Wingnuts are go!

[gordonzola]

OK folks, it’s definition time. Who would like to posit a definition for "wingnut" as it applies to a certain type of politico?

Here’s mine:

Wingnut: A person who has their mental health issues so intertwined with their "politics" that to them there is no difference. Paranoia, conspiracy theory, and poor social skills are necessary traits. In addition, ineffectiveness and failure are usually treated as signs that the Revolution is somehow coming closer to happening. The term originated in People’s Park, Berkeley, California and is usually used by slightly embarrassed anarchists and anti-authoritarians to distance themselves from "wingnut’ politics and activists who may also identify with those terms.

Sample sentence: Did you see the wingnuts protesting the "execution" of Rosebud Denovo when the cops shot her for breaking into the chancellor’s home with a machete?

Please feel free to add your own definitions or ask if someone you know fits the definition.

Comments

[andypop.livejournal.com]

she was right on the money

Yes, she knows her onions. She has been prominent in pro-choice campaigns & is often asked for a quote by the national press, and she always gives the right quote, makes the right point.

But I have never trusted her. I remember, for example, going to a talk by a veteran pro-choice campaigner and watching her carefully but forcefully take it over, as if it was her everyone had come to listen to.

It's this that defines the RCP for me - they've always been one of those groups that's more interested in winning arguments than in genuine discourse (contrary to their late adoption of the 'ban nothing, question everything' slogan). It's an authoritarian impulse which is what I feel destroyed the British left in the 80s.

It's good that Ann knows what she's talking about when the media contact her, but there are people much more deserving of being in that position.