Did you possibly mean whatever?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. politics Adherence to the Two Whatevers: "We will resolutely uphold whatever policy decisions Chairman Mao made, and unswervingly follow whatever instructions Chairman Mao gave."
- n. rare Belief in whatever; apathy, nothingarianism.
Etymologies
- whatever + -ism (Wiktionary)
Examples
“You can call it marxism, socialism, or "whateverism" you want to call it, but it is the right thing for America.”
Movement 'coming from the soil of America,' conservative says
“Maybe this is not a particularly original thought, but for people who worry about racism or sexism or whateverism in film and television, it might be worth focusing on the way the formal constraints of the genre or medium, as opposed to the conscious or unconscious cultural biases of the writers, actually steers the story toward making use of these.”
“And the English language has not fallen into whateverism as a result.”
“Not only did Hillary unfairly attack Barack, she attacked HERSELF by bringing up sexism, racism, and whateverism to her campaign.”
Obama, Clinton supporters both say Clinton attacking unfairly
“I am most curious about the hypocrisy of using lookism/bodyism/whateverism to make a left wing point.”
“Hua Guofeng: Mao's hapless chosen successor did have a philosophy: whateverism (as in, "" Whatever Mao said should be defended '').”
“Trolls say that the left supports communism/nazism/whateverism when the trolls own outlook on life shows that THEY and their leaders ACTIVELY cause facism and has supported facism (including nazis) in the past†¦ up is down black is white†¦”
Think Progress » Snow: There Is Too Much Focus on Kidnapped U.S. Soldiers
“Trolls say that the left supports communism/nazism/whateverism when the trolls own outlook on life shows that THEY and their leaders ACTIVELY cause facism and has supported facism (including nazis) in the past … up is down black is white …”
Think Progress » Snow: There Is Too Much Focus on Kidnapped U.S. Soldiers
“Naomi Baron, a linguist at American University in Washington, D.C., credited with the term "linguistic whateverism," warned that the more we write online, "the worse writers we become." new study from California's Stanford University has produced some reassuring news: Young people may not be writing so badly after all, and, in fact, their prose is evolving in some promising new ways.”
“Whether you call it a new brand of capitalism, socialism or whateverism global economics is in for a change.”
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
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Made up isms
Or isms that just shouldn't exist.
whateverism, nothingarianism, ism, racialism, neojacobinism, naderism, spelunketarianism
Tweets
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sionnach I think this might be the same thing as oblomovism. But I don't care enough to look it up. Sep 28, 2011
leaden
Finally, a philosophy for slackers. Presumably our anthem is “Battle of Who Could Care Less”. Or something. (Everyone’s already familiar with the salute.) Sep 28, 2011
hernesheir *favorited* Sep 28, 2011