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. When someone known as the mouth of the south starts talking about other people's mouths, you have hypocrisy at its worst.
The mouth of the south wants to preach about other people's mouths now, hypocrisy doesn't get any worse.
by Solid Mantis April 3, 2020
Get the Hypocrisymug. Imagine Hippo #1 eating a cucumber then hippo #2 walks in the room and says "HEY! NO EATING CUCUMBERS!"
Ten minutes later.....
Hippo #1 walks in on hippo #2 eating 74 cucumbers and screams "you are a hippo that did hypocrisy. You Hippocrate."
Ten minutes later.....
Hippo #1 walks in on hippo #2 eating 74 cucumbers and screams "you are a hippo that did hypocrisy. You Hippocrate."
by imlukeyboi204 June 28, 2021
Get the Hypocrisymug. Is how you know that your competence game is just "It's not arbitrary. I deserve it."
Hym "How is not answering the question 'What is a woman?' any different than not answering the question 'Do you believe in God?' So, we grant both of you the moral right not answer questions selectively for your own preservation. But if where they go too far is celebrating it as a victory for equity and inclusion then how do they not go too far in celebrating you as a prophet? It's blatant hypocrisy. Where does it come from? Well, it comes from me being right. You are incapable of adhering to your own ethic and your ethic is entirely predicated on 'This is what OTHER people SHOULD do' thinking. But it isn't what you do. Do you believe people should be credited for their work? Well, you could say 'Well, you didn't do it.' and that is irrelevant. YOU act out YOUR ethic.
Hym "How is not answering the question 'What is a woman?' any different than not answering the question 'Do you believe in God?' So, we grant both of you the moral right not answer questions selectively for your own preservation. But if where they go too far is celebrating it as a victory for equity and inclusion then how do they not go too far in celebrating you as a prophet? It's blatant hypocrisy. Where does it come from? Well, it comes from me being right. You are incapable of adhering to your own ethic and your ethic is entirely predicated on 'This is what OTHER people SHOULD do' thinking. But it isn't what you do. Do you believe people should be credited for their work? Well, you could say 'Well, you didn't do it.' and that is irrelevant. YOU act out YOUR ethic.
Why is your adherence to your own ethic dependant on the perceived ethic of those you are dealing with? That's just the platinum rule. And you could say 'Well, I'm only doing it to you' but no, you fail to act in accordance with your own ethic at your leisure. Therefore, you have no ethic outside of the platinum rule (which is not a proposition as much as it is an observation). And now you can say 'Well, I'm competent and have the moral authority to determine when my behavior is allowed to be incongruent with my ethical propositions.' but that would mean it's a conscious choice rather than the imperfect nature of man. You are exempting yourself from rules of your own creation. Which is just 'doing whatever you want.' 'I do what I want and other people should accept my propositions because the world would be better if it worked this way. With me doing what I want and others doing what I tell them.' And you've already established that you would enforce it if you had the power to do so because I'm giving you that power and that is what you're doing. Hypocrisy.
by Hym Iam August 1, 2022
Get the Hypocrisymug.