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I am just asking, not stating a fact. Is it possible people are associating Neo <anything> because it sounds like Neo Nazis and it just instantly turns it into
by mikhailt 10y ago
I am just asking, not stating a fact.
Is it possible people are associating Neo <anything> because it sounds like Neo Nazis and it just instantly turns it into a negative association?
I know every time I hear Neoliberal, I cannot stop myself from hearing Neo Nazi either.
It sounds like a good PR rebranding would help here.
- Bartweiss 10y agoI don't think so; at least I haven't had this thought and haven't heard it used in insults for the movement. I've tended to assume that neo<foo> is disreputable in a larger sense, because it indicates a departure from older, popular principles. Modern neoliberalism in particular suffers from an association with neoconservatism, with progressives damning it as a vaguely social-left reinvention of Fukayama. Both have acquired a connotation of elitism, aggressive monetarism, and foreign intervention that sours populist movements from either side against them.