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A fake progressive.
A politician, pundit or other political player that pretends to be progressive while actually supporting unprogressive/corporatist policies.
Barack Obama is a fauxgressive. He pretends to be progressive in his campaigning, but he rarely fights for progressive causes and consistently supports corporatist, unprogressive policies.
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Individuals that purport to be advocates of science and progress but that ignore all science and evidence that is contradictory to their ideology. The fauxprogressive group consists of marxists, neo-marxists, social justice warriors, people that have blind faith in government subjugation and naively believe that an all powerful government can fix all of the world's problems, people that devolve to ad hominem attacks and that refuse to engage with the ideas of their opponents, all the people that want to destroy classical liberalism, the people that refuse to acknowledge progress and claim that nothing has changed since 1776 or the 1950s, people who think that everyone who doesn't have the same exact beliefs as them are evil idiots, people who have blind faith in the oppressor vs oppressed narrative, people that are members of the anti-racism cult that hate MLK's humanist vision, people that believe that destroying the property and livelihood of innocent third parties is somehow helping to improve society, innocent fundamentalist reductionist that reduce everything to being about power or immutable physical characteristics, and people that love revisionist bullshit.
Fauxgressive: the patriarchy is oppressing everyone.
Someone that values logic, reason, and evidence based argument: Is your claim based upon any evidence and is it falsifiable?
Fauxgressive: YOU RACIST NAZI, YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE PATRIARCHY. STOP OPPRESSING ME
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Someone who hates President Barack Obama and pretends to be a progressive to make the hatred look like it's coming from within the Democratic Party.
Sally has voted Republican for 30 years, but she calls herself a "progressive" now to make it seem like the Democratic Party is splintering. She's a fauxgressive.
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Hypocritical middle-class white people who think they're liberals when they're really just Democrats. Middle class white people who refuse to take off their Happy Magic Fun Privilege Goggles and see the world around them for what it really is. Self-identified "liberals" who remain willfully ignorant of the struggles faced by members of oppressed races and classes, despite being alerted to their blind spots by their peers. Fauxgressives may decline to participate in social justice activities and movements because they live in large cities and believe that racism, classism, ableism and other forms of prejudice and oppression don't exist anymore. Fauxgressives will cling to their ignorance as an excuse to maintain their social, racial and economic privilege.
"The fauxgressives hailed Avatar as the best movie they'd ever seen, despite active public commentary about the racist and ableist themes in the story."
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Technological advancement that actually diminishes utility / usability compared to what it replaced.
Favoured in particular by technology companies desperate for people to upgrade their devices, they will add on all sorts of flashy new functionality which at best is useless, and at worst is actually less functional than the prior version (see: the removal of the headphone jack on smartphones).
"Man, the face-unlock on this new phone is total fauxgress - it makes me move my phone in front of my face whenever I want to unlock it; thumbprint unlock was way more simple"
Internet leftists who pretend to be progressive online but repeat conservative talking points as a way to grift
Silly: Did you see the latest video from The Young Turks?
Billy: No, they’re Fauxgressives now