Yeah, mainly, especially in recent decades, the word “hippie” is used as a negative judgement or attack. People who resent, fear and/or despise (what they label and insist is true about) “hippies” still are violently attached to their insistence on vilifying what is now almost entirely their own term.
i.e. It’s become a defensive conversation that their egos regurgitate to shame away from their thinking any thoughts entertaining that they’re own ego identity and life choices might not have been entirely authentic and fulfilling.
Kind of like how certain people who may tend to overlap that group somewhat, jump to label as “Communist / Socialist / Soviet / impossible / bad / wrong” (also in a Cold War era context) any suggestions of change to arch-capitalism.