An attitude Stetson Kennedy recommended to tackle with bigoted speech. He coined the term, when he started a campaign with that name in the 1940s, which simply encouraged people to pointedly frown when they heard hate speech, which lead Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt to say that he was "the greatest single contributor to the weakening of the Ku Klux Klan."

Intelligence agency term for "psychological operation". A government or corporate-sponsored operation, usually taking the form of a "terrorist attack" or "crazed gunman on a spree", with the intent of panicking the public into demanding more police and laws inhibiting freedom. Psyops are usually carried out by drugging a civilian or group of civilians with aggression-promoting drugs, psyching them up, arming them, and sending them out to commit mayhem. Government-sponsored terrorism. See also blackshirts, conspiracy