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Re:On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality by twblalock on Thursday November 16, 2017 @03:51PM (#15716503)
There are lot of systematic "isms" -- capitalism, socialism, fascism, etc.
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Re:On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality by humanrebar on Thursday November 16, 2017 @05:43PM (#15717379)
Those words aren't used the same way as "racism". To wit:

Are communist Americans also capitalist because they part of systemic structural capitalism?

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Re:On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality by closeparen on Thursday November 16, 2017 @11:48PM (#15719003)
The point isn’t to find an adjective for the communists, but to describe the society they live in, and whether specific actions or policies make it more or less that way.
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Re:On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality by twblalock on Thursday November 16, 2017 @06:10PM (#15717560)
Yes, you might call them anti-capitalist capitalists.
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