BoatBanter.com - View Single Post - Way OT, but a "cold war" question. who were the "Pinkos?"

Robert Allison

wrote:

On Feb 29, 1:51 pm, Robert Allison wrote:

Tim wrote:

Robert Allison wrote:

Tim wrote:

My daughter asked me this last night and I realy didn't know how to
answer her.

since the Russian Revoloution in 1917, and the overthrow of the Czar,
the US refered to the C.C.C.P. an the "Reds".

OK, where did the "Pinko" term come into effect?

Was it the eventual Eastern Bloc nations? or say , Castro's Cuba?

I'm curious, who were the "Pinko's?

Communist sympathizers.

It was a term used to describe anyone that was sympathetic to the
communist or socialist cause, but wasn't actually a card carrying
member of the communist party. Sort of a communist light term.

It originally came from the term "parlor pinks" which was used
back in the 20s and 30s to refer to the same sympathizers. Pink
being a diluted version of red.

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Robert Allison
Rimshot, Inc.
Georgetown, TX

Robert, you answered a question that I should have also posted. the
sympathaizers living in a free society with communistic views.

"parlor pinks" I've never heard that phrase before.

When you get called something often enough, you begin to wonder
about it. I did.

Back in the sixties, all you had to do to become an official
pinko was grow your hair long and wear a peace symbol.

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Robert Allison
Rimshot, Inc.
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I could never understand why they called us fag's though. Maybey cause
we were always stealin' their girlfriends

As I got older and wiser (and stronger), I found a new strategy
for dealing with them (the rednecks is what we called them down
here in Texas). I got my ear pierced in 1969 and have worn an
earring long before it was as popular as it is today. Back then,
one of the questions you would get from RNs was: Which ear do
you wear the earring in that means you're a fag?

I learned to answer: "This one." (While pointing to the ear with
my ring in it.) Shut them the hell up.

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Robert Allison
Rimshot, Inc.
Georgetown, TX