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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe GOP crack-up continues: The raging civil war over the disgusting “cuckservative” slur
Combining racism and misogyny, the insult lets Donald Trump backers claim other Republicans arent real menJOAN WALSH
I had a hard time taking this seriously, but the disgusting term cuckservative really is taking hold on the right. Ill be honest: I learned about it a couple of weeks ago from the mild-mannered, clean-cut conservative writer Matt Lewis, but I thought he was making too much of it. It seemed like trying to shame ones critics based on the behavior of the worst asshole in a comments thread. I didnt bite.
Then cuckservative started showing up in my Twitter mentions last week, after I suggested Donald Trump supporters might not be the brightest bulbs. As I clicked around, I came to a shocking conclusion: Ive been uncharacteristically downplaying the amount of racism and misogyny powering the right today. The spread of the epithet cuckservative is a sign that the crudest psycho-sexual insecurity animates the far right.
Cuckservative, you see, is short for a cuckolded conservative. Its not about a Republican whose wife is cheating on him, but one whose country is being taken away from him, and whos too cowardly to do anything about it.
OK, thats gross and sexist enough already, but theres more. It apparently comes from a kind of pornography known as cuck, in which a white husband, either in shame or lust, watches his wife be taken by a black man. Lewis explains it this way: A cuckservative is, therefore, a race traitor.
This is not merely a new way to shout RINO. Its a call to make the GOP an explicitly racist party, devoted to the defense of whites. Its no accident its taken off in the wake of Donald Trumps presidential campaign launch/performance art, where he attacked illegal Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals.
White nationalist Richard Spencer of the National Policy Institute explained Trumps appeal to Dave Weigel: a) he is a tougher, superior man than conservatives (which isnt saying much), and b) he seems to grasp the demographic displacement of European-Americans on a visceral level. We see some hope there.
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http://www.salon.com/2015/08/03/the_gop_crack_up_continues_the_raging_civil_war_over_the_disgusting_%E2%80%9Ccuckservative%E2%80%9D_slur/
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The GOP crack-up continues: The raging civil war over the disgusting “cuckservative” slur (Original Post)
DonViejo
Aug 2015
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DetlefK
(16,423 posts)1. The inventors of "libtards" and "demonrats" have their fee-fees hurt.
DinahMoeHum
(21,794 posts)2. As long as they slop their garbage on each other and not to us. . .
. . .I couldn't care less.
Please pass the popcorn.