Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by imtringued 933 days ago
Please don't use socialism as a word for "thing I don't like".

I am so tired of this. No, I am not siding with socialists. I despise them, but I don't make the mistake of blaming bad things like me stubbing my toe on "socialism" just because I don't like a group of people.

Brutalism isn't socialism. I hope you will remember that.

1 comments

Brutalism and socialism are so intertwined, it’s like saying women and people aren’t the same thing. Technically true but it’s still a stupid point.
Most brutalists might have been into socialism but definitely not most socialists are into brutalism. So blaming socialists for the failures of brutalism is logically wrong.