Meaning of wrongthink | Babel Free

Definitions

Beliefs or opinions that run contrary to the prevailing or mainstream orthodoxy.

uncountable, usually

Examples

“In other words I spent yesterday in bed with a headache not merely because of my bad attitudes, unpleasant tempers and wrongthink, but because both my grandmothers had migraine, my father has migraine and my mother has migraine.”

“The third, and most grievous of all the wrongthinks, is suggesting that men and women are, in general, physiologically and psychologically different from each other, and thus they tend to excel at different things.”

“Fang, fearing for his job, had to issue a Maoist-style apology for reporting wrongthink.”

“If "radicalization" once meant the process by which someone embraces a violent ideology that commands them to wage war on civilians, it has now become a synonym for wrong-think. Once a description of the moment before physical violence, inextricably linked to real world, physical harm, radicalization now refers to anything on the wrong side of the reigning orthodoxy, something that does harm to nothing more than the sensibilities of those in power.”

“Neighbors turning in neighbors for wrong-think cultivates the habits of an unfree society.”

“Heather Heying’s observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is — it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think.”

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