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Post #1165256

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CatBus
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Date created
30-Jan-2018, 1:41 PM

darth_ender said:

CatBus said:

darth_ender said:

CatBus said:

darth_ender said:

Democrat Party

You can do better.

I’d like to know what you are taking issue with

Calling people by their preferred names is a sign of the most basic level of respect, and bothering to learn their preferred name is part of that. You don’t have to call Republicans “Rethuglicans” to be disrespectful. In Sci-Fi terms, When Doctor Who insists on calling Mickey “Ricky”, it’s a sign of disrespect, even if there’s nothing insulting about the name “Ricky” per se and it could have been an honest mistake the first time.

Forgive my obliviousness to what you’re referring to, but do members of the Democrat Party not prefer to have their party referred to as the Democrat Party?

Again, perhaps the offending context would be clarifying. You’ve removed the rest of the sentence.

JEDIT: Rereading my post, I only say Democrat Party once, and I don’t know how I misused it.

Well, the Democrat Party was a Turkish political party from the early 20th Century. I believe it’s defunct, but if it still has any members, they probably do prefer their party to be referred to as the Democrat Party.

However, I believe you were referring instead to the Democratic Party in the United States. Two letters does make a difference.