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Accusation in a mirror, the Glossary

Accusation in a mirror (AiM) (also called mirror politics, mirror propaganda, mirror image propaganda, or a mirror argument) is a technique often used in the context of hate speech incitement, where one falsely attributes one's own motives and/or intentions to one's adversaries.^[1]

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Alison Des Forges

Alison Des Forges (née Liebhafsky; August 20, 1942 – February 12, 2009) was an American historian and human rights activist who specialized in the African Great Lakes region, particularly the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

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Armenian genocide

The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

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Ben Kiernan

Benedict F. "Ben" Kiernan (born 29 January 1953) is an Australian-born American historian who is the Whitney Griswold Professor Emeritus of History, Professor of International and Area Studies and Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University.

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Big lie

A big lie (große Lüge) is a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth primarily used as a political propaganda technique.

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Biological warfare

Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi with the intent to kill, harm or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war.

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Blood and Soil (book)

Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur is a 2007 book by Ben Kiernan, who for thirty years has studied genocide and crimes against humanity. Accusation in a mirror and Blood and Soil (book) are genocide.

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Bugesera invasion

The Bugesera invasion (French: Invasion de Bugesera), also known as the Bloody Christmas (French: Noël Rouge), was a military attack which was conducted against Rwanda by Inyenzi rebels who aimed to overthrow the government in December 1963.

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Christianity in Lebanon

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Clyde R. Miller

Clyde Raymond Miller (July 7, 1888 – August 29, 1977) was an associate professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University who co-founded the Institute for Propaganda Analysis with Edward A. Filene and Kirtley F. Mather in 1937.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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DARVO

DARVO (an acronym for "deny, attack, and reverse victim & offender") is a reaction that perpetrators of wrongdoing, such as sexual offenders, may display in response to being held accountable for their behavior.

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Dehumanization

Dehumanization is the denial of full humanity in others along with the cruelty and suffering that accompany it. Accusation in a mirror and Dehumanization are genocide.

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Fascism in Europe

Fascist movements in Europe were the set of various fascist ideologies which were practiced by governments and political organizations in Europe during the 20th century.

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Formal fallacy

In logic and philosophy, a formal fallacy, deductive fallacy, logical fallacy or non sequitur (it does not follow) is a pattern of reasoning rendered invalid by a flaw in its logical structure that can neatly be expressed in a standard logic system, for example propositional logic.

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Franz Eher Nachfolger

Franz Eher Nachfolger GmbH (Franz Eher and Successors, LLC, usually referred to as the Eher-Verlag (Eher Publishing)) was the central publishing house of the Nazi Party and one of the largest book and periodical firms during the Nazi regime.

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Frederick Winslow Taylor

Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 – March 21, 1915) was an American mechanical engineer.

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Gavin McInnes

Gavin Miles McInnes (born 17 July 1970) is a Canadian writer, podcaster, far-right commentator and founder of the Proud Boys.

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Genocide

Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people, either in whole or in part.

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Genocide Convention

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), or the Genocide Convention, is an international treaty that criminalizes genocide and obligates state parties to pursue the enforcement of its prohibition. Accusation in a mirror and genocide Convention are genocide.

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Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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German Workers' Party

The German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP) was a short-lived far-right political party established in Weimar Germany after World War I. It only lasted from 5 January 1919 until 24 February 1920.

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Gitarama Province

Gitarama was one of the former twelve provinces (intara) of Rwanda and was situated in the centre of the country, to the west of the capital Kigali.

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Gregory Gordon (lawyer)

Gregory S. Gordon is an American professor and scholar of international law and former Legal Officer for the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICTR.

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Hate speech

Hate speech is a term with varied meaning and has no single, consistent definition. Accusation in a mirror and Hate speech are speech crimes.

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HIV/AIDS

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.

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How Fascism Works

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them is a 2018 nonfiction book by Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.

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Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy is the practice of feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not.

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Iğdır Genocide Memorial and Museum

Iğdır Genocide Memorial and Museum (Turkish: Iğdır Soykırım Anıt-Müzesi) is a memorial-museum complex in Iğdır, Turkey.

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Incitement to genocide

Incitement to genocide is a crime under international law which prohibits inciting (encouraging) the commission of genocide. Accusation in a mirror and Incitement to genocide are genocide, hate speech, Inchoate offenses and speech crimes.

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Institute for Propaganda Analysis

The Institute for Propaganda Analysis (IPA) was a U.S.-based organization operating from 1937 to 1942, composed of social scientists, opinion leaders, historians, educators, and journalists.

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International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR; Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda; Urukiko Mpanabyaha Mpuzamahanga Rwashyiriweho u Rwanda) was an international court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 955 in order to adjudicate people charged for the Rwandan genocide and other serious violations of international law in Rwanda, or by Rwandan citizens in nearby states, between 1 January and 31 December 1994.

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International Federation for Human Rights

The International Federation for Human Rights (Fédération internationale pour les droits humains; FIDH) is a non-governmental federation for human rights organizations.

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Israel Defense Forces

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym, is the national military of the State of Israel.

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Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Иван Петрович Павлов,; 27 February 1936) was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs.

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Jean-Paul Akayesu

Jean-Paul Akayesu (born 1953 in Taba) is a former teacher, school inspector, and Republican Democratic Movement (MDR) politician from Rwanda, convicted of genocide for his role in inciting the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.

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Jill Dougherty

Jill Dougherty (born 1949) is an American journalist and academic.

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Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945.

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Juvénal Habyarimana

Juvénal Habyarimana (8 March 19376 April 1994) was a Rwandan politician and military officer who was the second president of Rwanda, from 1973 until his assassination in 1994.

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Kangura

Kangura was a Kinyarwanda and French-language magazine in Rwanda that served to stoke ethnic hatred in the run-up to the Rwandan genocide. Accusation in a mirror and Kangura are Incitement to genocide.

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Kataeb Party

The Kataeb Party, officially the Kataeb Party – Lebanese Social Democratic Party (حزب الكتائب اللبنانية - الحزب الديمقراطي الاجتماعي اللبناني), also known as the Phalanges, is a right-wing Christian political party in Lebanon founded by Pierre Gemayel in 1936.

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe.

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Kenneth L. Marcus

Kenneth L. Marcus is an American attorney, academic, and government official.

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Kofi Annan

Kofi Atta Annan (8 April 193818 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006.

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Léon Mugesera

Léon Mugesera (born 1952) is a convicted genocidaire from Rwanda who took residence in Quebec, Canada.

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Lokman Slim

Lokman Mohsen Slim (17 July 1962 – 4 February 2021) was a Lebanese Shiite publisher, political activist and commentator, who promoted a Culture of Remembrance to cope with the many past and present conflicts of Lebanon and the whole region.

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Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Loyola University Chicago School of Law is the law school of Loyola University Chicago, in Illinois.

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Montgomery, Alabama

Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County.

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Nazi Party

The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.

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Operation Denver

Operation Denver (sometimes referred to as "Operation INFEKTION") was an active measure disinformation campaign run by the KGB in the 1980s to plant the idea that the United States had invented HIV/AIDS as part of a biological weapons research project at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Palestinian refugee camps

Camps are set up by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to accommodate Palestinian refugees registered with UNRWA, who fled or were expelled during the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War or in the aftermath of the Six-Day War in 1967, and their patrilineal descendants.

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Palestinians

Palestinians (al-Filasṭīniyyūn) or Palestinian people (label), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs (label), are an Arab ethnonational group native to Palestine.

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Politics of the Soviet Union

The political system of the Soviet Union took place in a federal single-party soviet socialist republic framework which was characterized by the superior role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the only party permitted by the Constitution.

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Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

In March and April 2021, prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces began massing thousands of personnel and military equipment near Russia's border with Ukraine and in Crimea, representing the largest mobilisation since the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014.

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Protests of 1968

The protests of 1968 comprised a worldwide escalation of social conflicts, which were predominantly characterized by the rise of left-wing politics, anti-war sentiment, civil rights urgency, youth counterculture within the silent and baby boomer generations, and popular rebellions against state militaries and bureaucracies.

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Proud Boys

The Proud Boys is an exclusively male North American far-right, neo-fascist militant organization that promotes and engages in political violence. Accusation in a mirror and Proud Boys are hate speech.

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Psychological projection

Psychological projection is a defence mechanism of alterity concerning "inside" ''content'' mistaken to be coming from the "outside" Other.

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Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines

italic (RTLM) (Radiyo yigenga y'imisozi igihumbi) was a Rwandan radio station which broadcast from July 8, 1993, to July 31, 1994. Accusation in a mirror and radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines are Incitement to genocide.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Roméo Dallaire

Roméo Antonius Dallaire (born June 25, 1946) is a retired Canadian politician and military officer who was a senator from Quebec from 2005 to 2014, and a lieutenant-general in the Canadian Armed Forces.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Rwandan genocide

The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred between 7 April and 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War.

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Sabra and Shatila massacre

The Sabra and Shatila massacre was the 16–18 September 1982 killing of between 1,300 and 3,500 civiliansmostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shiasin the city of Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War.

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Self-defense

Self-defense (self-defence primarily in Commonwealth English) is a countermeasure that involves defending the health and well-being of oneself from harm.

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Sergei Chakhotin

Sergei Stepanovich Chakhotin (13 September 1883 – 24 December 1973) was a Russian biologist, sociologist and social democrat.

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Shatila refugee camp

The Shatila refugee camp (مخيمشاتيلا), also known as the Chatila refugee camp, is a settlement originally set up for Palestinian refugees in 1949.

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.

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Southern Poverty Law Center

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation.

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Susan Benesch

Susan Benesch (born 1964) is an American journalist and scholar of speech who is known for founding the Dangerous Speech Project.

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Taba commune

Taba was a commune located in the historic Gitarama Prefecture of Rwanda.

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The Authoritarian Personality is a 1950 sociology book by Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford, researchers working at the University of California, Berkeley, during and shortly after World War II.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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The New Arab

The New Arab or Al-Araby Al-Jadeed (العربي الجديد) is a London-based pan-Arab news outlet owned by Qatari company Fadaat Media.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Thomas Rid

Thomas Rid (born 1975 in Aach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) is a political scientist best known for his work on the history and risks of information technology in conflict.

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Tu quoque

Tu quoque (you also) is a discussion technique that intends to discredit the opponent's argument by attacking the opponent's own personal behavior and actions as being inconsistent with their argument, so that the opponent is hypocritical.

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Tutsi

The Tutsi, also called Watusi, Watutsi or Abatutsi, are an ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region.

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Ukraine bioweapons conspiracy theory

In March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian officials falsely claimed that public health facilities in Ukraine were "secret U.S.-funded biolabs" purportedly developing biological weapons, which was debunked as disinformation by multiple media outlets, scientific groups, and international bodies.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror

Also known as Accusation en miroir, Accusation in a mirror (rhetoric), Accusations en miroir, Accusations in a mirror, Mirror argument, Mirror image propaganda, Mirror politics, Mirror propaganda.

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See also

Inchoate offenses

Incitement to genocide

Speech crimes

References