red-diaper baby

Someone who was brought up in a liberal, leftist background

"...I knew Rorty a little; he was a shy and gentle man, a red-diaper baby who grew up to be a bird-watcher and a savorer of Proust and Kant in their original languages."
(from RICHARD RORTY’S PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENT FOR NATIONAL PRIDE by Stephen Metcalf)

by Prasub January 11, 2017