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"we have a form of global communism imposed on us by global business giants under the guise of global capitalism" Dear Americans Can you please stop calling e

"we have a form of global communism imposed on us by global business giants under the guise of global capitalism" Dear Americans Can you please stop calling everything 'Communist'? Now we have articles by BBC 'is the Pope communist', you have posters 'Race mixing is communism', 'climate change is communist'. What is this, communism of the brain? Do you not have other words? Chairman Mao didn't invest 'global business', you own this problem lock, stock and barrel.

jbotz 5y ago
You know that the BBC is not American, right? It's the British Broadcasting Company. Could you please stop calling all English-speakers Americans? ;-)
- ClumsyPilot 5y ago
  I know, I know, but UK media tends to emulate the US one at times. For a national broadcaster to compare the pope to communist leaders - I mean thats an outrageous and illiterate comparison.
avs733 5y ago
I think my two favorite examples of this from personal experience are when people have said to me: - Marxism is communist! - the Nazis we’re communist! What you are noting is something I find really personally interesting. We like to think otherwise but words are very socially defined. What you’re describing isn’t people referencing an actual definition of communism. It’s more akin to a pointer for “bad”. Communism has been maligned in the US for so long and the label of communist/m has so long been used to malign other things (labor rights) that it is not used to refer to the economic theory in the general patience. It’s basically just a mother word for “bad” often specific to something someone perceived as related to power and economics but can’t describe. Socialism is the new version. The demands of “keep the government out of my government run healthcare” from a few years back is telling.
- Terry_Roll 5y ago
  Yes you are right to say people are referring to things portrayed as bad but I dont know why people given up critical thinking to a democratically elected representative. Democracy seems to be the ultimate con trick besides Royalty and Religion. The latter two were enough and now we have govt's taking 3rd place, but another way to look at it is its convenient for Royalty and Religion to let Govt exist as it takes some slack and responsibility off of them.
  - avs733 5y ago
    They don’t realize they are. From many peoples perception of their own thinking (meta cognition) whatever’s they do to cognitively engage with an input is critical thinking. If you give them information they construct meaning from it. If that information is facts, it’s facts. If it’s someone else’s conclusion or interpretation, it still gets treated as information received.
Terry_Roll 5y ago

jbotz 5y ago

You know that the BBC is not American, right? It's the British Broadcasting Company. Could you please stop calling all English-speakers Americans? ;-)

ClumsyPilot 5y ago
I know, I know, but UK media tends to emulate the US one at times. For a national broadcaster to compare the pope to communist leaders - I mean thats an outrageous and illiterate comparison.

avs733 5y ago

I think my two favorite examples of this from personal experience are when people have said to me: - Marxism is communist! - the Nazis we’re communist! What you are noting is something I find really personally interesting. We like to think otherwise but words are very socially defined. What you’re describing isn’t people referencing an actual definition of communism. It’s more akin to a pointer for “bad”. Communism has been maligned in the US for so long and the label of communist/m has so long been used to malign other things (labor rights) that it is not used to refer to the economic theory in the general patience. It’s basically just a mother word for “bad” often specific to something someone perceived as related to power and economics but can’t describe. Socialism is the new version. The demands of “keep the government out of my government run healthcare” from a few years back is telling.

Terry_Roll 5y ago
Yes you are right to say people are referring to things portrayed as bad but I dont know why people given up critical thinking to a democratically elected representative. Democracy seems to be the ultimate con trick besides Royalty and Religion. The latter two were enough and now we have govt's taking 3rd place, but another way to look at it is its convenient for Royalty and Religion to let Govt exist as it takes some slack and responsibility off of them.
- avs733 5y ago
  They don’t realize they are. From many peoples perception of their own thinking (meta cognition) whatever’s they do to cognitively engage with an input is critical thinking. If you give them information they construct meaning from it. If that information is facts, it’s facts. If it’s someone else’s conclusion or interpretation, it still gets treated as information received.

Terry_Roll 5y ago