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    How did the word pinko become associated with someone being a communist?

    Question #118551. Asked by 29CoveRoad. (Nov 03 10 12:10 AM)


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    		"The word pinko was coined by Time magazine in 1925 as a variant on the noun and adjective pink, which had been used along with parlor pink since the beginning of the 20th century to refer to those of leftish sympathies, usually with an implication of 'effeteness'."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinko

    Nov 03 10, 4:32 AM

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