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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
The keyboard warriors use "regressive left" in a pseudo-ironic sense though, as they're likening the broadening of social acceptance and civil liberties as an infringement upon the "freedoms" of bigotry (eg the right to refuse service based on religion, sexuality, skin color etc) and protection (gun control) and other such things.
See: "The War On Christianity" or "Straight White Men Are The Only Group You Are Allowed To Suppress"
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Yeah, see, that's totally wrong. And to be fair, your mistake is probably a result of the term having jumped the shark and being #######ized so that it's being used in that way, co-opted by idiots or at least not clearly enunciated.
The purpose of the phrase was originally to describe liberals who are inconsistently applying traditional liberal values - for example, suggesting that criticism of Islam is racist or Islamophobic, to the detriment of equal rights for gays and women in the Muslim world. Or suggesting that a black conservative who vehemently disagrees with the sort activism practiced by Black Lives Matter is an Uncle Tom (and by implication that black people should all think a certain way about social issues, that people's views depend on their skin colour). If you're for free speech, empowerment of women and minorities, you should be for those things everywhere. That's what it's supposed to mean.
The motivating reason underlying the phenomenon of regressive leftism and why people fall into it is a wholly different matter,
discussed here.