Were you a "red diaper baby"?

[Delano]

Were you a "red diaper baby"?

[JVS]

1. If your baby's diaper becomes red, seek a proctologist immediately

[MnFats]

21. i think a pediatrician would be more appropriate...

...but i hope i'm not the butt of some joke.

[skooooo]

2. wish I had been...

...that would have been cool.

[JVS]

4. Maybe not.

Sometimes I think that the only form of rebellion against their parents that they can find is to become members of the John Birch society

[skooooo]

16. eewwwww....

...well I never rebelled much against my parents anyway.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. Other: pink diaper

I would most accurately describe my folks as social-democratic.

[Delano]

5. For those who don't know or couldn't figure it out...

Red diaper babies were babies raised by communist parents.

Grown-up red diaper babies aren't necessarily communists or even leftists, but they often commiserate with one another about the "unique" ways in which they were raised.

6. My father voted for Henry Wallace

but he wasn't a Communist.
Does that count?

I'm surprised the poll indicates people don't know what a red diaper baby is.

[Delano]

11. Just sounds like a good liberal to me...

I would've had I been around.

15. But he was a third party candidate!!! a Progressive

" unsuccessful Progressive candidate for election as President of the United States in 1948"

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000077


Isn't that supposed to be evil?

[Delano]

19. But he was running against Truman...

My least favorite democrat of all time.

I could not have voted for Truman after Hiroshima/Nagasaki.

Unacceptable.

(Here come the flames...)

27. Truman caused plenty of flames on his own

so you won't get any from me.

I can maybe just maybe (and it is a very conditional maybe) accept Hiroshima, but Nagasaki is completely inexcusable once they knew for certain the results of using a nuclear weapon.

[JohnKleeb]

7. nah my parents were just dems

[skooooo]

8. That many people don't know what the phrase means????

Wow! Red diaper baby = parents are communists.

[THUNDER HANDS]

9. no, but

My grandma was. :)

[David__77]

10. The CP had 100,000+ members in the 30s.

Many of us come from reds, a generation or two back. The CP 1936 election slogan was "Communism is Twentieth Century Americanism!" Mass rallies prominently featured US flags, slogans against fascism and for peace with the Soviet Union. Many of the finest Americans were communists: WEB Dubois, Langston Hughes, Harry Bridges and so on.

[Swamp Rat]

12. No, I was a "NO diaper baby." ... Whaahoo!!!

Until my mom could catch me.

[charlie]

13. Not even remotely

My parents are Nixon bitterenders who still think Reagan was a visitation from Heaven.

[AntiCoup2K4]

29. Yes Reagan was from Heaven. He was an incarnation of the Archangel......

.....Lucifer :evilgrin:

[West Coast Democrat]

14. My parents were and are just Democrats

pure and simple

[Delano]

17. By the way, I apologize...

...to those who will be offended by this thread and the undoubtedly inevitable fact that it will be picked up by freepers who will say - "See! They're COMMIES!", or "See! they don't HATE COMMIES ENOUGH!"

Sorry about that.

I am against communism as it was practiced in the soviet union and elsewhere, but using that to try and invalidate everything Marx ever wrote is just plain foolish. His works are required reading in schools of economics, and a certain amount of state intervention is necessary for a capitalist society to function, IMO

[Cleita]

28. I agree.

To believe that Capitalism is an end in itself is really to believe in the law of the jungle and I thought we became civilized to change that. I think every baby born has a right to safety, sustenance and nurture, health care and an education. In order for society to care for all it's babies until they can care for themselves once they are adults, it takes socialism to help accomplish this. So it means we also help their parents to achieve these ends. We also need to help the children take care of their parents once the parents are no longer able to help themselves through either illness or old age. Communism is actually the tribal system of working and sharing together.

Soviet communism and other totalitarian varieties existing today are not real communism, but another version of class based imperialism.

[redqueen]

18. Was Savage not the one who coined the term?

I've only ever heard it in connection with that scum.

[Delano]

20. No, the term has been around for decades.

Savage think up an original idea? Please...

[redqueen]

30. lol... You're right how could I be so silly. n/t

Answer for me is no.

[charlie]

22. No

It's decades-old.

[MnFats]

23. no, it was used in the late 50s and early 60s..

...to describe children of leftist parents....savage stole it; he has no ideas of his own and probably does not believe most of what he says; he's just there to aggravate and outrage normal people.

[Hepburn]

24. GAG: My parents were Goldwater Republicans!

YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a childhood. Lived right outside Orange County, CA, in the 60's. I swear they saw a commie behind every tree and bush on the freeway going to and from John Birch meeings!

Thank, God, for college and knowledge!

[Beloved Citizen]

25. Nope. Hudson County NJ Catholic Commie Hating Democrat

...is how I was brought up. Jersey fucking City. The great days of machine politics, something I actually recall with some fondness. Back when the Democratic Party was something more than a loose coalition of self-involved affinity groups.

[JanMichael]

26. Pretty damned close. But they couldn't commit.

Oh well.

Got my fair share of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger though.

[tigereye]

31. a close friend is

she was impressed that I knew what it was.