Like
libtard , but used by young white
people instead. Using it is meant to signify that you are of the pure and true left. Invented in
2016 during
Russia's misinformation campaign to allow middle class white
people cosplaying as poor people (while still having well off parents) to talk down to marginalised groups who had been working within the system to change it.
The hipsters wanted Bernie, had internalized their conservative parents hatred of Hillary Clinton, and if they did not get their way, then they wanted a violent revolution. Fought by the little people of course, not them. They'd be the generals because they're all soooo smart.
Those who use use it behave as most white people do. By sharing memes and thinking that counts for political discourse. They call themselves leftists instead of liberals because Russian bots conflated the
American definition with the classical
definition.
The people who use it live online in bubbles of YouTube celebs and their circle jerk memes. Most often they become full on tankies because edginess is currency among these types..
The ones who use it would be conservatives and enjoy their white supremacy but alas, their boomer parents sold off their future, so to the white "leftists" begrudgingly joined the left, but decided that they needed to distinguish themselves from the liberals they were brought up to hate. So the true left in the US suddenly became shitlibs and these new brocialists deemed themselves leftist.
