So, I've heard the term x-adjacent to basically mean "this person disagrees with my views even though he's not y thing I hate". The problem is, where was this first used after 2014 GG?
I've never, EVER heard this term used unironically until around 2016-ish, and it's ONLY ever fucking used by leftists to shove people who are moderates into imaginary groups. A kind of scarlet letter to brand you as a bad person without directly saying it.
Like I legit want to know when it started being used - it's now part of the left wing newspeak to attack others for wrongthink, so I'm wondering was this used in an academic paper somewhere, or was it popularized on degenerate sites like Tumblr or Twitter or what. I am legitimately curious because it drives me absolutely nuts because the only fucking time I used this term before was to talk about things PHYSICALLY being next to each other, never as an ad hominem attack for an ideology.
It’s subjugation via association. Also known as the “kill/jail anyone who dissents” method the left loves
Commie bullshit. It was probably from some leftist groupthinktank that pushed it to the NPCs and it took off.
I just call them what they are, and I don't need them to be retard adjacent. They're just retarded.
Agreed - I'm 99% sure you'll find the term in some race/feminist studies textbook in the last 30 years.
Same with "Critical Race Theory" which has actually been written on in radical communist think tanks for decades.
But the "*-adjacent" verbage isn't rational or logical - it's purely political/debate speak as a means of deflection or binding in a debate. EG "You're evil because you're white-adjacent" "My characters are good because they're hobbit-adjacent" You find the same techniques discussed in Scientology and EST schools in the 70s. They're OLD techniques used specifically for subterfuge and mind control.
You don't think Lucas created the concept when he had obi-wan say "You don't need to see his identification" - mind trickery is one of the oldest known political sciences.
Well, obviously they had their origin elsewhere. Struggle sessions had their origins in prior decades or centuries, etc. Nothing is new under the sun when it comes to propaganda and fuckery.
I was strictly speaking about the term itself.
I agree the VERBAGE is recent - but this is just a repackaged concept for fast food style consumption or our twitter age.
It's just word association. "My stuff doesn't suck"
Commies corrupt language, you know that.
If anyone would know the origins, it would be James Lindsey. I don't see anything on his new discources site, so he might not have talked about it before.
He touches on white-adjacent here, but he doesn't explore the concept in great detail.
I'll ask him in his next podcast. Sometimes he hangs out in the Premiere comments. It's a term that bugs the fuck out of me because I've never seen it used unironically the way the leftists use it.
Good, if you find something out, post an update. I'd like to know, too, now that you got me curious. :p
I don’t remember hearing it til after 16 election. I first started hearing it when describing a black or Hispanic person with right off center views. Since at the time they couldn’t say they were white supremacists they called them adjacent. Now we are all white supremacists
First place I heard it was here in the mockumentary "Real Bros of Simi Valley": https://youtu.be/Qp1oN23xotM
Bitch-adjacent shit was on those house-hunting shows because it used to be a realty term.