Someone who kisses up to their oppressors’ thoughts and feelings rather than being aware of their own communities’ needs to survive. Hypothetically licking your oppressors boot for basic human respect from them.
Person A: why has joe all of a sudden been defending actual nazis? isnt he jewish?
Person B: o yea, hes a boot licker now; hes claiming its because they have freedom of speech while being blissfully unaware of the reprecutions that happened from the publication of mein kamph
Someone who constantly agrees with their friends, or someone they see superior to them, to attempt to gain respect from their friends or colleagues (although it backfires, since that’s not how you gain respect). People hate this type of person, and people like this usually think they have lots of friends and everyone loves them — yet it’s the opposite of that.
Someone who romanticizes the military, police or authoritarianism in general. Boot lickers can be easily spotted by their attraction to state violence, which they usually claim is the only thing keeping society from dissolving into chaos. Boot lickers crave hierarchy even when they and often everyone they care about are the ones being stepped on.