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To: Lane3 who wrote (19343)	5/21/2006 5:06:58 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541348

It was common on campus in the early 1980's when the left was just getting revved up against Reagan and his Central America policies but I assumed that it had its roots back in the 1960's; part of the whole anti-Establishment movement that said you were either on the progressive side for new solutions or you were a reactionary supporting the status quo. It was always used in the context of blocking progressive reforms. I don't have a particular author or movement I could attribute it to, however. I did find a couple of references to the 60's antiwar movement using it. www3.iath.virginia.edu