Figleaf (linguistics), the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 18 relations: Defund the police, Discrimination, Dog whistle (politics), Double standard, Ezra Klein, Hashtag, In-group and out-group, In-group favoritism, Jennifer Saul, Linguistics, Motte-and-bailey fallacy, No justice, no peace, Oxford University Press, Plausible deniability, Political spectrum, Sarah Jeong, Twitter, Vox Media.

2. Political campaign techniques

Defund the police

In the United States, "defund the police" is a slogan that supports removing funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, healthcare and other community resources.

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Discrimination

Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, religion, physical attractiveness or sexual orientation.

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Dog whistle (politics)

In politics, a dog whistle is the use of coded or suggestive language in political messaging to garner support from a particular group without provoking opposition. Figleaf (linguistics) and dog whistle (politics) are Euphemisms, political campaign techniques and political communication.

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Double standard

A double standard is the application of different sets of principles for situations that are, in principle, the same.

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Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein (born May 9, 1984) is an American journalist, political analyst, New York Times columnist, and the host of The Ezra Klein Show podcast.

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Hashtag

A hashtag is a metadata tag that is prefaced by the hash symbol, #. On social media, hashtags are used on microblogging and photo-sharing services such as Twitter or Tumblr as a form of user-generated tagging that enables cross-referencing of content by topic or theme.

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In-group and out-group

In social psychology and sociology, an in-group is a social group to which a person psychologically identifies as being a member.

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In-group favoritism

In-group favoritism, sometimes known as in-group–out-group bias, in-group bias, intergroup bias, or in-group preference, is a pattern of favoring members of one's in-group over out-group members.

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Jennifer Saul

Jennifer Mather Saul (born 19 February 1968) is a philosopher working in philosophy of language and philosophy of feminism.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language.

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Motte-and-bailey fallacy

The motte-and-bailey fallacy (named after the motte-and-bailey castle) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy where an arguer conflates two positions that share similarities, one modest and easy to defend (the "motte") and one much more controversial and harder to defend (the "bailey").

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No justice, no peace

"No justice, no peace" is a political slogan which originated during protests against acts of ethnic violence against African Americans.

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Oxford University Press

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

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Plausible deniability

Plausible deniability is the ability of people, typically senior officials in a formal or informal chain of command, to deny knowledge of or responsibility for actions committed by or on behalf of members of their organizational hierarchy. Figleaf (linguistics) and Plausible deniability are Euphemisms.

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Political spectrum

A political spectrum is a system to characterize and classify different political positions in relation to one another.

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Sarah Jeong

Sarah Jeong (born 1988) is an American journalist specializing in information technology law and other technology-related topics.

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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Vox Media, Inc. is an American mass media company founded in Washington, D.C. with operational headquarters in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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See also

Political campaign techniques

• Astroturfing
• Attack ad
• Borealism
• Branding national myths and symbols
• Cambridge Analytica
• Campaign advertising
• Campaign plan
• Catalist
• Character assassination
• Chicken George (politics)
• Dead cat strategy
• Dog whistle (politics)
• Election interference
• Election subversion
• Empty chair debating
• Fearmongering
• Figleaf (linguistics)
• Filibuster
• Filibuster in the United States Senate
• Google bombing
• Lawn sign
• Lesser of two evils principle
• Likeability trap
• Microtargeting
• Name recognition
• Narrowcasting
• Negative campaigning
• News leak
• ORCA (computer system)
• Opposition research
• Post-truth politics
• Project Houdini
• Project Narwhal
• Psychographics
• Push poll
• Rage-baiting
• Shadow campaigns in the United States
• Sign war
• Simulmatics Corporation
• Smear campaign
• Southern strategy
• State-sponsored Internet propaganda
• Swiftboating
• Voter suppression
• Westminster Digital
• WhatsApp snooping scandal
• Whispering campaign

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figleaf_(linguistics)

Also known as Gender figleaf, Linguistic figleaf, Racial figleaf.