1. To avoid taking personal responsibility by claiming that your errors were inevitable.
2. To flip the script on others, recasting yourself in the heroic role against the system which caused you to commit harm.
Baldwinizing does not require a legitimate change of opinion (like Morton Downey Jr. on smoking) or even a pretense of changing one's opinion (see Elridge Cleaver).
2. To flip the script on others, recasting yourself in the heroic role against the system which caused you to commit harm.
Baldwinizing does not require a legitimate change of opinion (like Morton Downey Jr. on smoking) or even a pretense of changing one's opinion (see Elridge Cleaver).
"We need to create a more robust welfare program to protect the children of single mothers like me from falling into the hood life" baldwinized Mr. Williamson upon his parole hearing, having earned his PhD. in Education and African Studies while serving a 25 year sentence for triple homicide. (He begins his tenure as a professor of Ethics at the Nebraska Coastal University on Tuesday.)
"We have to ban prop guns and switch to rubber guns" baldwinized the sweaty producer, "and I call on you pathetic sinners to fully support legislation to do so."
"We have to ban prop guns and switch to rubber guns" baldwinized the sweaty producer, "and I call on you pathetic sinners to fully support legislation to do so."
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N. Refers to the victory in the above situation itself.
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N. Refers to the victory in the above situation itself.
Also 'baldwinner': Refers to the individual who caused the baldwin to occur.
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