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"ref": "1934 October 22, “Gentlemen & Guttersnipes”, in Time Magazine, number 17, page 45",
"text": "At Princeton a lone townsman cried \"Down with Mussolini!\" in the midst of a reception, was jostled by students, escorted off the campus. At Harvard the pinko National Students League protested to President Conant, but allowed the visitors to tour Cambridge in peace.",
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"ref": "1947 November 30, Thomas F. Brady, quoting Bryan Foy, “Hollywood Divided”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "“I agree with the decision one hundred per cent,” he said. “And if I find any pinkos that I don't know about on my lot I'll get rid of them if I can. They don't even have to be Communists. I'll try to clean out any leftists.”",
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"ref": "2011 October 24, Archangel Michael, “The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy”, in Slashdot",
"text": "Until society collectively starts using terminology like this effectively, all you'll end up with is a bunch of Commie Pinkos Stinking up parks around the country \"Occupying\" without a clear goal or message.",
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"ref": "2014, Astra Taylor, quoting Kevin Kelly, chapter 4, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company",
"text": "Kelly reassures his readers that the people who run this emerging economy are not left-wing in any traditional sense. They are “more likely to be libertarians than commie pinkos,” he explains.",
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"ref": "2020 December 14, Bryan Bruce, “10 years since the Child Poverty documentary, what’s changed?”, in The Daily Blog",
"text": "Almost 10 years ago I made a documentary called Inside Child Poverty. Some people (largely members of John Key’s government) got very angry with me. I was a left wing pinko journo making this stuff up in an election year.",
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