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If we're going to listen to reactionary wisdom of folk sayings, I've got a long, long list of ones that will provide us with all sorts of simple-to-grok, contra
by vkou 4y ago
If we're going to listen to reactionary wisdom of folk sayings, I've got a long, long list of ones that will provide us with all sorts of simple-to-grok, contradictory, and utterly pointless advice for how to steer our politics.
And this particular one works just fine if you reverse the adjectives. After all, the justice system is generally the one responsible for executing people. It does tend to apply itself in a rather... Unjust way - but that's just one of life's little ironies.
If you're asking people to listen, you're going to need to actually express your arguments, instead of vaguely gesticulating in the general direction of a 'Four legs good, two legs better' poster.
- poszlem 4y agoIt's kind on interesting that the word "reactionary" is also really disliked in Poland too (alongside with the likes of "comrade"). Both of those (plus "social justice") have been used to silence and oppress there. It's really disheartening to see that kind of vocabulary coming back to fashion in English.
- vkou 4y agoReactionary has never left the lexicon, and is a perfect term for describing the bones of most modern conservative movements. It may become less relevant when the latter stop behaving in that manner, but you can't blame me for calling a spade a spade. When they start talking about things like Laffer curves again, and stop trying to turn the clock back on things like marriage and contraception, then it will stop being an appropriate moniker.
- baal80spam 4y agoAnother one is "collaboration". As someone working in IT, I had a hard time getting used to it meaning "work with your peers toward the common goal". In Poland it has a completely different (negative) meaning.