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Drinking the Kool-Aid" is most strongly believing in and accepting a deadly, deranged, or foolish ideology or concept based only upon the overpowering coaxing of another; the expression is also used to refer to a person who wrongly has faith in a possibly doomed or dangerous idea because of perceived potential high rewards. The phrase typically ...
Nov 18, 2014 · The first news reports made it sound like those who died in Jonestown did so by mass suicide, drinking cyanide-laced drinks (hence the offensive expression). It’s not true.
Jan 30, 2015 · Lexicon Valley. Is It Kosher to “Drink the Kool-Aid”? By Katy Waldman. Jan 30, 20159:00 AM. Safe to drink? Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Delano Las Vegas. A fuller linguistic...
May 23, 2015 · Flavor-Aid is the real culprit. The phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid" refers to the 1978 Jonestown massacre, in which more than 900 people committed mass suicide by drinking a flavored drink...
The event encoded itself into popular culture, spawning the expression "Drink the Kool-Aid" to describe someone who embraces cultish beliefs — although, it should be mentioned, it was a different brand of flavored beverage that Jones used to make the lethal drink, according to Tim Reiterman's 1982 book "Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim ...
Apr 10, 2019 · The Jonestown tragedy wasn’t a bunch of cult members “Drinking the Kool-Aid.” It was hundreds of people, many of them Black, who’d found a community with a message they could support. It was hundreds of people who believed they were headed in a direction of peace, equity, and inclusivity and instead were carefully and subtly led down ...
Apr 26, 2022 · The phrase to drink the Kool-Aidrefers:– to Kool-Aid, a proprietary name for a powdered concentrate which is added to water or another liquid to make a fruit-flavoured drink;– to a mass suicide, on Saturday 18th November 1978, by members of the Peoples’ Temple, a religious and political movement, in Jonestown, Guyana, who drank a cyanide ...
