When a political party or individual attempts to win favour by scapegoating minorities during times of recession etc. Yes, I know, it what's all politcians do all the time to some degree, but when it is marked, i.e. Hitler, what is the word?
― Tongham Hobbs, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 08:47 (sixteen years ago)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics ?
― resident advice whore (haitch), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 09:03 (sixteen years ago)
There ain't nothing dog whistle about the Nuremburg Laws
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 09:44 (sixteen years ago)
It's not that, resident advisor, but that is surely in the ballpark, along with "sophistry" and all things specious.
Oh, it's bugging me -- it's a word I used to know and use occasionally... but I am getting old I suppose.
― Tongham Hobbs, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 09:53 (sixteen years ago)
Nor is the word I'm trying to find "propaganda", BTW.
UKIP are definitely guilty of this word I am trying to find.
― Tongham Hobbs, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 09:57 (sixteen years ago)
"Demagoguery"! Found it in the social sciences Wiki entry.
Fry and Laurie's episode 2 makes a funny allusion:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Bit_Of_Fry_And_Laurie
― Tongham Hobbs, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 10:12 (sixteen years ago)
'Othering' is all I can think of, but it seems like a bit of a loose fit.
x-post - oh, there you go.
― Dom Cry For Me, Passantino (NickB), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 10:13 (sixteen years ago)
Thanks Dom Cry, I really have been round the loose houses, "firebrand" etc, but "othering" is not one I thought of, in fact.
― Tongham Hobbs, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 10:18 (sixteen years ago)
I hate it when a word escapes me temporarily, or worse when I lose an obscure word I thought I'd learnt. I'm still lamenting a word that Jools Holland mentioned on one of his "Later" shows (circa 93?). The word in question meant "sad ballad", or maybe just "ballad" without being qualified by "sad".
― Tongham Hobbs, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 10:28 (sixteen years ago)
lachrymose?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 10:31 (sixteen years ago)
Threnody?
― Alba, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 11:03 (sixteen years ago)
ft. justin timberlake?
― ╓abies, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 11:36 (sixteen years ago)
Well, there's "mobbing," which is what birds, schoolchildren and ILXors do.
― M.V., Tuesday, 10 March 2009 14:14 (sixteen years ago)
muddleflumping
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 14:39 (sixteen years ago)
Snollygosters
― Tongham Hobbs, Sunday, 22 March 2009 19:36 (sixteen years ago)
horkywaddle
― kenan, Sunday, 22 March 2009 19:38 (sixteen years ago)
Sedition!
― Tongham Hobbs, Sunday, 10 January 2010 13:53 (fifteen years ago)
The word in question meant "sad ballad", or maybe just "ballad" without being qualified by "sad"
Dithyramb?
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Sunday, 10 January 2010 13:55 (fifteen years ago)