‘Folk etymology’ comes close but probably isn’t very useful in a sociopolitical context.
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I like paretymology. It's linked from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_etymology ….
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Etymological hate hoaxes
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From the listener's perspective, it's a Freudian slip, not a false etymology. The usage of such terms in an inappropriate context is correctly revealing a thought cluster, not incorrectly defining a single term.
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There is the Scunthorpe problem in automated spam/profanity filtering: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem …
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