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vlyons

(10,252 posts)
Wed Aug 2, 2023, 04:00 PM Aug 2023

Degenerate

I find myself using the adjective "degenerate" to describe everything Trump and everything about the current GOP. As in degenerate congress person, degenerate policy, degenerate speech, degenerate times, degenerate Fox News, etc.

I invite you to do the same.

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thebigidea

(13,582 posts)
3. I'm not a fan. That's what the 4chan set calls any LGBT content in media
Wed Aug 2, 2023, 04:12 PM
Aug 2023

I'm sure they got it from the Nazis and the famous "degenerate art" exhibition.

keep_left

(3,223 posts)
4. That's the problem. Alt-right fascism appropriated that term, or rather resurrected it...
Wed Aug 2, 2023, 04:45 PM
Aug 2023

...from historical fascist regimes which sprinkled it liberally throughout their propaganda. The "4chan set", which I often refer to as "Reddit/4chan/8chan/8kun/whatever-the-hell-they-call-it-now", doesn't just reserve the term "degeneracy" for LGBT content; they use it for anything they hate--and they hate a lot of things. A large number of the alt-right are sympathetic to incel ideology or are incels themselves, and their whitest-hot hate is reserved for "feminist degeneracy", whatever that is. They love posting anti-feminist memes on places like Reddit. The current alt-right dustup over the Barbie movie is a good example of what they call "degeneracy".

"Degenerate" has really become an alt-right catchall term for "whatever I'm directing my free-floating rage at today".

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