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It sounds extremely hypocritical because I write a Substack devoted to online shopping, but I find scrolling for hours on end a soulless experience.

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The piece argues that Republicans are being hypocritical given their attacks on “cancel culture” and “wokeism”—they cannot simultaneously claim that deplatforming is oppressive while refusing to condemn actual Nazis.

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“It’s hypocritical of Democratic leaders who refuse to endorse him. It definitely will affect my vote,” she said.

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“It is hypocritical to say that it is abhorrent to tactically shift voters based on race, but not to do so based on party affiliation,” he said.

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The deepest contradictions in American history—where sincerely heroic efforts fail while hypocritical compromises are necessary for the least-bad outcomes to play out—are the ironic lessons of the nation’s story.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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