let's go, Darwin

English
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Etymology

Coined in response to let's go, Brandon, in allusion to Charles Darwin's law of natural selection.

Phrase

let's go, Darwin

  1. (US, slang) A phrase used to mock Republicans and other conservatives who disregard COVID-19 viral prevention measures.
    • 2021 December 19, Paul Campos, quoting Twitter user @g33kgurli, “This is a stupid conversation”, in Lawyers, Guns & Money‎, archived from the original on December 19, 2021:
      I’ll confess to getting a grim laugh from the Twitter handle of the person who embedded this highly educational video:
      “Let’s Go Darwin! (@g33kgurli) December 18, 2021 Perhaps the best clap back to antivaxxers and antimaskers.”
    • 2022, Mason Bissada, “Anti-Vaccine Mandate Protest: RFK Jr., Proud Boys And Holocaust Imagery”, in Forbes.com‎, archived from the original on January 23, 2022:
      Counterprotestors were seen by Washington Post reporter Emily Davies holding signs that read “HERE TO KNOCK A NAZI OUT,” and chanting “Let’s go Darwin,” a phrase used to counter the anti-Joe Biden cry “Let’s go Brandon.”

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