omnicause

English

Etymology

omni- +‎ cause. Coined in 2023 during the Israel–Hamas war protests. Compare omnishambles.

Noun

omnicause (uncountable)

1. (politics, derogatory) The intersectional relatedness of major political causes and issues, especially in the context of such relatedness being false or exaggerated.
   • 2023 November 20, Mary Harrington, UnHerd‎^[1], archived from the original on 2024-05-28:

     Palestinians have attained this status: as a group, they tick a great many intersectional victim boxes, while Omnicause adherents have long viewed Israel’s behaviour as a metonym for American oppression, both internally (racism, slavery) and externally (global imperial hegemony).

   • 2024 May 17, Janice Turner, “Don’t scorn students for believing in a cause”, in The Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 2024-06-06:

     But it was ever thus. Radical activism has always been a multipack deal. Our omnicause encompassed apartheid, Nicaragua, nuclear disarmament, the miners’ strike and that Thatcher-era hardy perennial, The Cuts.

   • 2024 May 20, Mike Gonzalez, “Who Benefits From the Destabilization of the U.S.?”, in The Heritage Foundation‎^[3]:

     The impact the critical race theory discipline has had on how the omnicause is articulated cannot be overstressed.

See also

• bleeding-heart
• cause célèbre
• woke