11-27-2002, 12:41 AM
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What does it mean when a nasty fencer calls a nice fencer a "communist"? Has it replaced being called a "homeschooler" as as a slur?
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11-27-2002, 08:09 AM
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| Not knowing the context, I'm not sure what it would mean--other than the one saying it is ignorant, insensitive, or both.
(I didn't know "homeschooler" was a slur, either. I guess I've led a sheltered life...) | |
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11-27-2002, 08:28 AM
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| There are a few usual cases where I use the word 'communist':
First, someone who has not seen/does not enjoy "The Princess Bride".
Second, someone who has not seen/does not enjoy Bond movies.
Both are simply American...to not like them makes you a communist.
I am, of course, joking.
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11-28-2002, 01:15 PM
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Wow, Swordsy. That was deep.
Real deep.
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11-28-2002, 03:19 PM
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| In a american parlance? I don't know - enemy of the state? Idiot?
Most Americans that I've met do not know what a communist is.
There are quite a few on this board that [I suspect] do.
PS I'm not being nasty when I sat that. | |
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11-28-2002, 06:51 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by Rayen
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Wow, Swordsy. That was deep.
Real deep. | Ah, but deep WHAT?? 
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11-30-2002, 02:24 AM
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| Communists tend to be fantastic fencers, so maybe it wasn't an insult at all.
It could have been something like, "Wow! That was super, you little communist you!"
But then, maybe some of you pinkos wouldn't understand that.  | |
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12-01-2002, 05:09 PM
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| I use the term communist while referring to someone who is overally democratic.
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12-01-2002, 05:42 PM
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| Why would that be? Communism, the concept has very little to do with democracy, the concept. Democracy espouses the belief that the voice of the people determines the direction of the government. It is essentially a political concept. Communism is an economic concept, the belief that the society's economic standing improves if the economic machinations were run via communistic tenets (do your job to fulfil the society's coffers instead of your own, in a sense).
In order to operate the communistic economic plan, one would probably need a communistic political system. Some communistic political systems are very democratic. Most are just totalitarianism warmed over (mainly, I suspect, because prior governments in that country or society had been totalitarian, with a king or ruler, and the society just don't know better to change from that model).
Of course, the communistic economic model has been shown to be critically flawed as application of game theory can show clearly where the system is broken.
Nowadays, the concept of "communism" as an economic policy is pretty much done for, except for minor examples and experiments in various microcosmic society. There, among a group of 10 people or so, a communistic economic plan may very well work. However, it's demonstratively not scalable to country-sized populations.
The major political communist systems were never really communistic as practiced by those in the microcosmic scale. They were always totalitarian.
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12-01-2002, 08:02 PM
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| I was just making a joke.
What I meant was people who think the government should have more and more power. Their are a few people I know who feel the government should have so much power that it woiuld almost be a communist society. And these people also feel that the government should help so many people, through taxes and things of that mature that it is again almost communist because teh rich become poorer and the poor become reicher, in their mind, creating "equality". This is the main problem with communism, that people cannot advancce so they do not try to. Which is essentialy what these people I am talking about fell the USA should be. Again it was just a joke, although a bad one.
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12-02-2002, 07:21 PM
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| Hi!
Mo wrote:
Communist
What does it mean when a nasty fencer calls a nice fencer a "communist"? Has it replaced being called a "homeschooler" as as a slur?
Well, the obvious punishment should be to be beaten by Marx!
Have a nice time!
Peter Gustafsson | |
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12-02-2002, 11:13 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by PeterGustafsson
Hi!
Mo wrote:
Communist
What does it mean when a nasty fencer calls a nice fencer a "communist"? Has it replaced being called a "homeschooler" as as a slur?
Well, the obvious punishment should be to be beaten by Marx!
Have a nice time!
Peter Gustafsson | ROTFLMAO! | |
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12-04-2002, 05:50 PM
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Well, the obvious punishment should be to be beaten by Marx!
| Michael, Leslie or Bob?
I sometimes call anything/one giving me problems "communist" or "facist" or "democrat". Most times it illicits a chuckle out of whoever is standing near. If I'm really pissed, I'll call them a "teasip" (gotta be a Texas Aggie to really appreciate that one!). Right now my toll house cookies that I'm baking aren't working out right, so they're m***** F******! Still taste good, though. Just don't look right. Sigh.
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