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
Get the respectability politics mug.A school system where all decisions are political and renders the entire educational environment stagnant and regressive. An atmosphere characterized by an uneducated school board who makes decisions based on what is politically popular than what is correct for children.
This type of mindset and action leaves the system in a hopeless state of confusion.
This type of mindset and action leaves the system in a hopeless state of confusion.
Teacher#1: "What is the name of that school where the school board is the laughing stock of Oklahoma?"
Teacher#2: "Pawhuska, Oklahoma. That place is nothing but a mess of good old boy politics."
Teacher#1: "What a politischool crap hole!"
Teacher#2: "Pawhuska, Oklahoma. That place is nothing but a mess of good old boy politics."
Teacher#1: "What a politischool crap hole!"
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A politician who will sell out their constituents if it means they might get one step higher on the ladder. They will completely flip-flop on an issue that was the core of their campaign platform just because they think it might help them get elected to, for instance, Lake Forest City Council. They will even sell out the person who threw them proxies to get them into office. They become so "whoreish" that in the end, they are so slutty and nasty that nobody will touch them with a ten foot ballot.
Did you hear Terri voted "No" to approve the Committee members to the Overcrowded Housing Ad Hoc Committee? I voted for her because she promised she'd be tough on the Clown House crisis in our HOA. What a Political Whore!
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Get the Politics mug.One who is a registered voter and politically informed, but is basically indifferent and non-committal toward the popular political parties (Democrat or Republican in the US). Probably believes that the political parties are so ideologically similar and so mired in their own bureaucracy that they have outlived their usefulness. Voting straight-ticket out of allegiance to a political party would be considered heresy.
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