NYT: AWFUL ( Affluent White Female Urban Liberal ) [View all]

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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.”

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