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Omnicause

Omnicause

Updated Sep 25, 2024 at 11:05AM EDT by Philipp.

Added Sep 25, 2024 at 10:23AM EDT by Philipp.

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Omnicause is a slang term used to describe the convergence of several causes into one, and has been used in both positive and negative contexts, particularly when simultaneous fight for multiple misaligned causes hinders achieving progress in any of them. Spawned in October 2023 and related to the concept of intersectionality, the term has saw gradual spread on social media through 2024.

Origin

The earliest found use of the term "Omnicause" is an October 24th, 2023, X[1] / Twitter post by user @fakegreekgrill. The user commented on a lesbian club in Columbia writing "zionists aren't invited" on their movie night poster, writing, "It seems like where "intersectionality" went wrong was assuming that anyone with any claim to oppression must be part of one omnicause + global warming for some reason." The post (shown below) received over 10 reposts and 90 likes in one year.


Mom for Gliberty @fakegreekgrill It seems like where "intersectionality" went wrong was assuming that anyone with any claim to oppression must be part of one omnicause + global warming for some reason. Blake Flayton @blakeflayton - Oct 24, 2023 The lesbian club at Columbia, "LionLez," says "Zionists aren't invited" to their upcoming movie night, says "only white Jews are allowed to live in Israel" and says "white Jewish people are today and always have been the oppressors of all brown people." 2023 LIONLEZ PRESENTS ad between the lines of this poem? white Jewish people are today and always have been the oppress RAFIKI (2018) ole, just like every other white subgroup. white supremacy is so extreme that even AFTER they (white x SHAKEDOWN (2018) olently went after ALL brown people, they then looked around the room of just thempastyselves and most different looking here...? And it was the Jewish people! So that means Olivia, and I'm gonna tou I say this, WHEN I SAY THE HOLOCAUST WASN'T SPECIAL, I MEAN THAT. You got a lot of nerve person's inbox talkin bout "I'm afraid of brown people as a white Jew" information available to us, the only people who support "Israel" are very stupid and/or very racist. St interpretation of primary sources and look at the primary sources themselves. C'mon aren't we scho alestine on Instagram. Look at social media from people actually on the ground (that includes 0 Zion ping bombs). No, white Jewish people in Palestine are not dying on a large scale. No, none of the 're referring to are from "Israel," colonizer settlers don't just suddenly "come from" where they forced one cares how much a white girl cries anti-semitism when we say stop the genocide. BLACK LESBIAN FILMS 5-9 PM 501 SCHERMERHORN run by people of color. For it to be a safe space for people of color, Zionists (all of whom are white supremacists) are not invited. Ever. Germany, the government who recently orchestrated the Holocaust and is still anti-semitic to this day, supports Israel. Have you thought about why? Could it be that if Jewish people have a new enemy (the Palestinians), Germans might no longer be held responsible for reparations to Jewish people? Could it be that Israel supports both their white supremacist agenda of ethnic cleansing of brown people AND their anti-semitic agenda of making Jewish people look bad? Britain and the US have admitted to manipulating white Jews' trauma to get a foothold in the Middle East for political and economic gain. Hamas only exists because of Zionists' cruelty. Zionists have taken Palestinian hostages for 75 years, so Hamas took hostages for a prisoner exchange to get their family members back. They fought back and killed a handful of people after a 75-year ongoing genocide that's killed hundreds of thousands. This is not a war. "Israel" is the sole aggressor. Israelites are the Nazis. Every religion has religious extremists. Christian religious extremists are called fundamentalists. Muslim religious extremists are called al qaeda. Jewish religious extremists are called Israelis and Zionists. You and your white supremacy are also not invited. STOP THE GENOCIDE! FREE PALESTINE! F--- ISRAEL. 12:23 PM - Oct 24, 2023 28K Views

On November 20th, 2023, the term appeared in an UnHerd[2] article about Just Stop Oil activists staging a sit-in protest in support of a ceasefire in Gaza (snippet shown below). On January 11th, 2024, a column titled "All hail the Omnicause" in MSU Reporter[3] reviewed the term and ascribed the authorship of the neologism to @fakegreekgirl.


What does Palestine have to do with climate change? BY MARY HARRINGTON STOP FREE PALESTINE STEALING IS A PALESTINIAN WATER CLIMATE JUSTICE ISSUE The Omnicause action. Credy C News room NOVEMBER 20, 2023 - 11:50AM The Omnicause has claimed another single-issue group. The climate change campaigners Just Stop Oil organised a sit-in protest at Waterloo Station on Saturday - not in itself surprising, except that it wasn't about oil at all, but instead a ceasefire in Gaza.

Spread

Starting in early 2024, the term saw gradual spread online as it was used in contexts of people, particularly liberals, supporting several causes at once, with some posts using the term going viral. Notably, on March 11th, 2024, X[4] user @PhillyGov made a post about the YIMBY movement, setting it apart from "being an ideological litmus test for the progressive Omnicause." The post (shown below) received over 290 reposts and 3,900 likes in six months.


Philadelphia is a nice city and you shou @PhillyGov Zoomers don't understand that the reason that ... YIMBYISM is successful is because it's much more like a pre-2016 social movement focused on definitive and concrete gains as opposed to being an ideological litmus test for the progressive Omnicause. rust belt city enjoyer @rustbeltenjoyer . Mar 11 There's absolutely no room in the urbanist movement for conservatives. The fight for equitable, climate conscious cities, worker's rights, reproductive rights, racial justice, wealth equality, ... Show more • 11:20 PM Mar 11, 2024 422.9K Views

The term has appeared multiple times in discussions related to climate activist Greta Thunberg and her activism in support of Palestine in the 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas conflict. For example, on May 11th, 2024, X[5] user @moveincircles wrote, "Fascinated by how seamlessly the Omnicause has ingested Greta Thunberg", with the post gaining over 200 reposts and 1,900 likes in four months (shown below).


Mary Harrington ✪ @moveincircles Fascinated by how seamlessly the Omnicause has ingested Greta Thunberg 6:15 AM ⚫ May 11, 2024 · 150.8K Views

The spread of the neologism online was followed by its use in memes. For example, on September 23rd, 2024, X[6] user @ProgDirectorate made an I Fucking Love X meme that garnered over 50 reposts and 750 likes in two days (shown below).


I F------ LOVE THE OMNICAUSE IUPHOLD TOTAL UNCONDITIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH ALL STRUGGLES

Various Examples


ingrid @retrophysical I don't think that people should self-immolate for the omnicause L REPORT TOWN . 10:32 PM ⚫ Feb 27, 2024 155 Views NORMAN ROCKWELL ... Anders Sandberg @anderssandberg I like the concept of "omnicause". It explains a lot. Tetra @TetraspaceWest ⚫ May 3 Prioritisation has insurmountably bad PR but is unavoidable because days are finitely long. Progressivism solves this through omnicause – you're not ignoring Palestine to solve climate problems, because all causes are rhetorically the ... • • 6:17 AM ⚫ May 4, 2024 2,678 Views cyg @halfheldsky Ppl that decry the "omnicause" are so hilarious because yes a coherent political and moral philosophy usually makes you have actionable opinions on most political happenings, it's called having a coherent world view dog
Shadow Of The Nerdtre @agraybee Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr is my omnicause. All other topics must lead back to this in some way. • 10:41 PM Sep 19, 2024 · 12.6K Views cannot move out of b @witchof0x20 a lot of people get alienated by "the omnicause" because they encounter irritating people that see it as a short- term goal rather than a long-term one 9:26 PM - Sep 22, 2024 226 Views

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External References

[1] X – @fakegreekgrill

[2] UnHerd – What does Palestine have to do with climate change?

[3] MSU Reporter – All hail the Omnicause!

[4] X – @PhillyGov

[5] X – @moveincircles

[6] X – @ProgDirectorate

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All of this is tiring and annoying IMO, way I see it , Its all grandstanding, Its all political alliances of convinience with no actual substance to try and actually do anything ,where many will turn on each other the moment they gain a significant victory or a major contradiction is brough up.

I get trying to get LGBTQ people accepted worldwide, I ALSO to an extent get trying to size down and quell islamophobia … that being said… I dont think both causes will do well in the same space, let alone an alliance unless you happen to have an anti-islamophobia group with no actual muslims.

and personally speaking,I dont like it when you do it like this, trying to meld all this issues together into the same fucking pot as if your "cause" has a say in everything and a finger in every pie reeks to me of "everything is political" wich I despise because as far as I am aware we are 1 or 2 steps away from "Everything within the state, nothing outside the state" if you are not already there.

TLDR: Individually I like a lot of these causes, I stop liking this once you start doing the whole "throwing them into the same pot" sthick because I think that will wind up with the lot of you saying a lot and doing nothing … unless you take a very totalitarian aproach.

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This is one of those neologisms that will likely take on a life of its own, kind of like "woke" or "social justice warriors."
Step 1. There is no omnicause, and it's something conservatives made up about liberals.
Step 2. There is an omnicause and it's a good thing.
Step 3. It all backfires.
Step 4. Conservatives are the real omnicause.

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