Why is "red meat" an insult?
Compulsion is Compulsion, no matter who does it. This is Brilliant Theft is Theft, no matter who does it. Freedom of Association has no room in it for *private* action that takes that away Freedom of Association. If I have a business and have voluntary associations such that I choose to serve some people and to not serve others, that might make me a jerk and it might lose me business, it might make me smart and it might gain me business, but it's got to be my choice. If I would normally serve the current disliked minority in my shop except for the fact that if I'm SEEN to serve them by the wrong people I'll have a private campaign against me as those people do everything possible to ruin me by preventing me from doing business physically or by attacking my customers or suppliers, then I am NOT free to make those choices. Does it really make a difference to losing my CHOICE to voluntarily associate if there's a law that says I may not serve "those people" o...
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As far as I can tell, when folks on the net talk about red meat, they are refering to feeding the emotions and desires of the people, generally in a connotatively negative fashion. Meaning feeding the negative desires of a people, such as hate or anger or some such.
Hate typically requires energy to sustain itself, and proteins is a good analogy for the process. "red" can also connotate a sense of rawness and pure nature, law of the jungle going on.