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Re:Universal Basic Income Is a Neoliberal Plot to Make You P... by mikhailt on Monday August 08, 2016 @10:48AM (#12248207)
I am just asking, not stating a fact.

Is it possible people are associating Neo <anything> because it sounds like Neo Nazis and it just instantly turns it into a negative association?

I know every time I hear Neoliberal, I cannot stop myself from hearing Neo Nazi either.

It sounds like a good PR rebranding would help here.

Re:Universal Basic Income Is a Neoliberal Plot to Make You P... by Bartweiss on Monday August 08, 2016 @01:04PM (#12249219)
I don't think so; at least I haven't had this thought and haven't heard it used in insults for the movement.

I've tended to assume that neo<foo> is disreputable in a larger sense, because it indicates a departure from older, popular principles. Modern neoliberalism in particular suffers from an association with neoconservatism, with progressives damning it as a vaguely social-left reinvention of Fukayama. Both have acquired a connotation of elitism, aggressive monetarism, and foreign intervention that sours populist movements from either side against them.