We watched Question Time on Sunday afternoon. it was full of bald headed kippers using words like Remoaners. They claimed they did not vote to leave because they were racist but they never gave their reasons. Each one mocked the idea that the issue was complex. They claimed the remainers saw them as stupid and read the Sun yet not one provided a complex, wide ranging arguement for their position. I am fed up with one dimensional muppets...I am proud that they insult us, sneer at us because our views are complex, tentative and developing. SO I am setting up a RROUD TO BE A LIBTARD GROUP on Facebook. IWOULD RATHER BE A REBEL THAN A SLAVE. Please support us..https://www.facebook.com/groups/1616845238617607/
Supported
remaining in the EU? Think we should show compassion to Syrian
refugees? Think benefit claimants shouldn't be demonised? If you've
expressed support for any of these views or any similar such things
on social media then like as not some bigot will have labelled you a
'libtard at some time or other.It's a decidedly unpleasant term
created by right wing conservatives to imply that liberally minded
people are of diminished intelligence. Well if being compassionate
and caring makes you a 'libtard' it's certainly not something to be
ashamed of - in fact we think we should wear it as a badge of honour,
We are libtards and we are proud.
(Lib-Tard)
1) Combination of the words Liberal and retard (see also: Libterd,
libturd, libnerd, libsurd, libdiot, libored) 2) The result when a
tree hugger successfully mates with a tree and the offspring is born
with an extra chromosome. 3) Any helpless society that must always be
liberated by the blood and sweat of others yet are too arrogant and
stupid to realize that they owe their entire existance to others.(see
also: French-tard, French-Tarded, Retarded-Frenchmen).
libtard
1)
Hillary clinton and her husband, you know what's his face. You know
that libtard that got impeached for going down on that fat chick in
the beret that looked like Rosie Odonnel.
2)
Look at that tall mongoloid with the vote Kerry T-shirt. Must be one
of them libtards.
3)
Screw you Frenchie! You freakin' Libtard.
"Libtard" is a portmanteau word, but of what? Liberal + ???
This
topic arose in the comments to my
post last night that
took The New Yorker to task for publishing the sentence: "In
India, Hindu supremacists have adopted Rush Limbaugh’s favorite
epithet 'libtard' to channel righteous fury against liberal and
secular élites." In fact, Rush Limbaugh never says "libtard."
I
added: "'Libtard' is an offensive word, unnecessarily dragging
in disrespect for the mentally challenged." I have always heard
the word as a combination of "liberal" and "retard."
But in the comments, MadisonMan asked: "Does the 'tard' come
from retard, or bastard?" I think it's obvious: 1. "Retard"
is often shortened to just "'tard" and no one ever says
"'tard" to mean "bastard," and 2. The contempt
expressed in the use of the word seems to be about stupidity and not
orneriness.
Urban
Dictionary confirms my understanding,
in the top-voted definition and in all the competing definitions.
The [the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party's] dominance during this election campaign has had unexpected benefits, including reviving the belief that secularism is a value — even if it’s a value that needs reviving, and redefining. In rambunctious Twitter arguments, “sickular” is often used as a pejorative term, along with “libtard,” a composite for “liberal bastard.” This language, however extreme, is a sign that between the small but noisy groups of Hindu supremacists and the small but equally vociferous groups of committed left-liberals lies a vast middle ground.
I
don't know if that columnist got it right, and who knows how the word
"libtard" came into being in India? It didn't come from
Rush Limbaugh, but did it come from other Americans? If so, was the
"tard" misunderstood as connected to "bastard" or
was the NYT op-ed writer — Nilanjana S. Roy — just innocent of
the American word "tard" and making her own assumption? Roy
is a novelist born, educated, and living in India. She's not a good
source of the origin of the American epithet "libtard,"
which seems to have a life of its own in India.
I
searched the Hindustan Times for the word "libtard" and
came up with 3 examples, including one from last month titled "Have
you been trolled? Challenging the defence of India’s 'bhakts'" —
which challenges me to understand another word, bhakts:
Social media trolls with right wing Hindu leanings – characterised by their vehement attacks on anyone opposing the Narendra Modi-led government – have undoubtedly hogged the limelight this week. While their attacks on people, who do not agree with them, have grown unprecedentedly brazen, 'bhakts' also enjoy a new-found attention of newspaper columnists, online commentators and prominent intellectuals....
[Film director Vivek] Agnihotri wrote, "You call them Internet Hindus, they call you Adarsh Liberals. You call them Bhakts, they call youLibtards. You call them Sanghis, they call you AAPtards. This new, emerging, virtual India is not taking it lying down like their ancestors did."
What the director misses is that while calling opponents Adarsh Liberals or AAPtards (quite derogatory in itself, taking off from 'retard'), the trolls also heap slanderous abuses on them....
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