Judgemental Political Words

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The point of this thread is to try to think of terms and phrases that are used in politics such that being opposed to the policy the term advocates defines someone as bad. The classic example is the abortion issue since it has phrases for both side. If you're against pro-life, then you are against life. If you are against pro-choice then you are against choice. By virtually any definition it is wrong to be against life or against choice. So the point is to list some phrases that define the opponents as bad, rather than debate those issues themselves.

I'll list some I can think of off the top of my head. First is the term/phrase and second is what you are if you're against what that term/phrase promotes.

pro-choice -- you are against choice
pro-life -- you are against life
fiscal responsibility -- you are against responsibility
social justice -- you are against justice
economic justice -- you are against justice
family values -- you are against families
fair trade -- you are against fairness
fair tax -- you are against fairness

Feel free to add to the list.
 
"No child left behind" -- You want to leave children behind.
heck include "child" and this could go on for pages.
 
Thread would have been easier if you asked what ISN'T a judgmental phrase.
 
Yes, I know there is a lot of loaded, slanted language used in politics, but I was trying to narrow it down to terms/phrases that are completely unambiguously judgmental. I think there's a continuum from the unambiguously judgmental (which is what I'm after) to the slanted but not unambiguously judgmental. I can't think of any in the latter category right now, but they'd be things where the other person could say "Yeah, but there's some truth to the phrase because of X, Y, Z" and it's a ridiculous, semantic argument that makes you roll your eyes but based on a technicality they can justify it as not being completely indefensible.
 
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