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I've been seeing this totally organic discourse popping up in reddit-logo comments. They found a new silver bullet that allows them to ignore anything being said

Democrats clutching pearls instead of fighting fascism is going to get fascism faster, and it will be all the fault of leftists somehow

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[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 22 points 7 months ago (3 children)

okay but isn't Democratic an adjective and Democrat a noun? Doesn't even make sense grammatically.

[–] disposable_cracker@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago

They want people to conflate the program of their bourgeois party with actual democracy.

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Republicans use “Democrat” as an adjective. That’s the “slur”. It’s more like a dogwhistle or ingroup speech than anything. Kind of like how sometimes chuds here give themselves away by saying “straight white male” instead of “cishet white dude”

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I prefer the term dongus-holding kkkracker personally

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I am a person with unfortunately exposed weak-points.

(By exposed I mean not protected by all the bone and fleshy bits that protect the rest of my vital organs)

[–] Rivalarrival 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It is grammatically valid.

"The Party" means the party that values the principles of .

"The Party" is the party comprised of . The "Carpenter Party" means the party comprised of carpenters. The "Plumber party" means the party comprised of plumbers.

"The Democratic Party" is the party that values the principals of Democracy.

"The Democrat Party" is the party comprised of Democrats.

Denouncing the Democratic Party means denouncing the principals of Democracy. Denouncing the Democrat party means denouncing the people who call themselves Democrats.

[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I thought this post was about reddit getting mad that the word "Democrat" was used at all to describe a member of the Democratic Party, and I was making the point that of course they do, no one's gonna call a member of the Democratic Party a "Democratic." But people explained what this post was about below.