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Usually refers to white, college-age, left-wing student activists that dress poorly and engage in labored, unoriginal and uninspiring acts of civil disobedience that have little to no relevance to every day Americans, such a protests against sweat shops or the entire Occupy Movement.
“Oh man!” he chortled, “Ha! I should’ve guessed… by your clothes! Oh man! You’re one of the freak-a-deeks!”
“Freak-a-deeks?” I disingenuously protested and leaned back in my chair.
“Yeah. Oh, man.” He laughed. “That’s what we call these airhead activist types. You know? I didn’t mean any disrespect when I was going on about all that white man’s guilt shit and all. You know?”
“Don’t worry,” I said. “It takes a thick skin to be in the business.”
He rubbed his tear-clogged eyes and stopped his laughing. “Who’re you with? The Greens? The Commies? The ‘let’s rape the rich’ freak-a-deeks?”
“The Progressives,” I said. “The Obioch Progressive Union.”
Excerpt from the novel The Rum and the Fury
“Freak-a-deeks?” I disingenuously protested and leaned back in my chair.
“Yeah. Oh, man.” He laughed. “That’s what we call these airhead activist types. You know? I didn’t mean any disrespect when I was going on about all that white man’s guilt shit and all. You know?”
“Don’t worry,” I said. “It takes a thick skin to be in the business.”
He rubbed his tear-clogged eyes and stopped his laughing. “Who’re you with? The Greens? The Commies? The ‘let’s rape the rich’ freak-a-deeks?”
“The Progressives,” I said. “The Obioch Progressive Union.”
Excerpt from the novel The Rum and the Fury
by Karlos October 22, 2014
Apr 26 Word of the Day
1. The default beliefs installed when you were a child.
2. An unexamined position you absorbed from your environment growing up.
2. An unexamined position you absorbed from your environment growing up.
I grew up in a conservative home so my factory settings lead me to vote Republican.
I grew up in a liberal home so my factory settings lead me to vote Democrat.
I grew up in a liberal home so my factory settings lead me to vote Democrat.
by riemannslost0 February 04, 2020