Shalom Comrades . I Have another question i wanted to talk with you .
Is about what words and phrases should and shouldn’t be used or said ?
For example , i and another Comrade where talking about a some stuff about trolls , bots , fed/cia , psyop account and communities and what not .
And this is how a new topic was brought ( see the screenshotz below ) :
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And that’s why , i need your guidance from all of you to help and correct the vocabulary of other Comrades , ( including myself )
So let’s start :
What are the words and phrases that should we as Comrades use in the first place ? . Instead of using the ones in the screenshots above mentioned ⬆️ . Can some of you please give me a list of words and phrases that are kosher ( permissible ) to say and not Asur ( prohibited ) to say ? .
For example :
the “B” word and other words that we need to get rid of our my vocabulary .
It will be very great and helpful to make a list of what words and phrases should we i use .
I hope to get an answer .
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Nazis haven’t stolen “based”. People getting worried about that sort of thing are, imo, being silly. “Based”, in my experience, is used plenty in light-hearted conversations between young communists online and offline. It usually just means “I agree with this politically” thus people of all ideologies will use it when they agree w/ something.
Getting upset over it reminds me of when I was kicked from a communist Facebook group for using “Nazi arrows”, aka
and called a closet Nazi for doing so. It’s literally no different than
>using redtext like this>for emphasisbut because of its association with 4chan, people have this kneejerk reaction against using a popular, easy to understand, at-its-core omnipolitical meme format.
Not to shout down any comrades with grievances related to certain words, but in my experience the people in forums and on social media freaking out about words and actions no-one but them deems actually offensive are just power-hungry online weirdos who want the chance to police people’s language and look for an excuse to direct attention in conversation towards them and their woker than thou ivory tower.
There are obviously words that we as revolutionaries should understand the impact of and histories behind and refrain from using, like slurs, unless one is ‘reclaiming’ them. The N word, the F word, etc. Misogynistic terminology should also be avoided like btch and whre. A lot of words a very select group of people get upset over (usually on behalf of the actually marginalized) are fine imo. I’m sorry to the anarchists, but “idiot” and “moron”, despite horribly ableist histories, are not leaving the modern lexicon any time soon, and they bear nowhere near the impact that something like the R word does in the modern day.
I would just recommend using your best judgment. A couple of things that are less obvious is the aversion to putting “-oid” after anything, like “westoid”, as it is parodying Nazi race science - “mongoloid”, etc. Based, I think, is fine.
Dictionary.com defines “based” as:
The latter expression of it being “appropriated” by the alt-right is misleading. It’s been “appropriated” by political people of all kinds, including communists. Stalin was based, Kim Il-sung was based, etc etc. Oh, you want to resurrect Yugoslavia, comrade? Fuckin’ based.
I must praise Lil B here, i never heard before of “based” being used in the context of crack addiction.
I also never before heard of Lil B, but it’s based reclamation nevertheless.
Yeah I hadn’t either, a much more positive connotation now :)
Idk anything about Lil B’s politics but I know that he has held many many twitter raffles where he’s given out hundreds of dollars to people who say they need it. Idk, charity isn’t revolutionary blah blah but he seems like an overall kind and positive dude (also has said trans rights iirc)
Yea basically it’s from a spanish word, Base(Ba-Say) and it meant when extract was pressed out of coca leaves leaving a paste of what is later made to be cocaine. People would mix this up with other nasty shit and “freebase” or smoke the base from the mixture. This is eventually how crack came to be a thing and the CIA brought it into poor predominantly black and latino neighborhoods. The show Snowfall is really good and explains a lot of this
I’ve heard ‘base head’ before. But had no idea that it was connected to ‘based’ in that way. I had assumed the political meaning was meme-ified but had started out as saying that a claim was foundational or should be respected as valuable as foundational thought. Interesting to see how language can develop.
Yea baseheads are what people refer to crack addicts as, idk how Lil B turned that into a good thing but good for him