wrongthink

Beliefs or opinions that run contrary to the prevailing or mainstream orthodoxy.

Noun

Beliefs or opinions that run contrary to the prevailing or mainstream orthodoxy.
- In other words I spent yesterday in bed with a headache not merely because of my bad attitudes, unpleasant tempers and wrongthink, but because both my grandmothers had migraine, my father has migraine and my mother has...
- The third, and most grievous of all the wrongthinks, is suggesting that men and women are, in general, physiologically and psychologically different from each other, and thus they tend to excel at different things. -...
- Fang, fearing for his job, had to issue a Maoist-style apology for reporting wrongthink. - 2020 November 6, David Bernstein, “The Revolution is Eating its Own”, in The Volokh Conspiracy:
Synonyms: badthink crimethink wrongthought

Compound of wrong + think, probably modelled on earlier crimethink from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

To engage in wrongthink.
- Post a conservative story on Facebook or search for it on Google and out pops Snopes, a partisan site, to warn you of wrongthinking. - 2017 June 30, Henry Wolff, “The Freedom Center Beats the Southern Poverty Law...
- Hasbro has sent a clear signal to men, to Trump supporters, and to anyone who wrongthinks: you are not welcome, and we will purge you. - 2017 December 21, Ganker, “A joke, a media storm, and a destroyed life... Is...
- Wrongthinking friends are kicked off of PayPal and Etsy and Twitter, of course, with increasing frequency. - 2022 June 13, Abigail Shrier, “Welcome to the Party, Pal”, in The Truth Fairy: