In contemporary Thai politics, salim is a Thai slang referring to people who are skeptics of democracy and supports the military's involvement in politics. Politicist Surachart Bamrungsuk saw salims as representatives of right wing middle class. The term initially referred to the "multicoloured shirts" as a reference to the colourful Thai dessert sarim and was considered by some as a pejorative. It later included other people outside the "multicoloured shirts" as well. The term has been used on mainstream media by 2011. In late February 2020, the term gained popularity following the Thai Constitutional Court's order to disband the pro-democracy Future Forward Party. Students, seeing the order as a political abuse, began to use hashtags including the term salim as their online activism against the ruling.