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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday December 30 2020, @02:06PM
Language change is slow, and the the factions that need to be patronised (it is a description that diminishes them, rather than presenting them as something to revere or fear) have indeed been around for vastly different lengths of time. Sad pathetic righties are relatively recent, in all the countries I have any experience with, and I remember loony-lefties from the UK back in Thatcher's time, so that's over 3 decades head start.
Of course, describing them in patronising terms doesn't mean that they aren't potentially dangerous, it's just that sometimes othering righties as jack-booted nazis actually encourages them! You do have to chose how you other outgroups carefully depending on context. I mean, you'd hate to be the one carrying the banner that says "they're lazy and milk our welfare system" when the rest of the mob is carrying "they's tekkin our jurbs" ones, wouldn't you?
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