Thank you, MtnClimber, for this word “Baizou”.
Wikipedia did a good job of giving the origin of the word.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baizuo
Still can’t figure out how it should be pronounced? Buy zoo?
Love the graphics. Nice to have a Chinese term to put Leftists in their place.
In fact, when you explain its origins in Hong Kong and the freedom fighters there, I think it adds a sense of shame and show them they are on the wrong side of history... the 1984 George Orwell side.
Check it out... Leftists are properly called Baizous in Chinese. Who knew the Hong Kong Chinese nailed it... :- )
Baizuo is pronounced bye-tswow
Amazing - it’s almost exactly what we call ‘white liberal ‘elites’.... Looks like we’re on the same page with the Chinese on our impression of idiot white liberals....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baizuo
from link:
The term baizuo was apparently coined in a 2010 article published on Renren Network by user Li Shuo, entitled The Fake Morality of the Western White Left and the Chinese Patriotic Scientists (simplified Chinese: 西方白左和中国爱国科学家的伪道德; traditional Chinese: 西方白左和中國愛國科學家的偽道德; pinyin: Xīfāng báizuǒ hé zhōngguó àiguó kēxuéjiā de wěidàodé), initially used as a general critique of certain socialist values in the American left.[3] No further use of the term is known until 2013, where on Chinese forum Zhihu through 2013–2015, the term evolved to criticize some people among the left who seemingly advocate for positive slogans like peace and equality to boast their sense of moral superiority, but are ignorant of real-world consequences, and utilize destructive behavior like political sacrifice and identity politics.[3][6]
This term was widely famous in Hong Kong when Hong Kong people used zuojiao (simplified Chinese: 左胶; traditional Chinese: 左膠; pinyin: zuǒjiāo) in 2014 Hong Kong protests. The definition of this term is: Metropolitan elites with Postmodernism based contemporary liberalism and Cultural Marxism indoctrination in colleges. The ideologies of “Baizuo” including Karl Marx, Frankfurt School , John Dewey and John Rawls according to the consensus of Hong Kong netizens. Chinese netizens inherited this term from the popular speak of Hong Kong and modified it to the Mandarin version of “Baizuo” .[7]