re: #266 Jay C

Heh.

I was just (like, 3 minutes ago) checking the Wiki for Danish PM Mette Frederiksen and noticed that some asshole had added the line “She hates Donald Trump and America” to the bio. I was pleased to see that by the time I hit “Edit” - somebody else had already changed the page.

Jeez, but Trumprrhoids are a lame lot….

ADD: especially after reading thru Frederiksen’s page: I know political orientations are interpreted differently in different countries, but she hardly seems like the “commie” the wingnuts have been slagging her as.

“Commie” doesn’t mean anything specific.

Like “nasty” it’s more of a gesture than word, a vague indication of what frame the addressed should use: that this person is not-a-person, fundamentally the opposite of Us in an antagonistic and threatening way…

…and thus fair game.

It pretty much always comes down to marking people as fair game.