“Whitelash” is now a term

Didn't someone on CNN say this after Trump won in 2016? Van Jones? Vernon Wilkes? Vint Peppers?

*shrugs*

Oh well?

[quote] is now a term

Just because a sassy verbose journalist coined a fake word that does NOT mean anything is 'now a term'.

The internet spews up new gibberish every day. And then they regurgitate it the following day.

Ignore it!

Boris being divisive.

Wikipedia's article on "whitelash" has references going back to 2010.

The term appears in the Cambridge dictionary and Vocabulary.com, showing common usage in news media by 2016.

Dictionary.com shows the term goes back as far as 1965-1970 (based on the Random House Dictionary).

The Urban Dictionary entry first appeared in 2016.

Feel about it as you wish, but it's not something new.

If it gains traction I'm willing to accept it as a neologism, because it does describe something that's been happening for real these last few years.

It's part of the "Angry White Man" phenomenon, which IMHO is more of a reaction to declining living standards than a frankly racist movement, but which includes racist subgroups. Trump and the fascistic right wing have encouraged and courted these assholes, told them to blame all their woes on people who aren't white males thinking they have rights, instead of the capitalist oligarchs cutting wages, benefits, opportunities, and standards of living.

Let's not give the phenomenon any validation by giving it a name that seems to lend it credibility.

It's unforgivable that White people use this made-up word!

Is it literal violence, R8?

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I think "fatlash," "stupidlash" or "turdlash" would be more accurate.

Because it ain't a white thing. They do not speak for whites. They CLAIM to speak for whites.

Who is "They'?

I do not know them.