• GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    3 hours ago

    Where does the word travelers come from? I have it as an ear worm from a book or something

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      Fellow travelers is a phrase used to denote someone who pushes or encourages an ideology or opinion without officially being part of the organization pushing it. It was originally applied to communist sympathizers but is used for other things commonly. A race science believer might be a fellow traveler with nazis but doesn’t have to be a member of the nationalist socialist workers party.