I am searching for two different words. Here are the meanings:
When a person accuses YOU of doing whatever it is that THEY are really doing themselves
When a person diverts attention away from the real issue by shifting the focus on something else
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Shelley
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ONe is hypocrite and the other is deflect
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1. Hypocrite 2. Round-talker
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Projection Strawman
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Projection Distraction or misdirection
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Hypocrisy is the first. The second is "creating a distraction or strawman", I'm not aware of any single word which captures it.
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Hypocrisy and red-herring. Here is a wiki article on red-herring: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring_(idiom)
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Defense mechanisms... Take your pick: Denial: claiming/believing that what is true to be actually false. Displacement: redirecting emotions to a substitute target. Intellectualization: taking an objective viewpoint. Projection: attributing uncomfortable feelings to others. Rationalization: creating false but credible justifications. Reaction Formation: overacting in the opposite way to the fear. Regression: going back to acting as a child. Repression: pushing uncomfortable thoughts into the subconscious. Sublimation: redirecting 'wrong' urges into socially acceptabl
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Transference, or hypocricay . Building a straw man, or avoidance.
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Projecting and Scatter-f*cking.
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I'd go with projection, for the first one. For the second, some people use equivocation - they shift the meaning of a word and pretend that what they want to talk about is what you said, only they define it differently so that things work in their favor.
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Projection and obfuscation.
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Displacement, denial tell themto seek help for they are insane.
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the psychological term for the first is "projecting" in rhetoric (the art of building an argument) the second could be called a red herring, or a strawman, depending on how it's used (a red herring is a fact that isn't actually pertinent to the argument; a strawman is setting up a target in order to use one's response to that problem as avoidance of the real problem; similar)
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Displacement,Denial both are serious mental illineses.
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The second one is a "red herring" or misdirection. I don't know the first one because it makes me so mad I can't think. :)
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projection and prevaricating
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