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In the mid-19th century, there were people who wanted full citizenship for women, black people, and Jews. There were also people who wanted to keep things the way they were.
The latter group must have had a derisive term for the former, #sjw avant la lettre, you might say. What was this term?
@arensb Interesting thought, but the Google ngram viewer indicates “uppity” didn’t get started til about a century ago.
@wrenpile Thanks. I didn't know that. I guess "uppity woman" would be an epithet for a suffragette, and "uppity n-----" would have been used during the civil rights era.
As for what they said in the 1860s, I don't know, though I'd be curious to find out.
@wrenpile
Uppity women, maybe?