Meaning of Blue Tribe | Babel Free

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A loosely-defined culture in the United States associated with liberal politics, hipster culture and the Democratic Party.

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“The Blue Tribe is most classically typified by liberal political beliefs, vague agnosticism, supporting gay rights, thinking guns are barbaric, eating arugula, drinking fancy bottled water, driving Priuses, reading lots of books, being highly educated, mocking American football, feeling vaguely like they should like soccer but never really being able to get into it, getting conspicuously upset about sexists and bigots, marrying later, constantly pointing out how much more civilized European countries are than America, and listening to "everything except country".”

“When HBO's John Oliver broadcasts a polemical monologue, its subject is invariably something that America's Blue Tribe—Americans whose place on the cultural and ideological left forms a core part of their identity—regards as idiotic, evil, or both. Last Week Tonight helps its audience indulge in collective outrage.”

“The issue of the Gray Lady against the Grey Tribe, like so many conflicts that have recently played out on social media, is perhaps best viewed as an internecine struggle over the strategies of the Blue Tribe in an era of political crisis and despair. Everyone has skin in the game, and the stakes are high.”

“Mr. Siskind was not a member of the Blue Tribe. He was not a voice from the conservative Red Tribe ("opposing gay marriage," "getting conspicuously upset about terrorists and commies"). He identified with something called the Grey Tribe — as did many in Silicon Valley.”

“The blue/red dichotomy is admittedly an oversimplification of the reality that the culture wars now feature multiple memetic tribes, as Limberg and Barnes (2018) outline. Roughly aligned with the Blue tribe are groups like the establishment left, social justice activists, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, Neo-Marxists and far-left radicals like Antifa; while aligned with the Red tribe are the establishment right, Benedictines, Christian right, Trumpists, Infowarriors and the Alt-right.”

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