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I'm not certain this is what happened, but are you aware that "cultural Marxism" specifically is a right wing conspiracy and not synonymous with being a tankie. Because to me a "cultural Marxism" tag on a post like that is almost certainly ironic. I could see someone mistakenly thinking troll since your comment doesn't make sense to someone familiar with the term.
Nah I didn't know, I can never follow all these trends where words have different meanings than the actual meanings of the words.
It's from r/196 on reddit. Short version is "cultural marxism" is the new term for "cultural bolshevism" (dogwhistle for jews in WWII era) and 196 stole it to use ironically for "this is what the left wants" style shitposts.
This is another problem with all these ironic postings. They end up being repeated by people who don't understand them, and then we get into these situations. I really dislike when people use fashy dogwhistles like "degenerate" and "cultural marxism" ironically.
Agreed, it also makes things very problematic when people come in and start using them unironically as well. Really unless people are going to reclaim dogwhistles or otherwise harmful terms, they just shouldn't be using them at all.
this helped me understand thank you
Ty I appreciate being informed like this.
Its not exactly a new term, but its become more commonplace since the right wing online content mill started running with it. Actually going to recommend not googling it, because you will be inundated primarily with right wing propaganda. There are a number of good sources who have covered the conspiracy and the online personalities that push it.
That's literally been it's only meaning, a propaganda term meant to paint everyone left of the Republicans as mass murdering totalitarians for insisting we treat black people with dignity.
It could also be marxism from a cultural perspective, you ever consider that?