• azimir@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    That’s part of the power of the term. Globalism is a valid term for a view about how integrated international markets foster economic and social benefits, while Globalist is often used as a racist dogwhistle. Racists often use small variations of accepted terms to conflate and low key their hatred in public venues.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      23 hours ago

      I don’t disagree with you in the North American context, but in other parts of the world you can have totally normal discussions about the merits of globalization/globalism and globalists without it being a dogwhistle. And you can be a critic of “globalism” (better understood as a configuration of imperialism) without being a racist or even for explicitly anti-racist reasons.