In art, 'impressionism' used to be an insult #linguistics #semiotics #language #politics #history

[StuckUnderTheCovers]

I think the Andrew Jackass is a funny pun

[texture]

How does no one here care that the phrase "a fine ass" was used in a serious political setting?

[kyuutakitsune]

"A fine ass committee" has aged great

[jimbeanz]

“Reclaimed the symbol” vs “control the narrative over their self image” -they’re the same two pictures

[jamesallen]

Before Christianity was called "Christianity" it was called "The Way" and the term Christian was meant to mock early Christians before they used the term themselves.

The same thing also happened with the Enlightenment, originally it was used as an insult meant to mock Enlightenment philosophers but was later adopted by them.

[jwanbesande]

In 1993, Melody Maker published a negative review of an electronic band named Darling calling their music a "daft punky thrash". That band would later rename themselves to Daft Punk in honor of the review.

[snoxwashere]

Reclaiming insults is as old as American politics itself: Yankee Doodle started as an insult towards the fashion senses of American soldiers, but quickly turned into a song of national pride

[salimkhd]

The term "Prime Minister" was first used to mock Robert Walpole and call him tyrannical like the absolute monarchy in France was. It was based on an old Catholic minister in France who called himself that to act above other ministers. Since by the time Robert Walpole, UK was big into the idea of Liberty over absolutely monarchy, calling Robert Walpole the title used by a french minister was the way to call him tyrannical. But eventually, it stuck, and is now the official term for leaders of many countries

[CedanyTheAlaskan]

YOU THINK YOU FEEL OUT OF A COCONUT TREE!?
Is still hilarious

[sonofmixit]

This actually happened in the uk too. The Conservative Party was nicknamed the toris, which is an Irish word for theif, by a political opponent in the 1800s and they use it to refer to themselves today

[SoughtAnarchy]

Punk was used to derogatorily talk about the new genre of (primarily poor & working class) kids starting bands, typically starting rowdy shows, dressing "weird", etc.

News & media & people would refer to the kids as punks (i.e. hoodlum, ruffian, etc) and the scene in early 1970s just kinda took the term and started to run with it.

[roygalazka]

Thank you. I have been saying for years that political cartoons were the original meme but no one took it seriously.

[God-King-Yhwach_The_Almighty]

I always thought it was because donkeys are guides and support society, while elephants are strong war machines.

[j.r.]

The coconut emoji is not a “powerful symbol” it’s definitely still a joke😭😭

[calebhooper]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone use the coconut emoji even once

[apollo]

What iv taken from this is that the two big political parties in murica have fursonas

[storybuff]

It's called "Reappropriation of Stigmatizing Labels". Fun facts : the words "christian", "protestant", "impressionism" (the art movement) and queers are too

[kakahass]

"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps" used to be a socialist insult for people who thought rising in the capitalist system was possible (Since y'know it's physically impossible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps) but then it got adopted to mean the exact opposite of its original meaning.

[LuxLoser]

"A powerful symbol of her campaign"

Is this the "control the narrative of self image" part in action?

[BradleyZS]

Politicians always trying desperately to not seem out of touch.