BAIZUO Definition & Meaning

baizuo

[ bahy-zwuh, bahy-zoh ]

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noun

Chinese: Disparaging.

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 ).

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Origin of baizuo¹

First recorded in 2015–20; from Mandarin Chinese: literally, “white left,” from ��á�� “white, empty” (compare Cantonese baak; akin to Japanese haku, Korean baek, Vietnamese ��ạc�� ) + ��ǒ “left, east” (compare Cantonese zo; akin to Japanese sa, Korean jwa, Vietnamese ��ả ); alternatively, the first element is a shortening of ��á��ī “idiot,” from ��á�� + ��ī “foolish, stupid” (compare Cantonese ci; akin to Japanese, Korean chi, Vietnamese si )

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Example Sentences

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“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.”

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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.”

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“Free trade, immigration, refugees, these are things that baizuo support,” said Luo Xing, 23, a recent college graduate in Beijing.

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Internet users have even spawned a new term, baizuo, or “white left,” to criticize Western-style progressives.

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“Now I dislike him for some of the same reasons baizuo don't like him.”

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