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watermelon

n. a communist masquerading as an environmental activist. Subjects: , , , ,
Citations: 1983 Oakland Ross Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) (June 4) “El Salvador: Election just a sideshow to real fight” p. P9: Major Robert D’Aubuisson, leader of the ultra right Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), likes to compare the Christian Democrats to a watermelon. “Green (the Christian Democrats’ official color) on the outside,” he says, “and red on the inside.” 1991 Harry Vaughn San Francisco Chronicle (Mar. 25) “Letters to the Editor: “Hate Campaign”” p. A20: The keynote speaker, William H. Holms, presented a talk entitled, “Wimps, Weirdos and Watermelons,” in which he stated environmentalists were just a bunch of unemployed welfare-leeching Communists. He suggested that the timber industry should join forces with the farming and mining (oil) industries and mount a “hate campaign” against the environmental community, which he portrayed as “green on the outside and red on the inside.” 2004 [Dean Esmay] Dean’s World (Apr. 25) “Fun With Political Hate Speech”: We have one for the greens—"watermelons” (green on the outside, red on the inside, i.e. closet commies).

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