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Yet another reason parenting should require a license.

The old "men in MAGA hats" excuse... oldest trick in the book.

It replaced "Dog ate my homework" excuse

If most liberals are super-fast to believe anything negative about men in MAGA hats, then it sure seems like an easy way out to blame them.

There should be a term for this historically common phenomenon: "getting out of trouble by blaming someone that many people are looking for a reason to hate anyway".

What should we call it?

rando says

If most liberals are super-fast to believe anything negative about men in MAGA hats, then it sure seems like an easy way out to blame them.

There should be a term for this historically common phenomenon: "getting out of trouble by blaming someone that many people are looking for a reason to hate anyway".

What should we call it?

The first example that comes to mind are Jews in Nazi Germany. They sure liked to blame the Jews for everything!
But that can't be right... THESE fascists say they're protesting fascism! So, uh, mulligan?

The 9th circuit will rule that Trump is responsible for it.

It's called scapegoating. Can you think of any political group who did that? Maybe one that was known for their brown shirts? The left is evolving into its natural end, fascism.

rando says

If most liberals are super-fast to believe anything negative about men in MAGA hats, then it sure seems like an easy way out to blame them.

There should be a term for this historically common phenomenon: "getting out of trouble by blaming someone that many people are looking for a reason to hate anyway".

What should we call it?

Quigley says

The first example that comes to mind are Jews in Nazi Germany. They sure liked to blame the Jews for everything!

Yes, that's one example.

And in Pakistan, if you want to get rid of your business competition, you just accuse them of defiling the Koran. Even better if the competition happens to be Christian or Sikh. Everyone will just believe it without question, or will at the very least be afraid to say "woah, maybe this is motivated by business rivalry" lest they themselves get stoned by the wahhabi wackos.

rando says

What should we call it?

On a Venn diagram, the pattern of Muslims making up stories about imaginary "racists" would occupy the intersection of taqiyyeh and scapegoating, but a more specific term might help. Maybe "Muslying:" she and her brother both Muslied to create a distraction and escape punishment for their own crimes. Similarly, the Saudi/Sudanese "refugee" jihadi who claimed he was born in the year he had turned 12.

rando says

Everyone will just believe it without question, or will at the very least be afraid to say "woah, maybe this is motivated by business rivalry" lest they themselves get stoned by the wahhabi wackos.

That reminds me of the story of Asiaa Bibi. I don't know what everyone actually believed, but the court convicted the Christian:

"Maafia was one of a group of about four women who accused Bibi, also known as Aasiya Noreen, who is Christian, of insulting the prophet Muhammad during a row in a field 18 months ago. But she will not specify what Bibi actually said, because to repeat the words would itself be blasphemy. And so Bibi was sentenced to hang on mere hearsay – a Kafkaesque twist that seems to bother few in Itanwali, a village 30 miles outside Lahore."

Accusers don't even need to quote the defendant. The court does not judge whether the statements were blasphemy or not. It is enough that the Muslims claiming to have witnessed the alleged blasphemy agree that it was blasphemy.

rando says

What should we call it?

Blame-splaining