by Pshaw May 17, 2005
Get the politics mug.Refers to attempts by marginalized groups to police their own members and show their social values as being continuous and compatible with mainstream values rather than challenging the mainstream for its failure to accept difference.
Person 1: If black people get an education, pull up their pants, and stop committing crimes, then they will never have to worry about negative encounters with the police.
Person 2: Please can that respectability politics mess. James Blake went to Harvard, was a star athlete, and never committed a crime, but that didn't prevent an officer in the NYPD from tackling and body slamming him to the ground.
Person 2: Please can that respectability politics mess. James Blake went to Harvard, was a star athlete, and never committed a crime, but that didn't prevent an officer in the NYPD from tackling and body slamming him to the ground.
by Hiram Getz November 5, 2015
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by ZQ December 28, 2005
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it's when you are presented with no more than two choices ever as though there were only two sides or only two possible positions on all of life's most complex issues...
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both sides are really screwed up but one of them acts like it's never ever wrong and this works to tug at the heart strings of soccer moms and ignorant but well meaning kids and gain their sympathies
it's when you are presented with no more than two choices ever as though there were only two sides or only two possible positions on all of life's most complex issues...
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both sides are really screwed up but one of them acts like it's never ever wrong and this works to tug at the heart strings of soccer moms and ignorant but well meaning kids and gain their sympathies
politics is really screwed up
by fock you assholes February 11, 2007
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by ladida_guy March 29, 2017
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