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Apologist
An apologist is someone who argues in defense of a controversial truth, usually but not always associated with Christianity.

During slave times in the United States, an apologist would defend that slavery was all right, by citing portions of the bible where God's favorites owned slaves.
By Stefanie
Apologist
One who practises the art of making excuses for things they know to be wrong. From the word "appal", "appalling".

Christian apologists say that slavery is morally justifiable because the Bible says slavery is acceptable.
By Lurette
Apologist
One of those annoying douches who apologizes before saying something horribly offensive, ignorant, or demeaning to you. The apology is supposed to make it nicer somehow--or they're attempting to be PC (which is annoying as well).

These type of people also lose credibility on their beliefs since it conveys less confidence about their beliefs.

I'm sorry, but I think you're going to Hell for not being baptized.

I'd like to apologize in advance but I think you're a huge, worthless douchebag.

Quit being an apologist.
By Jilly
Apologistics
A portmanteau of 'apology' and 'logistics'. In essence, apologistics occurs when operations (esp. military operations) are so badly run that they require a senior official to say 'sorry'.

'Do you think anyone will say sorry for phony wars?'
'You mean say sorry for their refusal to work out an exit strategy prior to bumbling in like the Three Stooges?'
'Yes.'
'Not bloody likely, guvnah. Those guys aren't into apologistics.'
By Frederique
Celebrity Apologist
Someone who holds celebrities in such a high regard that they believe they can do no wrong. When the celebrity does do wrong, the apologist defends the celebrity.

"Can you believe that #famous_person said that!?"
"He's just exercising his freedom of speech, and he probably just said it to get attention."
"What are you some kind of celebrity apologist?"
By Courtney
Cop Apologist
A cop apologist is a person, usually a Statist, who, no matter what a cop does, no matter how bad and unreasonable their actions are. A cop apologist will defend their actions no matter what. They, like cops themselves, think that the police are royalty and above the law and they think that cops should be able to do whatever they want no matter what the situation is. They also think that people should just comply to cops or whatever even though people are not obligated to. They also think it's bad for people to stand up for their rights to a cop even though they have every right to do so.

Regular person: That cop just shot a kid while the kid was holding a Wii remote.

Cop apologist: That Wii remote could have been a gun, I think the cop's action is justified.

Regular person: Really? If you can't tell the difference between a Wii remote and a gun, you must be mentally retarded or a special kind of stupid and shouldn't even be a cop.
By Phaidra
Corporate Apologist
Some clown who basically worships coporate America and Money as a god. They could be treated like slaves, and are totally blind to the crimes of the Corporate Genies. Whats even worse, if anyone tries to fight corporate corruption, they dont hesitate to go on this whole blabbery "Thats life", and justify the abuses by blaming the activists as being lazy, and unwilling to work. All they can see is the corporations side of the spectrum. They would call someone lazy for being angry for not getting any time off after working 10 years straight

Some corporate apologist called me a lazy slug after I had exposed the way the boss expects us to work 14 hour days just so he can have a fatter paycheck at the expense of the workers.
By Caryn
Rape Apologist
1. (Noun) Someone who defends rapists with full knowledge of the crimes they have committed

2. (Noun) someone who claims a victim of rape is the one at fault for an assault, most commonly using bullshit excuses such as "they shouldn't have been dressed so revealingly"

"He defended that guy!? Geez he must be a rape apologist"
By Rivalee
Torture Apologist
After looking online in several places, there was no clear definition so I read a lot of articles and then just broke down the words by definition. Hopefully, sparing other people the same reading.

Torture Apologists are those who offer an argument in defense of torture, specifically when working on behalf of the government to capture or kill those deemed (normally) foreign terrorists or (normally) foreign threats.

This is a scenario*and not a fact I am presenting as an example: Jane Doe, a torture apologist, believes that the information that led them to Osama Bin Laden was gathered by water boarding his associates. Jane believes that this is acceptable because tracking Bin Laden’s location should be done by any means necessary, this includes any and all forms of torture in exchange for this information. Jane’s argument is that torture is necessary to prevent loss of life for others. She is a torture apologist because of this.
By Rikki
Muslim Apologist
1. A person who white washes Islamic violence by throwing out a distraction such as another religion when the subject is Islam.

2. A person who will call you racist or a bigot for talking about statistics involving Muslims.

Muslim Apologist:
Example 1: Yes Bob I agree ISIS,Taliban,Boko haram, Al Shabab, Al Qaeda, Al-Nursa are a problems but lets talk about KKK, they are Christians and they killed people at one point in time..

Example 2: You racist bigot how dare you talk Muslims! I may agree Islam is bad and seen Islamic terrorism chart being 90% of the worlds average but lets talk about the abortion bombing a few decades ago instead.
By Tabbatha