Is Activist Vocabulary Hurting the Democrats?
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Third Way's latest memo has weak advice and a hidden agenda

A ton of different facets here. Among them:

  1. A little window into the consultant-driven “how can we best manipulate the voters’ perceptions, what ‘messaging’ will be most effective” way that DC looks at trying to win elections
  2. A little window into the wildly malicious kinds of corruption that can infect that little ecosystem
  3. The whole strategy of “we’re going to tell you what the ‘enemies’ believe, and then why it is wrong” even when absolutely none or almost none of the ‘enemies’ are actually saying that, is of course as common in mainstream politics as it is on Lemmy. And of course, it works quite well in both places.
  • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialOPEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    The point is, no one in the Democratic party was actually doing any of the things they listed. Like literally 0 people in 0 emails, for most of them, and then a tiny handful of them had been used once or something.

    Yes, I agree that “Latinx” is stupid and that Latinos specifically feel that way overwhelmingly. The point is that they’re creating an artificial reality wherein all these mainstream Democratic politicians are saying “Latinx,” when pretty much none of them are.

    • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Do democrat activists or democrat members not count? I agree with people like Steven Bonnell that democrat politicians are way more civil and inoffensive compared to republican politicians, but there is more to a part and its image than the politicians.

      • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialOPEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        democrat activists

        Sus

        Also, the article is clearly referencing this think-tank paper that was aimed at “democrat politicians,” not “democrat activists.”

        • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I skimmed through the memo and didn’t see where they specifically say only politicians. Plus when I looked up a few terms I had never heard of they were being used in places like the department of labour publications

          • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialOPEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Plus when I looked up a few terms I had never heard of they were being used in places like the department of labour publications

            Interesting, which terms?

            • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              “Justice-involved individuals” was the one the DoL used. While “minoritized community” was used by the NIH. I already know what intersectionality means but I figured I would check that one as well and the VA is using that term.

                • killingspark@feddit.orgEnglish
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  Just wanna sneak in a little thank you for what you’re doing here, discussions like this can be draining

                  • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialOPEnglish
                    2·
                    2 months ago

                    Lol thank you very much. I have for-real started to suspect that people are making a goal out of having pointlessly disagreeable conversations on Lemmy about trivial topics for some unknown reason.

                    Almost certainly it is not that, just me being paranoid and Lemmy is being kind of stupid as the internet is known to be sometimes, but it’s really hard to look at this conversation or this one and not conclude that someone is just being a pain in the ass on purpose.

                    (Actually, I think the inclusion of “democrat” as an adjective is kind of indicative of one very particular purpose for having this one particular conversation with me which doesn’t seem to have any factual basis for the person to think the things they are saying that they think, but it goes beyond that. Usually it seems just random. There are just lots of people on Lemmy who will say something without thinking and then try to defend it to death so they won’t have to “lose” the conversation, I think is the most likely actual explanation.)