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by ferzul
2174 days ago
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It's not an American cultural norm. It's just English grammar. Things which are written as compounds in other languages often have a space in English, and English does not distinguish between word classes so that Noun-Noun compounds and Adjective-Noun phrases are ambiguous. But if you hear “white nationalism” five times, when you hear “white nationalist” you don't hear it compositionally as “(white) (nationalist)” but as “(white nation)alist” - someone who advocates for a white nation. “White nationalism” is a word. It has a different meaning than Nazism in my experience, so calling for substitution would be wrong. For instance, a person could support a multi-party white nationalist pseudo-democracy like the US during slavery. But nazism is going to be a form of dictatorship. |
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(religious whitenation-alism)[0]
That's kind of unfortunate because I read it as just the opposite of:
non-religious colored globalists
In hindsight it is possible to see, but right there and then it seemed obvious, and I guess we should come up with a better term.
Also, for what it is worth: I might have been able to catch that if "religious" hadn't been thrown in there.
> “White nationalism” is a word. It has a different meaning than Nazism in my experience, so calling for substitution would be wrong.
Good point.
We could need some clear words and definitions for this as I'm fairly convinced I'm not the only one to misunderstand the wording, kind of like a DSL for discussing bad ideas.
A positive side effect of this whole thing is that I am fairly certain I actually got to feel in my body what it feels like to be triggered :-D
If I should ask certain other people here to learn something from this thing it would be to be precise, and to not alienate people for no good reason, because I am fairly certain a number of people here would say I was dog-whisteling or something to that effect while I was legitimately confused.
[0]: Although when white-nation-alism (to be very clear) becomes religious about itself I think it is some form of nazism.