I've been seeing this totally organic discourse popping up in 
comments. They found a new silver bullet that allows them to ignore anything being said
Democrats clutching pearls instead of fighting fascism is going to get fascism faster, and it will be all the fault of leftists somehow
It's been a thing for a while now.
Republicans use "Democrat" as an adjective instead of "Democratic" basically to say that the party isn't actually democratic.
Of course, they're not wrong on that, but they also aren't democratic.
Convert it to White Maoist Standard English: DemonKKKrap
They've been doin' this for awhile now. Maybe it's gotten more popular, IDK.
I just started noticing it being called a slur like a week ago. They've been using it as an indicator that you're a secret double Russian for a little while now
I think the term originally came from a Republican-funded focus group that found that audiences respond more negatively to "democrat party" than "democratic party." I avoid using it myself because it comes off as in-group signaling for chuds.
okay but isn't Democratic an adjective and Democrat a noun? Doesn't even make sense grammatically.
Republicans use “Democrat” as an adjective. That’s the “slur”. It’s more like a dogwhistle or ingroup speech than anything. Kind of like how sometimes chuds here give themselves away by saying “straight white male” instead of “cishet white dude”
I am a person with unfortunately exposed weak-points.
(By exposed I mean not protected by all the bone and fleshy bits that protect the rest of my vital organs)
It is grammatically valid.
"The <adjective> Party" means the party that values the principles of <adjective>.
"The <noun> Party" is the party comprised of <nouns>. The "Carpenter Party" means the party comprised of carpenters. The "Plumber party" means the party comprised of plumbers.
"The Democratic Party" is the party that values the principals of Democracy.
"The Democrat Party" is the party comprised of Democrats.
Denouncing the Democratic Party means denouncing the principals of Democracy. Denouncing the Democrat party means denouncing the people who call themselves Democrats.
I thought this post was about reddit getting mad that the word "Democrat" was used at all to describe a member of the Democratic Party, and I was making the point that of course they do, no one's gonna call a member of the Democratic Party a "Democratic." But people explained what this post was about below.
I like this bypass.
Long: "the donkey-brand faction of the U.S. mono-party"
Medium: "donkey-brained liberals"
Short: "donkeys"
Associated fan/voter base: "donkey fans"
Some of the things that are great about it:
- You can just substitute "elephant" for "donkey" to emphasize that literally the only difference is branding.
- No need to capitalize it even if you're being grammatically correct, because it's not a proper noun.
- They chose their stupid mascot; now they can live with it.
I mean, when the genocide fans are screaming "FOUR MORE YEARS" I feel like we're not very far from the clothes flying off....
It's a good way of avoiding associating a neoliberal party with democracy,
I wish there was a decent one for the Republican party, since there have been many cool types of republicans throughout history and the US one sucks.
Yeah it’s this false dichotomy brainworm where because Republicans have done this as a slight to democrats it must be a slur.
it's not a slur it's a shibboleth for Rush Limbaugh listeners.
you fool.
Well since apparently you can just call any word you don't like a slur, I hereby declare that calling the American corporate oligarch party "democratic" is a slur to the concept of democracy.
Crackers want to be victimized sooooo badly.
Democrat is a slur to these people
Oh ... oh no... this isn't new. This always gets trotted out before the elections.
Demon-Rat
Demon-Rat-Ick
