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I've never heard this. A decade ago "white knighting" had a very different meaning on 4chan. It was used to make fun of Anons that shit on the rampant misogyny
by cjslep 7y ago
I've never heard this. A decade ago "white knighting" had a very different meaning on 4chan. It was used to make fun of Anons that shit on the rampant misogyny and tried to get other Anons to stop being misogynistic, and also "white knights" were people pushing for things generally socially progressive on the site.
It actually used to have a decent population of far left than far right, but now it's known only for being far right.
Crazy to see the term completely 180.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> A decade ago "white knighting" had a very different meaning on 4chan. It was used to make fun of Anons that shit on the rampant misogyny and tried to get other Anons to stop being misogynistic That was actually derived from the older meaning the term has had for decades of, roughly, to borrow some relevant phrasing from the article here “performative wokeness by those outside of and detached from the interests group being superficially advocated for that marginalizes the actual group being superficially served”. It either originated or became most prevalent in feminist circles (which is clearly where the 4chan use you refer to, which doesn't seem to be so much a redefinition as a bad-faith application, came from.)