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Extremist Right has declared an acid test, and Donald Trump has passed it
What GOP Conservative Republican could overcome being labeled a cuckservative ?
Over the past week, a coalition of social media–savvy white supremacists and hardcore trolls have lifted the derogatory term “cuckservative” from the fringes of the “alt-right” internet to the cusp of the mainstream political conversation. A portmanteau of “cuckold” and “conservative,” the word refers broadly to mainstream Republicans who hold insufficiently conservative or even progressive positions on hot-button social issues like transgender rights, state use of the Confederate flag, and, especially, immigration.
The term’s connotations are racist. By alluding to a genre of porn in which passive white husbands watch their wives have sex with black men, it casts its targets as impotent defenders of white people in America. Prominent “cuckservatives” include Jeb Bush, John McCain, and Marco Rubio, politicians who have, in the imagination of the term’s promulgators, adopted a false — liberal — consciousness to appeal to the shifting opinions of the American electorate. In this narrative, the anti-cuckservative hero is Donald Trump, who is unafraid to speak a racially inconvenient truth about the dire trajectory of white men.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephberns...ashtag-some-donald-trump-fans-love#.avZqnjLrK
gsgs comment-
Rino was not harsh enough ? I am guessing that we will never hear this term on the national evening news.
/end gsgs comment
So, what does this have to do with conservatism or politics? By supporting immigration reform, criminal justice reform, etc., a white conservative is therefore surrendering his honor and masculinity (and it won’t be long before his women folk are compromised, as well!). A cuckservative is, therefore, a race traitor. The suggestion is that whites should only support policies that help whites. The goal is to stir up fear among whites—and to encourage more tribalism and polarization.
- Dan Savage
The term is blowing up on Twitter right now, so Matt Lewis wrote about it in an effort to keep it from catching on with other conservatives as a synonym for RINO, which was good of him. I’m writing about it because I’m not nearly as nice, and I find it amusing on several levels. The self-satisfaction of the Trump fans who use this term serves to reinforce their own insecure, overcompensatory, and toxic masculinity, but it also reveals the razor-thin gradients of conservative belligerence. There is nary a Republican presidential candidate who disagrees with Donald Trump on the substance, and I’d challenge anyone to find a conservative blogger who hasn’t used the similarly pseudo-butch insult “beta male,” including Erick Erickson. Nice guys like Matt Lewis notwithstanding, the “cuckservative” slur and the Trump candidacy are as perfect examples as I’ve ever seen of reaping what you sow.
- Tommy Christopher
Daily Banter
http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/07/24/22597355/really-awful-word-of-the-day-cuckservative
This leads to a parade of gigantic macho trucks carrying gigantic Confederate flags, young white men, and guns. Where do they park ? On the land of an African-American woman who is giving a party for a child. What do the young white men do, while trespassing ? Holler racial slurs, swears, and shout threats about killing people at the party. When does the ugly incident end ? When the police tell the young white men to leave.
What GOP Conservative Republican could overcome being labeled a cuckservative ?
Over the past week, a coalition of social media–savvy white supremacists and hardcore trolls have lifted the derogatory term “cuckservative” from the fringes of the “alt-right” internet to the cusp of the mainstream political conversation. A portmanteau of “cuckold” and “conservative,” the word refers broadly to mainstream Republicans who hold insufficiently conservative or even progressive positions on hot-button social issues like transgender rights, state use of the Confederate flag, and, especially, immigration.
The term’s connotations are racist. By alluding to a genre of porn in which passive white husbands watch their wives have sex with black men, it casts its targets as impotent defenders of white people in America. Prominent “cuckservatives” include Jeb Bush, John McCain, and Marco Rubio, politicians who have, in the imagination of the term’s promulgators, adopted a false — liberal — consciousness to appeal to the shifting opinions of the American electorate. In this narrative, the anti-cuckservative hero is Donald Trump, who is unafraid to speak a racially inconvenient truth about the dire trajectory of white men.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephberns...ashtag-some-donald-trump-fans-love#.avZqnjLrK
gsgs comment-
Rino was not harsh enough ? I am guessing that we will never hear this term on the national evening news.
/end gsgs comment
So, what does this have to do with conservatism or politics? By supporting immigration reform, criminal justice reform, etc., a white conservative is therefore surrendering his honor and masculinity (and it won’t be long before his women folk are compromised, as well!). A cuckservative is, therefore, a race traitor. The suggestion is that whites should only support policies that help whites. The goal is to stir up fear among whites—and to encourage more tribalism and polarization.
- Dan Savage
The term is blowing up on Twitter right now, so Matt Lewis wrote about it in an effort to keep it from catching on with other conservatives as a synonym for RINO, which was good of him. I’m writing about it because I’m not nearly as nice, and I find it amusing on several levels. The self-satisfaction of the Trump fans who use this term serves to reinforce their own insecure, overcompensatory, and toxic masculinity, but it also reveals the razor-thin gradients of conservative belligerence. There is nary a Republican presidential candidate who disagrees with Donald Trump on the substance, and I’d challenge anyone to find a conservative blogger who hasn’t used the similarly pseudo-butch insult “beta male,” including Erick Erickson. Nice guys like Matt Lewis notwithstanding, the “cuckservative” slur and the Trump candidacy are as perfect examples as I’ve ever seen of reaping what you sow.
- Tommy Christopher
Daily Banter
http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/07/24/22597355/really-awful-word-of-the-day-cuckservative
This leads to a parade of gigantic macho trucks carrying gigantic Confederate flags, young white men, and guns. Where do they park ? On the land of an African-American woman who is giving a party for a child. What do the young white men do, while trespassing ? Holler racial slurs, swears, and shout threats about killing people at the party. When does the ugly incident end ? When the police tell the young white men to leave.
