It’s meant to lump together progressive liberals, socdems, reformists, and people who are sympathetic to communism but not communists themselves. IIRC, it was originally used to refer to FDR, Henry Wallace and other left-wing members of the Democratic Party by anti-New Dealers. The insinuation being that while they weren’t fully red, they were “close enough” or in denial.
By the Nixon days, it mutated to accuse anyone of being “too soft” on Communism, even Milquetoast liberals who are still vocally anticommunist themselves.
Naturally, a fully-dyed Red would/should object to the label. Same as “liberal”.
I have a friend who posts on a reactionary Chinese-speaking message board for finance and tech bros. Apparently, they use a term like "pink" as a pejorative for leftys also.
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Does "pinko" have a different meaning or history or something?
It’s meant to lump together progressive liberals, socdems, reformists, and people who are sympathetic to communism but not communists themselves. IIRC, it was originally used to refer to FDR, Henry Wallace and other left-wing members of the Democratic Party by anti-New Dealers. The insinuation being that while they weren’t fully red, they were “close enough” or in denial.
By the Nixon days, it mutated to accuse anyone of being “too soft” on Communism, even Milquetoast liberals who are still vocally anticommunist themselves.
Naturally, a fully-dyed Red would/should object to the label. Same as “liberal”.
I have a friend who posts on a reactionary Chinese-speaking message board for finance and tech bros. Apparently, they use a term like "pink" as a pejorative for leftys also.