NYT: AWFUL ( Affluent White Female Urban Liberal )

[Pluvious]

After Renee Good Killing, Derisive Term for White Women Spreads on the Far Right

Vocal Trump supporters are demonizing Renee Good,
her partner and their allies, with some even using an acronym:
AWFUL, or Affluent White Female Urban Liberal.

From the piece...

Jan. 17, 2026
In the days since a federal agent killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, Republican officials and conservative commentators have called the 37-year-old white woman “very violent,” a “deranged lunatic woman” and a “domestic terrorist.”

Some right-wing influencers have latched onto a different word — or rather an acronym: Ms. Good, they have said, was AWFUL.

“An AWFUL (Affluent White Female Urban Liberal) is dead after running her car into an ICE agent who opened fire on her,” the conservative commentator Erik Erickson posted on social media. “Progressive whites are turning violent. ICE agents have the right to defend themselves.”

From a co-host on an AM radio show in Orlando, Pierce Outlaw, to an army of internet trolls, the acronym has taken off. Mr. Outlaw called AWFULs “the scourge of polite society.” The term popped up on the internet Wiktionary this month as AWFL, without the “U.”

Beyond labels and name-calling, the death of...

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[Kid Berwyn]

1. INCELs say wut?

Pierce Outlaw is a flaming idiot.

https://www.americanadversaries.com/pierceoutlaw

So much money for such a small brain.

[Ocelot II]

2. Then I'm happy to be called AWFUL. I'm an awful childless cat lady!

[Conjuay]

7. I'm sure the cats don't think you're AWFUL

[SheltieLover]

3. Ruskie bots

[Coventina]

4. Pure misogyny.

These CHUDS are just jealous that desirable women want nothing to do with them.
(Please note: I do not intend to connect whiteness with attractiveness. I think these losers hate ALL women, regardless of color).

[TBF]

5. Different day, same shit - republicans have been demonizing women

since the dawn of time. These losers haven't changed since high school. I wouldn't let them copy off my tests then, and I'm not giving them the time of day now.

[yardwork]

12. And demonizing urban liberals.

It's just this decade's version of "real men don't eat arugula" and the rest of their weird obsessions with anybody different from them.

[milestogo]

6. Tell me why affluent is good for a man but bad for a woman.

Then tell me why they call Renee Good "affluent".

[dickthegrouch]

9. Affluence represents independence

And therefore loss of control by the men over the women.
Or even by Oligarchs over the rest of us. The more affluent the target, the less they can be intimidated.
We see the same behavior throught history and still allow certain groups of people to became insanely independent and uncontrollable.

[yardwork]

13. This. Any woman who supports herself is frightening to them.

And lesbians raising children are especially frightening to insecure people.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. because then they don't need men

[VMA131Marine]

11. We are going to need re-education camps

to de-Trumpify the right wing of this country once Trump is finally gone.

[yardwork]

14. Not possible. The Trumpsters have always been with us.

They were the Klan, the John Birch Society, the Reagan Republicans, etc.

Nothing new.

[newdeal2]

15. Don't forget the church...

[PikaBlue]

16. I'm deeply offended

They need a more accurate acronym. Perhaps, AWFULEST: affluent, white, female, urban, liberal, educated, savvy, trustworthy.

[Pluvious]

17. GREAT response ! (nt.)

[1WorldHope]

18. Renee Good is awful dead.

Women who have any independence are dangerous witches in their little minds and should be burned at the stake. Same shit, different century.