Really nothing in the article implied that whatsoever? It's not even about that if you actively try to read between the lines. Like--"liberal as a slur" is just a daily experience of american life these days, irrespective of the details of any of your personal relationships.
You people call you 'liberal as a slur' in real life out in the world?
Regardless, projecting your narrow experiences onto 'american life' writ large is not a sound starting point for any conversation.
It is the pairing of the term 'manufacturing consent' with "'liberal' as a slur" (from the left, not right) that evokes the genocide.
One of the primary consents manufactured in the Biden years was for exactly that.
Likewise for calls to eternal slow-walked 'nuance', instead of straightforward calls for ending the gifting of weapons to the belligerent, as has been done in living memory.
There's no 'conspiracy' (per the author) at all, Biden officials are already writing memoirs about it.
> You people call you 'liberal as a slur' in real life out in the world?
I see it online... everyday? Especially if I go back to the places I used to enjoy but have had to learn to avoid. And yes, anytime I interact with friends' parents, people in my hometown, etc, it's pretty ubiquitously used as a slur. Occasionally ironically since we're a few years past peak mind-virus (I'd like to think), but, yes, all the time.
I think they were listing two unassociated examples of the "people getting radical and weird" phenomenon in that list, not pairing them. I took "manufactured consent" as referring to the Trumpish "mainstream media is all lies" stance. Seems like you invented the israel connection out of thin air. Maybe you know something about the author, but, it wasn't in the article.
Liberal/lib as a slur from a conservative means 'to the left of me' and yes, it's quite common.
Liberal as a slur from a leftist means something quite different. Prior to Trump, it would usually refer to 'third way' corporate neolibs like Clinton.
Now, it our current age, capitulation or cynical triangulation on corporate interests, Gaza, trans people, or the suffering of immigrants will earn you the slur from what I've seen. The Harris campaign did all 4, for example.
The reason I brought up Israel was the lengths the essay went to not say the issue at all. Of those four, only the genocide will get you fully burned in left leaning circles if you are caught 'both-sides'ing it. (Contrapoints is a notable public example of this). I'm assuming the author is savvy enough to know that too, given her stated history.
Likely not to their face, but I’ve absolutely had tons of people use it when talking to me as a slur for other people. Because they assumed I was like minded.
It’s absolutely used as a slur in conversation, yes.
I mean you have the Republican President of the United States publicly calling Democrats evil. People like to pretend their party (Democrats and Republicans alike) generally adheres to decency and decorum even though they demonstrably do not, but it’s especially rich for Republicans to act like they’re the party of decency in politics when they’re falling in lockstep with Donald Trump
