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(via Up With “Progressives”! Down With Socialists! American Prospect)
this reminds me of seeing the list of ‘unparliamentary language’ in Dáil Éireann, or the Irish parliament, again:
“He [speaker/Ceann Comhairle, Sean Barrett] wasn’t wasn’t in the chair when Tipperary Independent Mattie McGrath used the word “sh*te” in a recent debate on septic tanks, and Green TD Paul Gogarty’s four-letter outburst [as covered here previously] took place in the previous Dáil.
However, Barrett is determined to halt this development in its tracks and he warns that a directive will be introduced specifically banning these expressions.
“The use of that sort of language demeans the House,” he said.
Surprisingly, the words in question are not currently on the banned list but there are plans to update it for the first time since 2006.
The existing list of forbidden words includes: brat, buffoon, chancer, communist, corner boy, coward, fascist, gurrier, guttersnipe, hypocrite, rat, scumbag, scurrilous and yahoo.”
on a serious note, it seems to me that the research above conflates ‘terms’ with ‘labels’ - as even though each of those words (apart from perhaps the amorphous and essentially meaningless ‘progressive’) are broadly defined throughout the political sciences, the question isn’t asking about ideology, but identity. sometimes I have more sympathy for socialism as a (broad) ideology than willingness to adopt it as my political identity, and sometimes rather the opposite. but that’s why I prefer the right/left division - it’s so broad as to not really be ideological (which is why pedants always try to excuse themselves from it, or it from the entire body politic) but simple enough to form the basic characterisation of political identity. and that’s why I’m always mystified that, pace socialist-bashing, the American Left doesn’t really define itself as such - preferring the anodyne ‘liberal’ or self-serving ‘progressive’.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxa6vaFAmL1qatp9zo1_400.png)
(via Up With “Progressives”! Down With Socialists! American Prospect)
this reminds me of seeing the list of ‘unparliamentary language’ in Dáil Éireann, or the Irish parliament, again:
“He [speaker/Ceann Comhairle, Sean Barrett] wasn’t wasn’t in the chair when Tipperary Independent Mattie McGrath used the word “sh*te” in a recent debate on septic tanks, and Green TD Paul Gogarty’s four-letter outburst [as covered here previously] took place in the previous Dáil.
However, Barrett is determined to halt this development in its tracks and he warns that a directive will be introduced specifically banning these expressions.
“The use of that sort of language demeans the House,” he said.
Surprisingly, the words in question are not currently on the banned list but there are plans to update it for the first time since 2006.
The existing list of forbidden words includes: brat, buffoon, chancer, communist, corner boy, coward, fascist, gurrier, guttersnipe, hypocrite, rat, scumbag, scurrilous and yahoo.”
on a serious note, it seems to me that the research above conflates ‘terms’ with ‘labels’ - as even though each of those words (apart from perhaps the amorphous and essentially meaningless ‘progressive’) are broadly defined throughout the political sciences, the question isn’t asking about ideology, but identity. sometimes I have more sympathy for socialism as a (broad) ideology than willingness to adopt it as my political identity, and sometimes rather the opposite. but that’s why I prefer the right/left division - it’s so broad as to not really be ideological (which is why pedants always try to excuse themselves from it, or it from the entire body politic) but simple enough to form the basic characterisation of political identity. and that’s why I’m always mystified that, pace socialist-bashing, the American Left doesn’t really define itself as such - preferring the anodyne ‘liberal’ or self-serving ‘progressive’.
