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My first thought was a political party/movement that works against the best interests of most of its constituents (eg: false consciousness). The party needs more believers at its base to hold back/dam the natural flow of their interests.
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I can't find the tweet I'm trying to respond to, connecting racism, sexism, tallism, but this may interest you. Some Google tool ?ngrams? showed me that, consistent with my memory, "prejudice" was replaced by "racism" in the early 60s w.r.t. civil rights.
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