Re:For an Inclusive Culture, Try Working Less
by aexq36 on Monday June 12, 2017 @04:35PM
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That's a good point. I'd be happy to admit that the term is somewhat vague and inaccurate, so as long people first acknowledge that it's not a conspiracy theory.
Re:For an Inclusive Culture, Try Working Less
by chongli on Monday June 12, 2017 @04:28PM
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It is, on the other hand, poisoning the well to use a label adopted by a small subset of a broader group
Welcome to the synecdoche of online discourse, where the masses are responsible for everything done by the extreme fringe. Why deal with substantive arguments when there's a weak man [0] close at hand?
[0] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweapo...
Yeah, I've been involved in coalitions where some of the members were Marxist. That doesn't make labelling generic leftist action as “Marxist” any less of a false label and attempt to to use the emotional loading of “Marxist” in the wider society as a technique of poisoning the well against leftism generally.
> It's not poisoning the well to call someone a term that they voluntarily adopt for themselves.
It is, on the other hand, poisoning the well to use a label adopted by a small subset of a broader group to refer to actions of the broader group generally, when that is done specifically because of the negative emotional loading in the target audience of the label I question. Which is, at best, what is at play with the use of the term “Cultural Marxism”.