. This doesn't mean that we should necessarily let the little things slide or go unnoticed. It only means that by exaggerating minor transgressions and aggressively admonishing those who make them, we push them towards the groups we compare them to and away from anybody who can try to reform them.

Tuvalu duh

W/o dating in the workplace I have zero girlfriends since college. Please don't take away my only successful dating pool.

So the Chinese government watched Black Mirror and thought, "Some of this stuff seems like a really good idea!"

You worked in the porn industry suzzer?

Define flourishing. A bunch of ME countries don't have political parties since they are monarchies. Some small islands don't either.

I don't think its true when applying it to the events of the last few years or so though. 'Crying wolf' in this analogy means the villagers are depending on a boy to tell them about the wolf they can't see, but that's supposedly not true when it comes to racists and Republicans. Republicans are supposed to have their own concept of what racism is and be able to identify it without the help of liberals.

Yet a lot of these articles imply that the rise of white identity politics has been caused by an over extension of liberal identity politics and Republicans have no agency to identity racism on their own i.e. you called everyone racist so now we have out and out racists running around and there's nothing we can do or people shrug off Trump's racism because liberals have called everything racist so being racist isn't a big deal anymore.

There's the implication of Republicans never had any agency to identify and oppose racism on their own and instead depended on liberals to accurately point out racists for Republicans and liberals failed. They never seem to grasp that maybe the reason why there are a lot of racists in or around the Republican Party is because the Republican Party is welcoming to racists or at least those who have that sentiment.

Then try a boyfriend for once, dont be so conservative.