Do you beleive that Leon Trotsky invented the word "racism"?

[richard_daily]

If so, please back up your belief in this thread...

Busybody believes it...

This is his current signature:
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[lemonbread]

Wikipedia says: "An urban legend has developed in certain quarters that the term "racism" was coined by Leon Trotsky. This is based on the fact that, in 1930, Trotsky used the word "rasisti" in his text The History of the Russian Revolution, and the term "racism" appears to have cropped up in English some time later in the same decade. However, what this claim ignores is the existence of the roughly equivalent term "racialism", which was in use as early as 1907 and the word "racism" itself was used in English in 1902. It should also go without saying that the abstract concepts of racial hatred and racial prejudice were recognized even further beforehand."

 

[kbate]

Why would the origin of the word matter?

 

[doowdniw]

I doubt Trotsky would have used the English word "racist" to convey a concept to the Russian masses.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Wikipedia says: "An urban legend has developed in certain quarters that the term "racism" was coined by Leon Trotsky. This is based on the fact that, in 1930, Trotsky used the word "rasisti" in his text The History of the Russian Revolution, and the term "racism" appears to have cropped up in English some time later in the same decade. However, what this claim ignores is the existence of the roughly equivalent term "racialism", which was in use as early as 1907 and the word "racism" itself was used in English in 1902. It should also go without saying that the abstract concepts of racial hatred and racial prejudice were recognized even further beforehand."

My goodness, that means Busybody is, *gasp*, a liar!

 

[richard_daily]

Why would the origin of the word matter?

Ask busybody.

 

[neci]

WTF

 

[Jennifer]

My goodness, that means Busybody is, *gasp*, a liar!

People lie on the internet?

 

[richard_daily]

People lie on the internet?

Only in government sanctioned "protest zones".

 

[Jennifer]

Only in government sanctioned "protest zones".

Is Lit considered to be one?

 

[Skiddles2014]

Who gives a flying fuck about anything that shitstain posts or says?

A fool, that's who.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Why would the origin of the word matter?

It would taint anyone who uses the word with association with a Commie.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

ask yourself this Dick, why are you a racist?

If so, please back up your belief in this thread...

Busybody believes it...

This is his current signature:
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[NeverEndingMe]

It would taint anyone who uses the word with association with a Commie.

you are poor....and will always be poor because you are a retard

 

[eyer]

If so, please back up your belief in this thread...

Busybody believes it...

Employing bb as any type of reference point...


~ pointing and laughing at little insecure dicky ~

 

[Sean]

"indigenous British people"? Ah, so it's from one of our neo-nazi far right groups. I wonder does busybody appreciate the irony of supporting people that give the Hitler salute at their meetings?

 

[Wrong Element]

It's total bullshit, especially the part about the "indigenous British people," a concept that's been moot since the fifth century. Hell, the royal family is German.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Did you know that the word 'racist' was invented by the Marxist Leon Trotsky in 1927? It was used to cudgel and bully ordinary Russians into accepting the horrible practices of the Communists.

Actually, I don't think what we would call race relations were even much of an issue in Russia at that period; and if any "ordinary Russians" objected to "the horrible practices of the Communists," any official anti-racism would have been very low on the list of such practices.

There was a "racial" divide between Jews and gentiles -- but when Stalin took over (well before 1927), the system started to become anti-Semitic anyway, so anti-racism was not something that characterized it.

 

[KingOrfeo]

It's total bullshit, especially the part about the "indigenous British people," a concept that's been moot since the fifth century. Hell, the royal family is German.

"An Englishman is a German who has forgotten that his grandmother was Welsh."

 

[NeverEndingMe]

"indigenous British people"? Ah, so it's from one of our neo-nazi far right groups. I wonder does busybody appreciate the irony of supporting people that give the Hitler salute at their meetings?

yes, you monkeys should be speaking German if it wasn't for us American's so you are....primitive

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Employing bb as any type of reference point...


~ pointing and laughing at little insecure dicky ~

Hey, Groucho.

Remember when you first came here and you had your infamous, incrementally growing "list" of members that were beneath your intellect to respond to?

BB never made that list.

~ pointing and laughing at little insecure Oak Tree Boy ~

http://www.faniq.com/images/blog/pointing-and-laughing.gif

 

[NeverEndingMe]

why are you a racist?

Hey, Groucho.

Remember when you first came here and you had your infamous, incrementally growing "list" of members that were beneath your intellect to respond to?

BB never made that list.

~ pointing and laughing at little insecure Oak Tree Boy ~

http://www.faniq.com/images/blog/pointing-and-laughing.gif

 

[richard_daily]

notice that not even busybody, the depressed donkey (eeyore) or neverending windbag will vote "yes" in the poll.

Truth and justice have prevailed.

 

[richard_daily]

Is Lit considered to be one?

Yes, lit is a government sanctioned "free speech" zone, and as such attracts all manner of geriatric, sexless old white men, who are VERY angry that their viagra isn't covered by their medicare, and even more upset that no one will fuck them.

 

[bronzeage]

notice that not even busybody, the depressed donkey (eeyore) or neverending windbag will vote "yes" in the poll.

Truth and justice have prevailed.

The critical element of every litcon is a total lack of critical thinking skills.

The "Trotski invented the word racism" is the political equivalent to "Your mother is fat." The truth, or lack of it, is irrelevant and have no perception of how boned headed stupid it makes them appear.

It's the best they can manage.