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[[False advocacy]] is the act of using one's defense of a perceived [[underdog]] as a shield behind which to hide unethical activities. Rather than seeking to improve relations between the underdog group and everyone else, false advocates will often inflame opinion on both sides -- inflate fears of persecution within the underdog group, while exaggerating claims or actions of the underdog group so that others outside that group will have reason to dislike the underdog. | [[False advocacy]] is the act of using one's defense of a perceived [[underdog]] as a shield behind which to hide unethical activities. Rather than seeking to improve relations between the underdog group and everyone else, false advocates will often inflame opinion on both sides -- inflate fears of persecution within the underdog group, while exaggerating claims or actions of the underdog group so that others outside that group will have reason to dislike the underdog. | ||
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Revision as of 18:27, 24 May 2011
About
False advocacy is the act of using one's defense of a perceived underdog as a shield behind which to hide unethical activities. Rather than seeking to improve relations between the underdog group and everyone else, false advocates will often inflame opinion on both sides -- inflate fears of persecution within the underdog group, while exaggerating claims or actions of the underdog group so that others outside that group will have reason to dislike the underdog.
Related
False advocacy is a technique commonly used in powermongery.
Examples
People and organizations practicing false advocacy include:
- Bill Donohue, head of the Catholic League, drums up anti-Catholic sentiment through aggressive extrapolation of Catholic doctrine while supposedly working to improve relations between Catholics and non-Catholics
- The Israel lobby (e.g. AIPAC) uses the Jewish and Israeli peoples as a shield for their aggressive stance against Palestine -- while inflaming anti-Israel sentiment by those same actions. Many people will automatically defend actions of the Israeli government as if they were synonymous with the Jewish people, who suffered horribly in the Holocaust and have a long history of being persecuted. Any criticism of the Israeli government can thus be brushed off or attacked as Holocaust denial or some other form of anti-Jewish sentiment.