Bad-jacketing
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
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- 1 present participle and gerund of bad-jacket form-of, gerund, participle, present
"Against the Panthers, the bureau used eavesdropping, harassment, the dissemination of misinformation, infiltration, "bad-jacketing," and, in a worst-case scenario, outright murder. [...] Given the black protest movement's propensity to essentialize Black Power and Black Power proponents into rigid racial, ideological, and increasingly gendered constructs, the FBI's practice of bad-jacketing was particularly effective"
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More examples"Against the Panthers, the bureau used eavesdropping, harassment, the dissemination of misinformation, infiltration, "bad-jacketing," and, in a worst-case scenario, outright murder. [...] Given the black protest movement's propensity to essentialize Black Power and Black Power proponents into rigid racial, ideological, and increasingly gendered constructs, the FBI's practice of bad-jacketing was particularly effective"
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