Etymology

From shit +‎ libCategory:English compound terms#SHITLIB.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪt.lɪb/Category:English 2-syllable words#SHITLIBCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#SHITLIB

Noun

shitlib (plural shitlibs)Category:English lemmas#SHITLIBCategory:English nouns#SHITLIBCategory:English countable nouns#SHITLIBCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SHITLIBCategory:Pages with entries#SHITLIBCategory:Pages with 1 entry#SHITLIB

1. (vulgarCategory:English vulgarities#SHITLIB, slangCategory:English slang#SHITLIB, derogatoryCategory:English derogatory terms#SHITLIB, USCategory:American English#SHITLIB, politicsCategory:en:Politics#SHITLIB) A political liberal, especially a hypocritical one.
   • 2017 August 15, Jared Yates Sexton, quoting a 4chan member, The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage, Counterpoint, →ISBN:

     Shitlibs have dehumanized themselves in our eyes. We simply don't give a shit about them, don't consider them human.

     Category:English terms with quotations#SHITLIB

   • 2018, Richard Kelly, T/James Reagan, Southland Tales: The Complete Saga, →ISBN, page 388:

     You arrived here as the mysterious Deepthroat Two, then you immediately told me that you work with CTV, informed me that your two exes were victims of the blasts, and laid out exactly what you'd do with the money we're giving you, so the moment either of those projects premiered, we'd have your name- not that we didn't have it already on account of you being the most loose-lipped deepthroater this shitlib state has ever seen.

     Category:English terms with quotations#SHITLIB

   • 2020, Andrew Marantz, Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, Penguin, →ISBN, page 38:

     For a year and a half, on every social media platform, the Deplorables had waxed breathless about the extent to which they and their MAGA brethren were about to MAGA until every last shitlib had been pwned and rekt and BTFO'd.

     Category:English terms with quotations#SHITLIB

   • 2021 April 21, Alexander Laban Hinton, It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US, NYU Press, →ISBN:

     "George Shaw's contribution emphasizes the importance of undermining the "Newspeak" of the "Marxist social engineers," which the alt-right does in part by reappropriating language and creating neologisms like "Cuckservative," "Counter-Semite," and "shitlib," a term that refers to pseudo-intellectual liberal "wearers of pussy hats" who are "slovenly, perverted, mongrelized, devious, tantrum-prone buffoons and lunatics."

     Category:English terms with quotations#SHITLIB

   • 2023 September 4, Lama Abu Odeh, “How the Shitlibs Won”, in Compact‎, archived from the original on 17 March 2024:

     However, this isn’t to say shitlibs are incapable of, or lack the desire to effect, a cultural revolution. […] Whenever left populists tried to make a nuanced point on gender politics, defend free speech, or propose a different way to address racism, the shitlib simply rejected all nuance and branded every proposed modification of the full-spectrum cultural agenda as "right-wing."

     Category:English terms with quotations#SHITLIB

Anagrams

• libshit