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baizuo
[ bahy-zwuh, bahy-zoh ]
noun
- a liberal or progressive viewed as patronizing, hypocritical, and naive, or as being concerned only with trendy causes, political correctness, virtue signaling, etc., rather than with addressing real-world problems in a realistic way: adopted by some conservatives in American political discourse. libtard ( def ), woke ( def 3 ).
Word History and Origins
Origin of baizuo1
Example Sentences
“Try to learn from the tricks of those pro-Hong Kong independence activists. If you push me I will fall over. Fake tumble, cry and wail, call campus police. We are too strong, which won’t work in the world of baizuo.”
Among themselves, mainland Chinese students share advice on how to attract sympathetic coverage in confrontations with the left-wing activists they call the “baizuo,” a pejorative term for Western liberals that translates as “white left.”
“Free trade, immigration, refugees, these are things that baizuo support,” said Luo Xing, 23, a recent college graduate in Beijing.
Internet users have even spawned a new term, baizuo, or “white left,” to criticize Western-style progressives.
“Now I dislike him for some of the same reasons baizuo don't like him.”
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