# What's a Dimm? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 3, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dimm/788020 "2017-06-03T17:57:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dimm/788020/1 "2017-06-03T17:57:48Z")
The question comes from a political context, but this is not a political question. Lou Dobbs, of Fox Business, in reporting on Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Accord, is being quoted as saying that his viewers should love it merely because “_Dimms_, Globalists & the Enviro-left” hate it." What’s a Dimm? Is this the new conservative hate word from Democrats? I’ve never seen or hear it before. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dimm/788020/2 "2017-06-03T18:11:51Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The question comes from a political context, but this is not a political question. > > Lou Dobbs, of Fox Business, in reporting on Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Accord, is being quoted as saying that his viewers should love it merely because “_Dimms_, Globalists & the Enviro-left” hate it." > > What’s a Dimm? Is this the new conservative hate word from Democrats? I’ve never seen or hear it before. \*\*\*for \*\*\*Democrats, not from ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dimm/788020/3 "2017-06-03T18:23:13Z")
Did you perhaps mishear it? ‘Dhimmi’ is used as a perjorative by some on the right. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dimm/788020/4 "2017-06-03T18:25:12Z")
How do you know this is what he said, and the spelling? Where is it “quoted”, and how was it transcribed? The most obvious answer would seem to be that he said “Dems”. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dimm/788020/5 "2017-06-03T19:45:31Z")
It comes from Lou Dobbs “Lou Dobbs Poll: ‘Is Your Week Better Because Dimms and Globalists Are Having A Lousy Week?’” > **[Lou Dobbs Poll: ‘Is Your Week Better Because Dimms and Globalists Are Having...](https://www.mediaite.com/tv/yes-we-are-just-that-petty-lou-dobbs-did-a-viewer-poll-so-silly-even-he-made-fun-of-it/)** > > Fox Business Network's Lou Dobbs featured a poll on his Thursday show asking his audience: "Is your week better because Dimms and Globalists are having a lousy week?" Perhaps some kind of abbreviation of Democratic dimwits ---
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dimm/788020/6 "2017-06-03T19:58:10Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > It comes from Lou Dobbs “Lou Dobbs Poll: ‘Is Your Week Better Because Dimms and Globalists Are Having A Lousy Week?’” > [http://www.mediaite.com/tv/yes-we-are-just-that-petty-lou-dobbs-did-a-viewer-poll-so-silly-even-he-made-fun-of-it/](http://www.mediaite.com/tv/yes-we-are-just-that-petty-lou-dobbs-did-a-viewer-poll-so-silly-even-he-made-fun-of-it/) > > Perhaps some kind of abbreviation of Democratic dimwits Some idiot on the show misspelled “Dems.” There’s nothing else that makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dimm/788020/7 "2017-06-05T17:54:03Z")
See, and I thought it was "Dual In-Line Memory Modules. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dimm/788020/8 "2017-06-05T20:44:31Z")
> [@Flyer](#): > > Some idiot on the show misspelled “Dems.” There’s nothing else that makes sense. This is my vote as well. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dimm/788020/9 "2017-06-05T21:11:09Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Did you perhaps mishear it? ‘Dhimmi’ is used as a perjorative by some on the right. Sort of right but not exactly. “Dhimmi” is an Arabic word for an infidel who agrees to live under Islamic rule. In some Islamic countries, Jews and Christians were tolerated so long as they paid a fee to their Muslim overlords, and promised to be obedient. Some modern right-wingers lob the word “dhimmi” at Westerners who strike them as too friendly to Islam. A “dhimmi” is to Islam as a “cuck” is to Mexicans. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2017, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dimm/788020/10 "2017-06-05T21:15:23Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > This is my vote as well. …and Lou Dobbs didn’t pick up on the cue card / teleprompter mistake. Lou Dobbs: Feet of Clay or Contacts of Coke Bottles…? ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dimm/788020/11 "2017-06-05T21:16:07Z")
It’s pretty obviously a pejorative from of democrats. [#dimms](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23dimms&lang=en) ---
**Author:** ![probrojeffro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@probrojeffro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/probrojeffro)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dimm/788020/12 "2018-07-17T19:08:35Z")
He certainly did say Dimms. [https://www.reddit.com/r/The\_Donald/comments/7rnrux/based\_lou\_dobbs\_fox\_news\_kept\_referring\_to\_the/](https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/7rnrux/based_lou_dobbs_fox_news_kept_referring_to_the/)