Meaning of me-tooism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of following or taking on a policy of another (especially competing) person or political party.
   countable, derogatory, informal, uncountable
2. The tendency to do or say the same as somebody else; the tendency to follow something that is trendy.
   broadly, countable, derogatory, informal, uncountable

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Examples

“Next week's programme is one of peculiar interest. The following questions are announced for debate: The origin of "Me-tooism" in politics and "Too-tooism" in æsthetics, with reference to the study of modern history.”

“Senator [Arthur] Vandenberg answered critics who say the bipartisan foreign policy has produced mere Republican “me tooism” with the assertion that unity is vital if any policy is to get results. He declared: “If that's ‘me tooism’, then any unity is me tooism.””

“For some elections past the Republican party has appeared to be acting on the fatuous theory that it could lure the labor leaders away from their Democratic alliance. Of all the "metooisms" that the Republicans have committed this one was the most transparent and the least effective.”

“I believe [Dean] Rusk has abdicated. Rusk merely follows [Robert] McNamara. It is McNamara who is calling the shots in South Vietnam. [...] The South Vietnamese program is McNamara's program. I am not interested in Rusk's "me-too-isms" in regard to it.”

“Having [Richard] Nixon woo the hard-shell Republicans and ardent anti-Communists and pleasing [Robert Alphonso] Taft and [Joseph] McCarthy, however useful for expunging "me-tooism" from the campaign, constantly threatened to jeopardize the greatest potential source of [Dwight David] Eisenhower's political strength: that fickle, uncommitted, apolitical, independent vote.”

“For some time there has ceased to be any significant difference between the Democrats and the Republicans; they are best thought of as two branches of the same party. [...] The depoliticization of most of the American intelligensia merely reflects the conformism and convergence—the "me-tooism"—of political life in general.”

“Republican domestic stands of the time were called "me-tooism," saying about each of the popular domestic innovations of FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] and the Democrats, "we support that too."”

“In socialist societies, there is a ‘me tooism’, a complex which startles the sensitive observer. Here despite social controls, the cities rise like jungles, the traffic jams are consciously sought, and so are the wasteful standards. No genuine alternative is posed. The choice before man remains what it has always been—conform or perish.”

“One of the things that characterizes the snack food industry in the United States is the sense of “metooism” that generally pervades the product mix. Though there might be slight variations in flavors, there is a sameness in virtually every snack company's line, starting with potato chips and ending with popped pork rinds.”

“Workers may be so concerned with reading the boss's mind and supporting group consensus that ideas become conservative and timid. The Japanese work hard in general, of course, but the same group atmosphere which encourages this type of enthusiasm can also encourage conformity; a form of "me tooism" develops.”

“But I would like to say to you that, while the 1970’s were very much the age of the me-too-ism, of I’ve got mine, of all of the conflicts in this country, and while the 1980’s are very much an era of great change in our society, with new technologies and new opportunities, the 1990’s will be the era of creativity.”

“[S]uch gestures smack of the politics of ‘me-tooism’; don’t leave me (i.e., women) out. While it is absolutely right that feminist concerns should not be disregarded, begging for space at the pluralist table misrepresents the value of feminist thought in addressing the central concerns of the workshop.”

“[T]he solutions were almost exclusively the product of half-understood ‘me-too-isms’ based upon what they felt the competition were doing.”

“[A]dvertising is replete with testimonials and "me-tooisms" that reflect the power of the Adaptation Motive in the real world. Most people select a physician, dentist or attorney on the basis of someone else's recommendation because very few of use have the proper credential to decide who is or is not a good doctor or surgeon.”

“[C]ampaigns launched by adult survivors of child welfare systems of the past [...] can produce a second level of hurt as the now elderly carers are forced to re-examine their carefully constructed pasts in the face of angry accusations from the media, often retaliating with counter-accusations [...] that campaigners are victims of a ‘me-tooism’ seeking to piggy-back on the success of others whose sense of hurt they do not dispute.”

“On the other hand, the growth of national consciousness, the awareness of a specific cultural and aesthetic past, a new sensitivity to the individual’s own visual experience, and, in many years, an active contemporary artistic creativity have created a world that can no longer be satisfied with aesthetic or critical me-too-ism.”

“[H]uman beings demonstrate the herd instinct: or "me-tooism." Whereas he who cuts a fresh path does so in loneliness, perhaps even in the face of ridicule, success, or the appearance of success, brings everyone rushing in.”

“The Miao myth of origins ostensibly tries to prove that they had books just like the Chinese, that they had a writing system just like the Chinese, and that they come from north of the Yangzi River, an area traditionally claimed by the Chinese as the birthplace of their civilization. [...] Far more than just simple “metooism,” the Miao legend is at heart a lament, a lament for the disappearance of their writing and their culture at the hands of the advancing Chinese civilization.”

“[T]he critical charge of me-tooisms was also, I believe, misplaced. To some extent, I can accept the commercial charge of me-tooism. [...] [T]he older drug has accumulated more reports of side effects on its data sheet and the newer me-too drug can be pedaled^([sic – meaning peddled]) by marketing manipulators as "just as good but safer."”

“Distracting, diverting, trivialising, story telling, one-upping and ‘me-too’-isms make light of children’s problems and imply that if something is too hard, we should avoid it.”

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