Yes, yes liberals are clueless about power and the nature of the state, violence etc. Little digression:
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What is added to the title here by having that phrase? The title without the phrase is just fine, more to the point in fact.
Why exactly are we as Marxists using Christian phraseology in a Marxist space? Why are we perpetuating and elevating this particular western dogma?
These people are nothing of the sort to us. Even ironically this rubs me the wrong way. I couldn’t care less if you want to post like this among non-political friends but I never would.
I’m nobody’s brother or sister in this nonsense. That’s Cornel West talk, that’s snake-oil talk. That’s preacher talk.
Instead of perpetuating this nonsense why not start our own phraseology. “My fellow prole” for instance for those who share class interests.
Think an atheist who came from an abusive religious household likes seeing this kind of language and normalization? Likes seeing repeating of the kind of language abusers cloaked their verbal venom in? What about Muslims? Jews?
You’re not secularizing the name Christ and phrases invoking it. You’re just injecting religious supremacy of the dominant religion into everyday phrasing, into everyday evaluations of relations between people.
And it’s not something that insular Marxists on lemmy came up with, it’s not a secret hexbear code phrase, it’s used earnestly by Christians and somewhat less earnestly by liberals and others all over social media who saw the Christians using it and for some reason (perhaps even a plot by Christian propaganda groups to be honest) started doing so themselves.
They’re happy to be dominant in the sphere of ideas. They crow among each other about the notion that even people of other religions cry “jesus” or something when they stub their toe and see it as validation that deep down everyone knows their god is king, their dogma is real but they’re just in denial to “sin”.
Yes, yes liberals are clueless about power and the nature of the state, violence etc. Little digression:
spoiler
What is added to the title here by having that phrase? The title without the phrase is just fine, more to the point in fact.
Why exactly are we as Marxists using Christian phraseology in a Marxist space? Why are we perpetuating and elevating this particular western dogma?
These people are nothing of the sort to us. Even ironically this rubs me the wrong way. I couldn’t care less if you want to post like this among non-political friends but I never would.
I’m nobody’s brother or sister in this nonsense. That’s Cornel West talk, that’s snake-oil talk. That’s preacher talk.
Instead of perpetuating this nonsense why not start our own phraseology. “My fellow prole” for instance for those who share class interests.
Think an atheist who came from an abusive religious household likes seeing this kind of language and normalization? Likes seeing repeating of the kind of language abusers cloaked their verbal venom in? What about Muslims? Jews?
You’re not secularizing the name Christ and phrases invoking it. You’re just injecting religious supremacy of the dominant religion into everyday phrasing, into everyday evaluations of relations between people.
And it’s not something that insular Marxists on lemmy came up with, it’s not a secret hexbear code phrase, it’s used earnestly by Christians and somewhat less earnestly by liberals and others all over social media who saw the Christians using it and for some reason (perhaps even a plot by Christian propaganda groups to be honest) started doing so themselves.
They’re happy to be dominant in the sphere of ideas. They crow among each other about the notion that even people of other religions cry “jesus” or something when they stub their toe and see it as validation that deep down everyone knows their god is king, their dogma is real but they’re just in denial to “sin”.
My brother/sister in christ is just a meme not meant seriously.
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