blue-pilled
adjective
| BLOO-pild
A right-wing insult for being delusional and ‘woke’; willfully ignorant of the supposed truth
What does blue-pilled mean?
Blue-pilled is a slang term meaning “having taken the blue pill,” the blue pill being a metaphor for the mindless acceptance of an illusory reality (blue pill stands in contrast to the red pill, which awakens someone to actual truth). It is primarily used in disparaging people associated with left-wing or progressive ideologies.
Also bluepilled, blue pilled.
Examples of blue-pilled
Just got called a blue-pilled cuck because I want a wife
—@viper_vfr, Threads, 28 Nov. 2024
Europeans are literally blue-pilled and are mostly concerned with climate change, immigration and the Ukraine war
—I shouldn’t have to tell any of you the state of things today do not seem so great. Even the most blue pilled normie who mistakenly watches the mainstream media for their “news” gets it to a certain degree.
—He's a blue-pilled Democrat. He still thinks that the Hunter Biden laptop was fake and that the media didn't cover up the lab leak hypothesis.
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Where does blue-pilled come from?
Blue-pilled is based on the Internet slang blue pill, or the condition of remaining comfortably unaware or in denial of a purported deeper truth or ‘real’ state of reality. Blue pill originated in a scene in the 1999 film The Matrix where the main character is given the choice between taking a (literal) blue pill that would return him to a state of ignorance and a red pill that would show him the truth that humans are enslaved in a simulated reality.
The concept, and term, spread in the 2010s as a metaphor for a blind faith in or being brainwashed by mainstream thought and values. It was particularly popular in online communities who viewed the mainstream as liberal. These communities—associated with conspiracy theories and extremist ideologies, including racism, homophobia, and misogyny—used the term red pill as a metaphor for seeing, and being freed by, the supposed truth. By the 2020s, following the rise of far-right politics in online media, critics of progressive viewpoints began using blue-pilled as a form of derision, meant to describe people who unthinkingly supported them as delusional and ‘woke.’
Blue pill was then made into a verb, “to remain in a state of ignorance,” taking the past tense and past participle forms of blue-pilled. Red-pilled _and _blue-pilled yielded the suffix -pilled, usually humorously attached to stems characterizing a sudden fixation or indoctrination. For instance: “I tried to resist the appliance because I thought it was such a trend, but I finally used one to cook chicken and now I’m totally air fryer-pilled.”
How is blue-pilled used?
Blue-pilled is primarily used to denigrate someone or something seen as politically and socially liberal, mainstream (construed as liberally biased), or otherwise in opposition to beliefs of those who have metaphorically taken the red pill.
It occasionally appears in the construction to get or become blue-pilled, which refers to the process in which a previously free-thinking individual becomes indoctrinated by leftism, such as through exposure or persuasion by the mainstream media. Less commonly, blue-pilled is used ironically to counter its use as an insult or positively by individuals associated with social liberalism.
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