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[–] Magos_Galactose@lemmygrad.ml 46 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I'll go for "USian" instead, becaus for whatever reasons it seem to pissed them off more.

[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 6 months ago

This is true

[–] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 6 months ago

That cuz it sound like Asian to them... Lmayo

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 months ago

Estadounidense

[–] Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 months ago

This is always what I use. That is one reason, but I also don't want to group all of the Americas in with the US and it makes that distinction pretty clear.

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago
[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 6 months ago

We need more people to take us seriously, they get taken seriously by default.

[–] JoeDaRedTrooperYT@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I type libcuck instead of liberal

[–] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's just a bit wooden (unnatural) to dat

What about Americucks

Or Cancucks (For Canadians)...

That's somethin'...

[–] JoeDaRedTrooperYT@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Very fitting since they let the politicians and even make excuses for them to fuck their lives over.

[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Libs works pretty well

[–] taiphlosion@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 6 months ago

This has always been the way

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

That always confused me. Why do so many people call it CCP? That’s not the proper name of the party so what gives? My professors do this all the time and I even mildly called it out in one of my essays because it’s just so stupid.

[–] Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think some people do it out of being extremely petty, as a way to "own" China. Like China cares what John Youtube calls their party. There is also the attempts to deligitimatize it from standard Communist Party naming conventions (Communist Part of Country) and to highlight racial elements instead.

I honestly think a lot of people just do it out of ignorance. The first group is so pervasive that I think a lot of people just legitimtately think CCP is the correct term without knowing better.

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 months ago

I also think a majority of people do it because they genuinely believe thats the proper way to say the name and its abbreviation, although the way it started is more nefarious. Maybe “nefarious” is a bit dramatic but it is extremely annoying especially when people in politics that interact with the CPC a lot should know better, and they probably do but say the party name wrong just to be spiteful.

[–] thefreepenguinalt@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 months ago

But in Germany, the DKP and KPD are 2 different orgs

[–] cubaenjoyer@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think it is:

  1. to make similar to Soviet Union's name;
  2. Piss of China for having a formal name.
[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 6 months ago

I think it started as 1, but I'm confident that no lib knows about the CCCP anymore. It's all tradition and spite now

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Interesting, I never made the connection to the CCCP… I guess it could have started that way and then devolved into what it is now.

[–] darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Racism is a part of it, they're not the communist party of China, they're the Chinese Communist (party), playing up the yellow peril and the red threat at once and then dropping off with the party part at the end which they couldn't care less about. It centers and racializes it. We're not just fighting commies, we're fighting Chinese commies.

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 months ago

I definitely think racism is a big part of it, but now I wonder if they do the same to other communist parties.