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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-04 11:11 PM Original message |
What's the origin of the phrase "commie pinko"? |
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flamingyouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-04 11:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. I know it was used in the late '40s |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-04 11:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. That makes sense. |
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Bossy Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-04 11:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. That's what it looks like here |
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Gloria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-04 11:13 PM Response to Original message |
2. It must have come into use during the McCarthy era...I don't know for |
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bobthedrummer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-04 11:14 PM Response to Original message |
3. Homosexual inference, I think. |
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kixot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-04 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
4. Not red, just barely pink. |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-04 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
5. They used "red" to mean communists from the Soviet Union |
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JimmyJazz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-04 11:20 PM Response to Original message |
6. Here ya go: |
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Me. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-04 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
8. I think the term came from |
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WannaJumpMyScooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-01-04 11:36 PM Response to Original message |
10. Now now.... All you have to do is Ask Auntie Pinko right here |
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