Blue Tribe

English Etymology en Q98400007 in a 2014 blog post (see quotation), from the blue color of the Democratic Party. Proper noun Blue Tribe 1 A loosely-defined culture in the United States associated with liberal politics, hipster culture and the Democratic Party. en Red Tribe Grey Tribe en Scott Alexander I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup w:Slate Star Codex https://web.archive.org/web/20230724074223/https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/ 30 September 2014 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". Conor Friedersdorf Oregon and the Injustice of Mandatory Minimums https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/oregon-mandatory-minimums/422433/ https://archive.ph/Urk4L 4 April 2017 5 January 2016 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. en Gideon Lewis-Kraus Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley's War Against the Media w:The New Yorker https://web.archive.org/web/20230628095028/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/slate-star-codex-and-silicon-valleys-war-against-the-media New York, N.Y. Condé Nast Publications 9 July 2020 0028-792X 320541675 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. Cade Metz Silicon Valley's Safe Space https://web.archive.org/web/20230728131232/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html 13 February 2021 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. en Marcus T. Anthony WWW: Web Wide Warfare Part 2 - Towards a Deeper Healing of the Online Culture Wars w:Journal of Futures Studies 1 New Taipei City w:Tamkang University Press September 2021 26 34 10.6531/JFS.202109_26(1).0003 1027-6084 190845334 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.