Meh. You can keep your hate groups and race-based identity bigots. They’s yours uncontested. I’ll take the independents through left-wing loonies as a big enough slice! And yes keeping them all together will be a challenge. Early yet to see who excites.
What a ridiculous hijack.
What’s the deal with the far right misstating the name of the party? To me, it just reflects badly on the person saying it.
It’s a deliberate slur meant to denigrate the party and its supporters. I’ve asked this particular poster many times to refer to the party by its actual name rather than this deliberate slur, but he’s always refused.
I’m not sure that it’s a slur though. It’s more of a way to make the name of the party more neutral rather than make the name deliberately negative. There’s nothing negative about being called a Democrat. So a ‘Democrat Party’ isn’t negative, it just removes the positiveness of ‘Democratic’ a name which seems to imply that other parties are not. If I were to name a party ‘The Morally Correct Defenders against Evil Party’ It wouldn’t necessarily be a slur if someone chooses not to say ‘Vote against the Morally Correct Defenders Against Evil and vote for me instead!’ and instead says ‘Vote against the MCDE’
More importantly, we should be prepared to call out intolerance and bigotry without fearing that the Other Side will take advantage of kerfuffles like this.
The rapidity with which a number of Democratic leaders denounced Omar’s statements is heartening. The great majority of American Jews (whatever their views on Israel) support Democratic/progressive candidates, and I don’t see that changing much anytime soon.
I’m on record here as calling for the curtailment of U.S. support to Israel’s military until it agrees to an indefinite halt on expanding housing in terrritory that will likely be part of a future Palestinian state, so I’m far from an open-ended backer of Israel. Lots of people make valid critiques of that country without falling into veiled or overt bigotry, and should always keep a wary eye on those who do.
Speak severely to Republicans
And beat them when they sleazes
They only do this to annoy
Because they know it teases
(after Lewis Carroll)
Speaking as a life long Democrat, I don’t feel remotely denigrated by “Democrat Party,” and I’m honestly at a loss as to how I possibly could be.
You can read about it here:
It’s a deliberate effort to needle (I’d call it real-world trolling). Just a little tiny thing, and also a little tiny thing for me to say “that’s shitty and you should stop doing it”. YMMV.
No, I’m familiar with the argument.
It’s just that it’s a really stupid argument.
Think of it like someone saying “Barack HUSEIN Obama.” It tells you a lot about the person.
I disagree, but whatever. You don’t have to feel the same way.
Honestly, I think it tells you more about the person complaining.
What does it say about the person who complains about others complaining about it? 
I’m curious: are you saying it’s too slight to get worked up over— a position with which I agree— or denying that it is [mis]used intentionally by [many] Republicans specifically to avoid associating the Democratic party with democracy/democratic principles?
IOW, what exactly is the “argument” that you find stupid?
emphasis mine
Is the bolded sentence from Omar or Jackmannii?
So if I support any country other than the USA I’m a traitor?
That’s not from Omar, unless I’m missing something.
I personally don’t care whether the ‘ic’ suffix is present or not.
But some people — including at least one still posting at SDMB — proudly omit the ‘ic’ just because they delight in giving offense. I find it quite annoying to realize that the enemies of American democracy stoop to such childish measures, and that such intellectual sloth succeeds in gulling 35% of the voting populace.
Unless Omar has access to the same raised eyebrow emoji that we have here.
Mostly the former, but also a pinch of the latter. “Members of this group are called X, therefore, it’s the X group,” is a pretty common construction in English, and I suspect the majority of times this is used by Republicans, it’s nothing more nefarious than that. To the extent that it is used as a deliberate insult, it’s such a hilariously toothless attempt at insult that I’m genuinely baffled that anyone even notices it, let alone is legitimately upset about it.
Mostly, that they’re tired of watching other liberals play into the stereotype that we get upset over inconsequential and/or imaginary slights, particularly when it gives conservatives cover to dismiss instances of genuinely insulting terminology as left-wing over-sensitivity.