A special case of a strawman argument in which, after being criticized for being hypocritical, one intentionally mischaracterizes the criticism as being an additional layer of hypocrisy.
Person A) "It's pure hypocrisy that after being so concerned with Hillary's private emails, Republicans are shrugging after we find out Ivanka Trump has been sending official White House business emails from a private account."
Person B: "Oh, what? So you were perfectly fine with Hillary doing it, but you care all of a sudden when Ivanka does it? It's YOU who's a hypocrite."
Person A: "Don't pull that retroactive hypocrisy on me. I didn't say anything about my own approval or disapproval of either Hillary or Ivanka."
Person B: "Oh, what? So you were perfectly fine with Hillary doing it, but you care all of a sudden when Ivanka does it? It's YOU who's a hypocrite."
Person A: "Don't pull that retroactive hypocrisy on me. I didn't say anything about my own approval or disapproval of either Hillary or Ivanka."
by bwseventytwo November 19, 2018
Get the Retroactive hypocrisymug. Transparent hypocrisy - like preaching temperance from a bar stool; C-SPAN (seen all those televised proceedings that were promised during the election campaigns?);
- like claiming to be a patriot while giving aid and comfort to the enemy (raising a question about whether the Supreme court decision might somehow eventually allow an imbalance in citizens rights while granting a non-citizen terrorist the full legal rights of a citizen)
- is like worrying about global warming, but not about your globetrotting airplane habit or mansion-sized electric bill
- like claiming to be a patriot while giving aid and comfort to the enemy (raising a question about whether the Supreme court decision might somehow eventually allow an imbalance in citizens rights while granting a non-citizen terrorist the full legal rights of a citizen)
- is like worrying about global warming, but not about your globetrotting airplane habit or mansion-sized electric bill
by op_position February 5, 2010
Get the transparent hypocrisymug. When a country blamed other nations for using their own state-funded vaccines to expand their political and economic influence across the world, and now it is doing the same thing, by promising to donate millions of vaccine doses to developing nations to make up for its geopolitical losses, which arose due to fake political leadership.
To counter China’s and Russia’s vaccine diplomacy in the developing world, the US has succumbed to vaccine hypocrisy, as it plans to donate half a billion Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses globally as a desperate attempt to resurrect its comatose leadership on the world stage.
by MathPlus June 10, 2021
Get the Vaccine Hypocrisymug. The Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP) is also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP) or the Republican party also known as the Repugnicant Party. They say one thing and do another. Their stated ideology is completely intellectually inconsistent and filled with hypocrisy.
The Grand Hypocrisy Party says that they believe in small government, yet what they mean is small enough to fit into your bedroom and personal life where they insist on legislating their own narrow minded morality. They say they believe in fiscal discipline, complain about deficit spending, yet advocate tax cuts for the top 2% of the ultra wealthy and yet don't even pretend to offer a way to pay for them. They say they believe in the Constitution yet have acted to undercut the Constitutional rights of the People and advocate amending the Constitution and abolishing Amendments that guarantee people fundamental rights!
by jmspaesq October 30, 2010
Get the Grand Hypocrisy Partymug. A guy who beats the shit out of his wife and wins a baseball game in the same day has accomplished 2 things that day, one considered (agreed to be) by most people to be negative, the other positive. You could ask OJ about what that's like, nobody thinks of OJ without thinking of a criminal, people hardly remember he played football too. If you're gonna judge one book by its cover, shouldn't you judge all books by their covers? The same people who don't think each person is different are usually the ones telling people not to judge books by their covers, and that there's more than meets the eye in the first place (except with guys like OJ or wife beating baseball players, for some reason they think you should judge certain people if they tell you to do so). They tell you don't underestimate them, but its fine if you ridicule others.
Judging one kind of book by its cover and not another is hypocrisy. Since everyone's a hypocrite, everyone would have a cause to investigate hypocrisy in others.
by Solid Mantis January 13, 2020
Get the Hypocrisymug. Scientists are among the least socially responsible people around, and they're telling people about taking things seriously and common sense. Hypocrisy is hypocrisy for the rest of us hypocrites.
by Solid Mantis July 31, 2020
Get the Hypocrisymug. **Crybaby Hypocrisy** refers to individuals who harbor intense feelings of hatred toward President Trump but do not exhibit the same scrutiny or disdain for their local politicians.
This term also applies to those who become visibly enraged when discussing Trump yet are unaware of who their state representatives are or what bills are currently under consideration
This term also applies to those who become visibly enraged when discussing Trump yet are unaware of who their state representatives are or what bills are currently under consideration
DAMN, MY FUCKING PROPERTY TAXES WENT UP!!!! FUCK YOUUUU TRUMMMPPPP.
ALL WHILE YOUR STATE LOST SOME FUNDING BECAUSE of their careless spending and dosent know how to function.
A better example is:
WHO IS YOUR PRESIDENT?
THAT IDIOT TRUMP
WHOS YOUR STATE SENATOR?
I DONT KNOW
Dude thats Crybaby Hypocrisy.
ALL WHILE YOUR STATE LOST SOME FUNDING BECAUSE of their careless spending and dosent know how to function.
A better example is:
WHO IS YOUR PRESIDENT?
THAT IDIOT TRUMP
WHOS YOUR STATE SENATOR?
I DONT KNOW
Dude thats Crybaby Hypocrisy.
by Kory Brooks May 31, 2025
Get the CRYBABY HYPOCRISYmug.