On stuff outside of lemmygrad, we are receiving a lot of hate, especially by those who just moved from Reddit. Guess they lost their hidden privilege at Reddit as their rhetoric used to be almost universal over there, while genzedong and our other subs get censored and banned. And now, on lemmy, their stuff isn’t universal, as we are more prevalent here. Seems like they really want that hidden privilege back

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    unconscious selective use of language, in this case to vilify communists

    That’s true, the Red Scare has had a lasting impact on American culture, and that impact can still be seen in vocabulary today.

    the term pops up so often in the imperial core to crap on (usually BIPOC-led) successful revolutions and their theory, usually anti-imperialist struggles

    There is certainly a racial aspect to it, some of the most dehumanizing things I’ve ever read were about China and Communism specifically, but I don’t think that precludes legitimate criticisms of authoritarianism.

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      The inconsistency of even using the term makes it more or less useless for categorizing anything meaningfully. In practice, it has become an aimless pejorative that seems to have more utility as an anarchist dog whistle for identifying each other than having anything meaningful to say about anything else.