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In reply to the discussion: Everyone Hates Neoliberals, So We Talked to Some [View all]emulatorloo
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"I'm not completely sure what your first sentence about trickle-down and privatization is saying; are you saying folks used to call people "neo-liberal" who were against "trickle-down" and privatization? "
I said nothing of the sort. However I can see the source of confusion. When I quickly typed the heading I used the word "to" rather than "the". Have just corrected that.
But to clarify anyway:
I said that DU-ers who are totally against trickle down/privatization/Reaganism were called "neo-liberals" by people who had zero knowledge of what the term means.
Adrahil explained the situation perfectly. He's not a neo-liberal. He was called a neo-liberal.
Those quick to call others 'neo-liberal' didn't have a fucking clue. They basically hurled it as an insult at people they didn't like.
That's why there is a backlash against the term at DU.
Your theory was "The brand-new DU disdain for the term "neo-liberal" is an establishment backlash"
That imho is totally off the mark.
As is "Backlash here has much more to do with defending the losses of '16 by deflecting blame than it does the evolution of terms."
Backlash here is because the way the term was misused and abused on this forum during 2016.
DU's 'disdain' is because people who name-called others on the site 'neo-liberal' as an insult had zero idea what the term meant.
For those reasons the term 'neo-liberal' was drained of meaning in 2016 here and in the bowels of Reddit. It became just a meaningless ignorant insult