Black Pigeon offers a unique and intelligent global perspective. In this video he notes that the worst insult that can be given in China is to call someone a Baizuo, meaning literally “white left.” It is meant to end the conversation, basically calling the designee unhinged and incapable of being reasoned with — like the modern American Leftist. It is interesting to see the level of disdain shown for them by the disciplined and hardworking Chinese.
11:58 – Black Pigeon Speaks – 28 December 2017 – BitChute
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Baizuo (/ˈbaɪˌtswɔː/; Chinese: 白左 báizuǒ, literally “white left”) is a derogatory Chinese neologism used to refer to Western liberal elites. In more than 400 answers submitted by Zhihu users during 2015 to May 2017, the term is defined as referring to those who are hypocritically obsessed with political correctness in order to satisfy their own feeling of moral superiority motivated from an ignorant and arrogant Western-centric worldview who pity the rest of the world and think they are saviours. A related term is shèngmǔ (圣母, 聖母, literally “holy mother”, title for the mother of an emperor), a sarcastic reference to those whose political opinions are guided by emotions and a hypocritical show of selflessness and empathy, represented by celebrities.
The term baizuo was apparently coined in a 2010 article published on Renren Network, entitled The Fake Morality of the Western White Left and the Chinese Patriotic Scientists (西方白左和中国爱国科学家的伪道德). No further use of the term is known until 2013, with only isolated use during 2013–2015.
Substantial use in Chinese internet culture begins in early 2016, at first at MIT BBS, a bulletin board system used by many Chinese in US, during the United States presidential election of 2016. Baizuo was here used to criticize to the policies of the Democratic Party with regard to minorities, perceived as treating Asians unfairly. English-language reception of the term begins in 2017, with a definition posted on Urban Dictionary in May of that year.
After the 2016 United States presidential election, the term came to be more widely used, e.g. in reference to the perceived double standards of Western media, such as the bias on reporting about Xinjiang conflict.
The Wikipedia information above was copied on 2019-05-26. It would be no surprise to learn that it has since changed. It is good practice to save a PDF copy of ANYTHING on Wikipedia (or the Internet in general at this point) if one ever wants to substantiate what they once saw or read. Both Wikipedia and the Internet are now largely operated by the Ministry of Truth.
Anyone assuming that I mean only to pick on the so-called Left would be mistaken. I mean to offer perspective by posting this. I find hard-core supporters on the Right to be just as intolerable, it’s just that the Left has taken nonsense to an art form — albeit an ugly one, and it is humorous to me that it is so plain to much of the rest of the world.