omnicause
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From omni- + cause. Coined in 2023 during the Israel–Hamas war protests. Compare omnishambles.
Noun
[edit]the omnicause
- (politics, derogatory) The intersectional relatedness of major political causes and issues, especially in the context of such relatedness being false or exaggerated.
- 2023 November 20, Mary Harrington, UnHerd[1], archived from the original on 2024-05-28:
- Palestinians have attained this status: as a group, they tick a great many intersectional victim boxes, while Omnicause adherents have long viewed Israel’s behaviour as a metonym for American oppression, both internally (racism, slavery) and externally (global imperial hegemony).
- 2024 May 17, Janice Turner, “Don’t scorn students for believing in a cause”, in The Times[2], archived from the original on 2024-06-06:
- But it was ever thus. Radical activism has always been a multipack deal. Our omnicause encompassed apartheid, Nicaragua, nuclear disarmament, the miners’ strike and that Thatcher-era hardy perennial, The Cuts.
- 2024 May 20, Mike Gonzalez, “Who Benefits From the Destabilization of the U.S.?”, in The Heritage Foundation[3]:
- The impact the critical race theory discipline has had on how the omnicause is articulated cannot be overstressed.