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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTime for a new word to add to the Lexicon of our times:
We need a term that can describe how some individuals will contort their reasoning skills in order to support and/or favor misbehavior in the people they relate to.
When I hear people on the right excuse Kavanaugh's outbursts by explaining, "they made him do it", it just brings back all the images of privilege that we have had to fight through.
And, it's time to give it its own term.
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Time for a new word to add to the Lexicon of our times: (Original Post)
Baitball Blogger
Oct 2018
OP
I think we need someone who specializes in Latin to find the right root words.
Baitball Blogger
Oct 2018
#2
I would start with tribal, but probably extend it to tribal protectionism.
Baitball Blogger
Oct 2018
#5
The Blue Flower
(5,447 posts)1. Something other than hypocrisy?
Unprincipled? Corrupt? Spineless?
Baitball Blogger
(46,769 posts)2. I think we need someone who specializes in Latin to find the right root words.
We need something that reflects extreme prejudicial favoritism + Machiavellism
Donkees
(31,481 posts)3. escape-gloating
escape-gloating - malignant scapegoating used to escape responsibility for self-control
Straw Man
(6,626 posts)4. I think the term "tribalism" works.
If you believe that "your people" can do no wrong, reason takes a back seat to group identity. It's always somebody else's fault.
Baitball Blogger
(46,769 posts)5. I would start with tribal, but probably extend it to tribal protectionism.