tonyhag opened this issue on Sep 14, 2006 · 47 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Sat, 16 September 2006 at 11:11 PM
The term "neocon" means different things to different people. It depends upon who's using the term. But it's always a pejorative.
However -- it was initially a term used to apply to certain Jewish members of the conservative movement -- specifically certain members of recent Republican administrations who happened to be Jewish. Most of those Jews being converted former political liberals. "Neocon" is a favored term among wacko conspiracy theorists and outright anti-semitic racist groups. They use the term all of the time. It's essentially a codeword meaning either "a conservative supporter of Israel"; a "conservative Jew"; or in some cases -- it simply means Jew.
It's not a word that I'd be proud to use. It has.....strong racist connotations at its core.