rumschlumpel@feddit.org 6 days ago
alternative rock is fine
In my language, ‘alternative’ is somewhat synonymous with ‘progressive’. Is that not a thing in English, too? We rarely have an original thought when it comes to words like this.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 6 days ago
alternative rock is fine
In my language, ‘alternative’ is somewhat synonymous with ‘progressive’. Is that not a thing in English, too? We rarely have an original thought when it comes to words like this.
BoycottPro@lemm.ee 6 days ago
That’s a good point about alternative rock. I changed the title from usually to sometimes, maybe usually was too much.
I’ve never thought about the word alternative being synonymous with progressive, I tend of think of as meaning against the grain or against the mainstream but in practice sometimes it just means bullshit like in the title. For example RT calls themselves “alternative media” but they’re really just propaganda slop.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 6 days ago
I think there has been a certain amount of cultural change in the rightwing - used to be they just considered themselves the status quo upholders, the ones who were subversive were hippies, educated-but-not-rich city-dwellers, artists etc… Now that more progressive forces became somewhat mainstream, major parts of the rightwing have adopted a more subversive identity and messaging.