Moonbat was a preferred term used by American conservatives/ chuds to describe "the extreme left" back in like 2010. And by extreme left, it really only meant liberals they saw on MSNBC who thought that imperialism should have a bit more polite wording to it. I don't think any actual leftist has ever been called a "moonbat". The term has pretty strongly fallen out of favor since
I believe it was paired with "wingnut" - a neologism of "right wing nutso" - from the liberal side.
It looks like moonbat may have gained popularity thanks to George Monbiot, in the UK, being an outspoken liberal. So I imagine it just trickled across the pound and caught on among American conservatives because they thought it sounded pithy.
Moonbat was a preferred term used by American conservatives/ chuds to describe "the extreme left" back in like 2010. And by extreme left, it really only meant liberals they saw on MSNBC who thought that imperialism should have a bit more polite wording to it. I don't think any actual leftist has ever been called a "moonbat". The term has pretty strongly fallen out of favor since
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George Monbiot's name, apparently? I remember hearing that like 10 years ago.
Pretty sure this was a Limbaugh thing.
From the folks unironically calling themselves "Dittoheads" and "Rushbots", a pejorative.
by the timing it sounds like that's about when they switched to saying sjw
That makes sense
I believe it was paired with "wingnut" - a neologism of "right wing nutso" - from the liberal side.
It looks like moonbat may have gained popularity thanks to George Monbiot, in the UK, being an outspoken liberal. So I imagine it just trickled across the pound and caught on among American conservatives because they thought it sounded pithy.