paternalism
Example Sentences
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He calls this insistence “choice-requiring paternalism,” a phrase meant to throw the charge of paternalism back at the libertarians.
Aid became a bastion of paternalism or, as some came to see it, neocolonialism.
I would say it's paternalism, the idea that the leaders know what's best for everyone else and therefore can act for everyone else, and the idea of being a chosen people, of exceptionalism.
From Salon
Black American liberals rejected the elements of feudalism they recognized in racial prejudice, paternalism and patriarchy.
From Salon
The arguments over this question typically fall along a spectrum, with paternalism on one end and self-determination on the other.
From Seattle Times
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