# Apparently I'm a "Cuckservative." Anyone know what that means?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-im-a-cuckservative-anyone-know-what-that-means/747573
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [February 29, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-im-a-cuckservative-anyone-know-what-that-means/747573 "2016-02-29T23:02:14Z")
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-im-a-cuckservative-anyone-know-what-that-means/747573/1 "2016-02-29T23:02:14Z")
On assorted conservative web sites, I have found that, to Trump fans. I am, like any other Republican who doesn’t back the Donald, a “cuckservative.”
Okay, I give up- where did this term come from, and who’s supposedly banging my wife behind my back?
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-im-a-cuckservative-anyone-know-what-that-means/747573/2 "2016-02-29T23:05:35Z")
Apparently the term originally came from white supremacy sites. Basically you’re a white conservative who’s letting the liberal black jews bang your country. I’ll let someone less concerned about their browser history give you a cite.
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-im-a-cuckservative-anyone-know-what-that-means/747573/3 "2016-02-29T23:07:23Z")
Does it mean everyone who isn’t in a white nationalist party?
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-im-a-cuckservative-anyone-know-what-that-means/747573/4 "2016-02-29T23:09:55Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#):
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> Does it mean everyone who isn’t in a white nationalist party?
Of course not. A Black person is the enemy, not a race traitor. A white liberal may be a race traitor, but at least he isn’t pretending to be a conservative while he’s doing it.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-im-a-cuckservative-anyone-know-what-that-means/747573/5 "2016-02-29T23:17:53Z")
[“Cuckservative”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckservative) is a new word, no older than 2015, and seems to have originated on far-right messageboards.
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> Those in the self-described conservative media targeted by the “cuckservative” slur along with various moderate and left leaning news sites decried the term as an anti-Christian,[5] racist slur[9][10] and a rallying cry for white nationalists and neoreactionaries.[11] Some, observers, such as the SPLC, say that the term’s usage has been rising among white nationalists in the United States.[3]
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> One definition of “cuckservative” defines it as a conservative who sells out,[12] having bought into all of the key premises of the left,[9] and is enthralled with liberal values.[4] According to Richard B. Spencer, the president of the white nationalist National Policy Institute, the term is a shorthand used to express “certain kind of contempt for mainstream conservatives”.[13] The phrase is similar to “Republican In Name Only” (RINO).[14] Social conservatives who use the term condemn what they see as Republicans running on socially conservative values to appeal to their base during an election cycle, only to use vote trading to compromise on those values while in office.[13] The term “cuckold” has a long history as an insult implying that a specific man is weak and emasculated, and may even feel pleasure at his own humiliation because of sexual masochism. The term “cuckservative” similarly implies that certain male Republicans are humiliated through their actions while feeling thrilled and excited from their own degradation because of the abandonment of their own moral standards.[15][3]
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> Some American political writers have suggested that the term is racially charged by being seemingly derived from a genre of interracial pornography in which a white married woman spurns her white husband for sex with a black man.[16][15][17][18] This concept is itself rooted in ideas of interracial sex being taboo and the stereotype of black men being more sexually active than white men, and in this context the fact that African Americans are particularly prone to support the Democratic party.
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> Far right anti-immigrant groups have used the term to condemn white politicians who they say unknowingly promote “the interests of Jews and non-whites”.[19] The Anti-Defamation League says that the term is used by white nationalists as a synonym of the pre-existing phrase “race traitors”.[19]
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-im-a-cuckservative-anyone-know-what-that-means/747573/6 "2016-03-01T00:48:43Z")
Ironic, then, that our precocious young Korean-American friend decided to adopt it as his epithet of choice, prior to his suspension.
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-im-a-cuckservative-anyone-know-what-that-means/747573/7 "2016-03-01T01:56:42Z")
Not surprised that Breitbart tried to defend the users of that insult as not being related to racism because it originated on 4chan…
…On a political thread that was talking about “there goes the neighborhood” (with paraphrases of the ugly racist meme about “white genocide”) regarding immigrants like Jews and other minorities and the politicians that are helping them.
Breitbart is not making the users of that insult look better.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-im-a-cuckservative-anyone-know-what-that-means/747573/8 "2016-03-01T09:29:28Z")
The only way Breitbart can make ANYTHING look better is by publicly opposing it.
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-im-a-cuckservative-anyone-know-what-that-means/747573/9 "2016-03-01T22:34:21Z")
This question could actually have been asked and answered in General Questions, given the factual nature of the question.
However, given the personal way the OP was worded and its relevance to the current election, I am going to leave it in this forum.
On the other hand, the actual question has been answered and rather than leave it as a temptation for various posters to violate board rules by using the thread to launch attacks on other posters, I am closing it.
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