Blithely adopting a term that seems to have been coined just for the purposes of doing a smear job makes you look like either a useful idiot or an enemy agent.
I guess sort of the point of this post is that, in the broadest sense, the political critique of so-called “TESCREAL” lacks imagination — about the possible connections between these -isms and social justice.
Blithely adopting a term that seems to have been coined just for the purposes of doing a smear job makes you look like either a useful idiot or an enemy agent.
I don’t think there’s anything inherently disparaging about the acronym.
There might not be, but it’s not a thing in vacuum, it was coined with political intent and it’s tangled with that intent.
I guess sort of the point of this post is that, in the broadest sense, the political critique of so-called “TESCREAL” lacks imagination — about the possible connections between these -isms and social justice.