By this point, I suspect a lot of people who use the term don’t actually know anymore. To them it just means “the shadowy bad guys who want to ruin my life specifically”.
Okay, are we all here? Let’s discuss Jeb Blinkersen, 29, of 39 waukee way, Minnesota. Have we done anything to ruin his life lately? Looks like he got a raise recently, shit, we’ve got to get ahead of this NOW. Johnson, I want you to breed up some samples of that bat-whale-bear virus we’ve been incubating in RFK, and make sure there’s an accident. Stevens, call his boss and tell him to send the factory to China OR ELSE. Yeah, they probably won’t like the higher profit margins, but make it clear they have no choice. We’ll show Jeb to let his guard down. Good meeting everyone, let’s meet again next week about Amanda Hugenkiss, priority omega seven; Zuckerberg says she seems actually happy and she might be trying to leave Facebook.
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.
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.
“Globalist” is a racist dog whistle for Jews.
By this point, I suspect a lot of people who use the term don’t actually know anymore. To them it just means “the shadowy bad guys who want to ruin my life specifically”.
“…because I’m the main character and these ‘globalists’ know me by name”
Yep. That’s the gist of the plot.
Okay, are we all here? Let’s discuss Jeb Blinkersen, 29, of 39 waukee way, Minnesota. Have we done anything to ruin his life lately? Looks like he got a raise recently, shit, we’ve got to get ahead of this NOW. Johnson, I want you to breed up some samples of that bat-whale-bear virus we’ve been incubating in RFK, and make sure there’s an accident. Stevens, call his boss and tell him to send the factory to China OR ELSE. Yeah, they probably won’t like the higher profit margins, but make it clear they have no choice. We’ll show Jeb to let his guard down. Good meeting everyone, let’s meet again next week about Amanda Hugenkiss, priority omega seven; Zuckerberg says she seems actually happy and she might be trying to leave Facebook.
When the people responsible for ruining their lives aren’t hiding in the shadows at all.
I always read it as companies who were responsible for offshoring labor. I might be too generous though.
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.
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.
Multinational corporations?