A derogatory term used to describe left-wingers that are seen as mainstream and unoriginal in their thinking, repeating the mantras of the media and the intellectual elites in a manner that is perceived as unreflective, unintellgent, and/or self-serving.
Originally a term coined by the dissident right in 2016, it has been picked up and attained wide usage among the dissident left since 2020.
Originally a term coined by the dissident right in 2016, it has been picked up and attained wide usage among the dissident left since 2020.
Sally: I'm glad they banned Jason from Twitter for spreading disinformation. I've heard he's compromised to Russia!
David: You've been watching too much Rachel Maddow and it's turned you into an unbearable shitlib.
David: You've been watching too much Rachel Maddow and it's turned you into an unbearable shitlib.
by Anthix May 04, 2021
Someone who identifies as progressive and parrots meaningless and inconsequential identity politics, but is economically very firmly right wing. Shitlibs believe that the mainstream media is infallible, that large internet corporations shouldn't be subject to any restrictions by the government, that putting issues like labor rights, the cost of living, and healthcare over racism and sexism in terms of priorities is dangerous, that Joe Biden is beneficial to the working classes, and that the American democratic party is a beacon of goodness and morality. If you point out that none of those views are progressive, left wing, or just plain true in any way, shitlibs will tell you that you're a right winger and/or a Russian agent. Shitlibs are essentially exceptionally committed neolibs.
A shitlib is basically a conservative who likes dressing up his/her/their conservative politics with nonsensical liberal-sounding buzzwords.
by RandomAnonymouseUD February 17, 2023
privileged, "performative- progressive", well-off class-snob who isn't ideologically integral enough to be a full on commie POS because communism would take away their subaru and condo and make them work in a hammer factory with the deplorables they consider their moral and intellectual inferiors.
by Evan Balgord March 10, 2022
"Dad, Timmy at school said the U.S.A. is a white supremacist country! Is that true!??"
"Son, don't listen to Timmy. He sounds like a shitlib."
"Son, don't listen to Timmy. He sounds like a shitlib."
by Ace of Based December 12, 2019
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.
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.
Omg, that poor low information voter is such a shitlib. She reads books and newspapers and watches the news instead of YouTube and meme sharing. What a tool of the system bro.
by BdoMcGregor August 30, 2022
Person with no core beliefs or values, other than supporting institutional power. Prefers slogans & optics to actual policy.
by jkd_dude April 20, 2023
Portmanteau comprising the words “shit” and “lib.” Used in leftist political discourse as a perjorative, mocking the spinelessness, stupidly, hypocrisy, and willful ignorance of American liberals.
“Vote blue no matter who! You’re probably a russian bot trying to get Trump re-elected.”
“Nope, I’m just not a shitlib like you. Hit the phones.”
“Nope, I’m just not a shitlib like you. Hit the phones.”
by Unapologetic Socialist September 09, 2020