2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFound this on FB this morning.
I put it on GD, but it got locked. The host suggested it more appropriately belongs on GD-P instead, so here it is.
Jenny_92808
(1,342 posts)because i spoke out to say that RW speakers are harming us. We are being infiltrated by paid posters who disparage us.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)They are, but like really hate it when you disrupt their belief that they co-opted "progressive" as the preferred means of referring to themselves succesfully. Just look at the right wing PPI site, it has used the label Progressive since Goddess, I think the 80's.
When you shatter their re-branding they take it personal and with great umbrage.
CorporatistNation
(2,546 posts)It is a pitty that some people are so easily persuaded with words no matter how opposite of the context in which they are written.
A great illustration of the situation.
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)That's a good one.