I wonder if it’s possible for progressives to reclaim the word “welfare” as something positive that we need to work toward, e.g. “Welfare for All”, “Welfare for the People”, “Universal Welfare”.
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I wonder if it’s possible for progressives to reclaim the word “welfare” as something positive that we need to work toward, e.g. “Welfare for All”, “Welfare for the People”, “Universal Welfare”.
How the hell did conservatives take “welfare” and turn it into something hated? Like, why do you NOT want people to be well? What the fuck is wrong with you?
If government doesn’t provide welfare for everyone, then what the hell is the point of government?
@drahardja from the same people who have recently brought you "anti-antifascist" without any sense of irony
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I wonder if it’s possible for progressives to reclaim the word “welfare” as something positive that we need to work toward, e.g. “Welfare for All”, “Welfare for the People”, “Universal Welfare”.
How the hell did conservatives take “welfare” and turn it into something hated? Like, why do you NOT want people to be well? What the fuck is wrong with you?
If government doesn’t provide welfare for everyone, then what the hell is the point of government?
I have a pinned post for exactly this:
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The entire #MAGA / #GOP / #Republican world view is constructed on a patchwork of co-opted, stolen and distorted leftist political history
But that's the way of it: when you have no coherent response for a leftist political concept, steal it, invert it, and make it into something it never was
"woke"?
To be 'woke' itself was a Black Power concept: to be self-aware and understand how the Negro had been, and was still to this day, oppressed by the white race, even after slavery was supposedly abolished
CNN has it better:
“Woke” is tied to the idea of specific awareness of mechanisms of anti-Blackness. It’s more about the directive to be awake. In the philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey published in 1923, we see the phrase, “Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! And let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation.”
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@drahardja from the same people who have recently brought you "anti-antifascist" without any sense of irony
@Cregg Conservatives are *way* better than progressives at messaging, sadly. They can take any dumb shit and coordinate their army of talking heads to repeat it on every screen a conservative looks at.
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@Catfish_Man “Welfare, not warfare”
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@mlazz All the more reason to take the term back and use it proudly, and demand those who oppose it to explain themselves.
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I wonder if it’s possible for progressives to reclaim the word “welfare” as something positive that we need to work toward, e.g. “Welfare for All”, “Welfare for the People”, “Universal Welfare”.
How the hell did conservatives take “welfare” and turn it into something hated? Like, why do you NOT want people to be well? What the fuck is wrong with you?
If government doesn’t provide welfare for everyone, then what the hell is the point of government?
I should brush up on my Illustrator skills and make a UNIVERSAL WELFARE logo
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I wonder if it’s possible for progressives to reclaim the word “welfare” as something positive that we need to work toward, e.g. “Welfare for All”, “Welfare for the People”, “Universal Welfare”.
How the hell did conservatives take “welfare” and turn it into something hated? Like, why do you NOT want people to be well? What the fuck is wrong with you?
If government doesn’t provide welfare for everyone, then what the hell is the point of government?
@drahardja It's the same way they turned "woke" into a pejorative.
Nobody thinks the opposite of "woke" is staying asleep and ignorant, even though it is.
Nobody thinks the opposite of "welfare" is misery and illness, even though it is.
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I wonder if it’s possible for progressives to reclaim the word “welfare” as something positive that we need to work toward, e.g. “Welfare for All”, “Welfare for the People”, “Universal Welfare”.
How the hell did conservatives take “welfare” and turn it into something hated? Like, why do you NOT want people to be well? What the fuck is wrong with you?
If government doesn’t provide welfare for everyone, then what the hell is the point of government?
@drahardja why would the government be the government of everything. As long as they are not actively preventing people from accessing beneficial things, then we are okay.
The hijacking of words for usage other than the traditional dictionary meanings confuses everyone. We cannot even form sentences anymore without it being rendered as political.
Maybe governent should stop linguistic destruction.
Every name they choose re-defines terms, seemingly.
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@mlazz @drahardja @jrdepriest Nope, just basic Luthern doctrine which state the money you have is a sign of God’s favor. Less money, youndid something bad to deserve it…
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I wonder if it’s possible for progressives to reclaim the word “welfare” as something positive that we need to work toward, e.g. “Welfare for All”, “Welfare for the People”, “Universal Welfare”.
How the hell did conservatives take “welfare” and turn it into something hated? Like, why do you NOT want people to be well? What the fuck is wrong with you?
If government doesn’t provide welfare for everyone, then what the hell is the point of government?
@drahardja
Conservatives love corporate welfare. They will do everything possible to take the money off the table and pull ladders up behind them. -
I wonder if it’s possible for progressives to reclaim the word “welfare” as something positive that we need to work toward, e.g. “Welfare for All”, “Welfare for the People”, “Universal Welfare”.
How the hell did conservatives take “welfare” and turn it into something hated? Like, why do you NOT want people to be well? What the fuck is wrong with you?
If government doesn’t provide welfare for everyone, then what the hell is the point of government?
@drahardja Should you really worry about the language of the kind of people who are so illiterate that they use the word #liberal as an insult?
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