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Bunch of COMMMIE PINKOS!!!
Pinko? I always wondered why so many of my American cousins and uncles used that term - pinko, and finally just now googled it...
Pinko is a slang term coined in 1925 in the United States by Time Magazine to describe a person regarded as being sympathetic to communism, though not necessarily a Communist Party member. It has since come to be used, derogatorily, to describe anyone perceived to have leftist or socialist sympathies.
The term has its origins in the notion that pink is a lighter shade of red, a color associated with communism. Thus pink could describe a "lighter form of communism", purportedly promoted by supporters of socialism who were not themselves actual or "card carrying" communists.
Well there we are, now I know.
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