prebuttle noun an argument against something that has not yet been said
[Hilary Clinton’s] campaign actually issued a prebuttle yesterday, asking for Sanders to endorse some of her proposals.
[WNYC: WNYC News (US and local New York news) 05 January 2016]
Berniesplain verb informal (of Bernie Sanders supporters and staffers) to explain Bernie Sanders’s positions to African-American voters in a patronizing
way
Charles Blow wrote a column in the Times today saying, ‘stop Berniesplaining’, and that he found that very condescending to African Americans.
[WNYC: Brian Leherer Show (NYC public affairs talk show) 11 February 2016]
virtue signalling noun demonstrating that you are right-thinking in your politics, for example, by wearing a charity ribbon or by updating your profile on a social media website to signal your support for someone
This is all a rather roundabout way of getting to ‘virtue-signalling’, a phrase that began to spread via op-ed sections last year and proliferated rapidly on Twitter, and against which quarantine measures now urgently need to be taken.
[http://www.theguardian.com 20 January 2016]
Are You Guilty of “Virtue-Signaling?”
[http://acculturated.com 04 January 2016]
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