Proverb, used when describing the motivation behind an action as being caused by a individual or group's opinion, rather than other factors.
"my biggest gripe is how idiots hop into subreddits and get them shut down because they were posting shit that wasn't allowed in the Reddit TOS (or someone saw it and reported it, which resulted in some overzealous asshole moderator shutting them down over political or opinionational reasons." - Me, on reddit, when I needed a word to describe this sort of motivation but could not think of a word for it, 3/17/2021
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)