shibboleth

Of course conservatives complained about all this constantly and at great length, and sporadically tried to organize boycotts or other counterattacks against such shibboleths as “affirmative action,” “political correctness,” “multiculturalism” and “cultural Marxism.”

California Latinos have helped to torpedo liberal shibboleths at the ballot box more often than Democrats will ever admit.

This is the shibboleth that no fault must ever attach to the electorate.

Some institutions under Trumpian fire agree to end programs promoting workforce, student and faculty diversity, equality and inclusion, or “DEI,” to cite the common conservative shibboleth, or to eliminate other forms of outreach.

These are ideological shibboleths and by no means “wasteful,” since DOT projects have manifest effects on the welfare of residents in the communities where they’re built or planned and on climate change itself.