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False metonymy: when a thing stands in for a larger thing that isn’t actually a thing What examples come to mind based on this abstract definition?
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Lot of examples in racism and anti-semitism. For example, people refer to the influence of George Soros or The Rothschilds as a way of avoiding overtly referring to Jews as a group which would make their prejudice obvious.
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