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Is "Prolet" becoming an insult? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I live in Austria and noticed recently, due to my boss and colleagues using it, that the word "Prolet" is being used as a swear word for basically uncultured people in german. Before reading theory, I wasn't aware of the link to marxism.

Now, I wanted to ask if any of you have heard the word being used in the same way in your languages. I'm wondering if it's used that way only in german. Do you think this might be a way to make people instinctively steer away from communism? Feels like a way to degrade the working class.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bruh, "commoner" certainly wins the price in alienating most of a country's populace. There's many words in german that describe the poorer masses in a degrading way. I'm sure the rich use those casually, but I personally only heard them being used in memes. I guess the difference here is that 'Prolet' is being used by working class ppl to insult other workers who they deem to be 'trashy human beings'.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Our boggies are so malinchistas (hate our people and themselves) that they call mexican music as "musica corriente" in a degrading way lmao.