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Let's not. After the whole "China Virus" shit propagated by the right, I'd prefer if we tried not to associate vulnerabilities with specific people.

bequanna 4y ago
xfitm3 4y ago
I don't believe this comment is made in good faith, there is nothing wrong with the "right" and it's senselessly adding fuel to our political division.
- malcolmgreaves 4y ago
  There is something deeply wrong with the authoritarian politics of the right and its casual use of racism to further political control. > it's senselessly adding fuel to our political division. This comment, whether you realize it or not, is coming from a place of extreme social privilege. Remember that for the majority of people, politics is not a game. It is serious. People lose their rights to live the life they want all the time. Sometimes those politics turn violent and people lose everything.
markdown 4y ago
It's not a new word. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/shanghaied https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/shanghai... https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shanghaied https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shanghaied
- malcolmgreaves 4y ago
  That's not an argument for continuing to use a word.
  - markdown 4y ago
    It is if the argument to stop using it is some irrelevant point about some other location-based word that was used negatively only recently. Something got shanghaied isn't a pejorative in the way that Trump acolytes use "China virus".
    - malcolmgreaves 4y ago
      > irrelevant point about some other location-based word that was used negatively only recently. Are you unaware of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 -- which is exactly around the time that this term was popular and in common use?
      - markdown 4y ago
        The correlation is coincidental. It has nothing to do with that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing

bequanna 4y ago

xfitm3 4y ago

I don't believe this comment is made in good faith, there is nothing wrong with the "right" and it's senselessly adding fuel to our political division.

malcolmgreaves 4y ago
There is something deeply wrong with the authoritarian politics of the right and its casual use of racism to further political control. > it's senselessly adding fuel to our political division. This comment, whether you realize it or not, is coming from a place of extreme social privilege. Remember that for the majority of people, politics is not a game. It is serious. People lose their rights to live the life they want all the time. Sometimes those politics turn violent and people lose everything.

markdown 4y ago

It's not a new word. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/shanghaied https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/shanghai... https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shanghaied https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shanghaied

malcolmgreaves 4y ago
That's not an argument for continuing to use a word.
- markdown 4y ago
  It is if the argument to stop using it is some irrelevant point about some other location-based word that was used negatively only recently. Something got shanghaied isn't a pejorative in the way that Trump acolytes use "China virus".
  - malcolmgreaves 4y ago
    > irrelevant point about some other location-based word that was used negatively only recently. Are you unaware of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 -- which is exactly around the time that this term was popular and in common use?
    - markdown 4y ago
      The correlation is coincidental. It has nothing to do with that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing