Before it became a 4chan meme, “cuckold” was a common term of abuse in mediaeval times and through the Renaissance. Shakespeare plays are replete with the word — that’s where I learned it, anyway, where it’s used as a byword for an emasculated male.
The original meaning, of course, referred to a man with an unfaithful wife. In recent years, it also describes a new sexual fetish where “cuckolds” watch their partners have sex with another person. For some reason, the Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis thinks that exclusively black men feature in this kind of pornography — again, he clearly hasn’t spent enough time on 4chan.
I mean, I’d be fine if that were the case and it were a porn genre devoted solely to black men, obviously. But it simply isn’t, and in any case that’s not the etymology of this term. It didn’t metastasise from porn, but rather from image boards.
On 4chan, “cuck” is used as a general term of abuse, to describe someone who caves in, surrenders, or sells out his core supporters. (His base, in political parlance.) 4chan’s founder Christopher Poole, for example, is called a “cuck,” not for any racially-charged reason, but because he capitulated to outside pressure to ban controversial discussion topics on the website. And because he was allegedly cuckolded in real life – but not by a black man.
It’s easy to see why “cuck” makes such a good insult. It’s a byword for needlessly relinquished manliness, for selling out and caving in. The original metaphor of watching your partner getting slammed by another dude now simply means abandoned principles and a lack of backbone. It’s a byword for beta male or coward.
It also carries the element of a man who pledges fidelity, yet takes perverse pleasure in the most overt act of disloyalty. From attacking Donald Trump for championing the immigration issue, to firing John Derbyshire for crime-think, it fits perfectly.
It is so perfect, you will never convince me that Heartiste‘s constant use of the cuckold meme wasn’t the true origin, with Rush picking it up from there.
For accuracy’s sake, it is worth noting that Cuckservatives are really just instinctual liberals who were smart enough to know being liberal is a mark of idiocy, but not smart enough to logically reason themselves away from their liberal urges after they identified themselves as conservative for reasons of reputation. Sadly, due to their innate liberal ability to navigate social hierarchies, they tend to rise to leadership positions within the movement. Once there, their liberal urges produce constant betrayals and capitulations to their liberal instincts, as well as a subtle perception that real conservatives are some sort of enemy to be attacked.
You can see the liberal urges in their desperate desire to maintain social status and avoid being slurred by the base, avoid conflict with the enemy, attack those who question them with lies (ie “Cuckservative” was coined by the KKK to slur conservative Christians), use of disqualification by association, attempts to ban and silence anyone who discusses crime-truths (Derbyshire), and openness to liberal philosophies about immigration, spending, guns, foreign aid, and so on.
Notice, this site predicted that Trump would create greater confrontation, and alter our debate. Before Trump, K-strategists were getting screwed left and right by the Cuckservatives. It is only now, as people have gotten acclimated to fighting and acrimony, that the true K-strategists are on the attack, something made even more obvious by how the Cuckservatives have a sense of desperation about their new name. Rabbits always panic when the acrimony begins.
This will get even more interesting once Trump begins winning primaries.
