Baizuo: Chinese for Moonbat

If you know only one word of Chinese, let it be baizuo. The moonbats at openDemocracy admit that the word has become a very popular online pejorative:

Although the emphasis varies, baizuo is used generally to describe those who “only care about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environment” and “have no sense of real problems in the real world”; they are hypocritical humanitarians who advocate for peace and equality only to “satisfy their own feeling of moral superiority”; they are “obsessed with political correctness” to the extent that they “tolerate backwards Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism”; they believe in the welfare state that “benefits only the idle and the free riders”; they are the “ignorant and arrogant westerners” who “pity the rest of the world and think they are saviours”.

The literal translation of baizuo is “white left,” but readers are likely to recognize the extract above as an apt definition of the term moonbat. Bleeding heart open borders moonbat Fatima Merkel is regarded as the original baizuo.

On a tip from John Yaeger.