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fauxgressive 

A fake progressive.

A politician, pundit or other political player that pretends to be progressive while actually supporting unprogressive/corporatist policies.
Barack Obama is a fauxgressive. He pretends to be progressive in his campaigning, but he rarely fights for progressive causes and consistently supports corporatist, unprogressive policies.
fauxgressive by DeathByTrolley August 16, 2011

fauxgressivism 

noun: the practice of pretending to be a progressive while really just acting like a prick.
I'm sick of all the fauxgressivism these days. What's progressive about this whole "FOREIGNERS ARE STEALING OUR JOBS" bit?
fauxgressivism by sparklesgrrl December 17, 2008

Fauxlder 

when a guy or girl looks older then they really are, sometimes using it to reap rewards, such as girls or the ability to purchase alcohal or cigarettes without being i.d'ed.
20 year old 15 year old - Hey can i get a pack of du Marniers and a 40 oz. of olde english please?

Cashier - Sure thing bro (passes i.d check)

making the 15 year old Fauxlder.
Fauxlder by Cobra (('i')) November 15, 2009

fauxlder 

A prop, ideally a manila folder, used to carry in and around the office to give the illusion that work is being done when there is really nothing in it.
"I'm not in the mood to file all these receipts today.. Think I'll take a stroll around the building with my fauxlder instead."
fauxlder by real-diculous March 28, 2013

fauxgressives 

Hypocritical middle-class white people who think they're liberals when they're really just Democrats. Middle class white people who refuse to take off their Happy Magic Fun Privilege Goggles and see the world around them for what it really is. Self-identified "liberals" who remain willfully ignorant of the struggles faced by members of oppressed races and classes, despite being alerted to their blind spots by their peers. Fauxgressives may decline to participate in social justice activities and movements because they live in large cities and believe that racism, classism, ableism and other forms of prejudice and oppression don't exist anymore. Fauxgressives will cling to their ignorance as an excuse to maintain their social, racial and economic privilege.
"The fauxgressives hailed Avatar as the best movie they'd ever seen, despite active public commentary about the racist and ableist themes in the story."
fauxgressives by fatbottom February 11, 2010

fauxgressive 

Individuals that purport to be advocates of science and progress but that ignore all science and evidence that is contradictory to their ideology. The fauxprogressive group consists of marxists, neo-marxists, social justice warriors, people that have blind faith in government subjugation and naively believe that an all powerful government can fix all of the world's problems, people that devolve to ad hominem attacks and that refuse to engage with the ideas of their opponents, all the people that want to destroy classical liberalism, the people that refuse to acknowledge progress and claim that nothing has changed since 1776 or the 1950s, people who think that everyone who doesn't have the same exact beliefs as them are evil idiots, people who have blind faith in the oppressor vs oppressed narrative, people that are members of the anti-racism cult that hate MLK's humanist vision, people that believe that destroying the property and livelihood of innocent third parties is somehow helping to improve society, innocent fundamentalist reductionist that reduce everything to being about power or immutable physical characteristics, and people that love revisionist bullshit.
Fauxgressive: the patriarchy is oppressing everyone.

Someone that values logic, reason, and evidence based argument: Is your claim based upon any evidence and is it falsifiable?

Fauxgressive: YOU RACIST NAZI, YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE PATRIARCHY. STOP OPPRESSING ME
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a lad that is such a lad that he is a proper lad
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