panderers

They enable exploitation

Panderers are people who cater to others' baser desires or weaknesses, especially for profit or advantage.

The word originally meant procurers—those who arrange sexual encounters for others—but now more often describes anyone who exploits low tastes: panderers to public prejudice, panderers selling outrage as entertainment.

A panderer tells people what they want to hear rather than what they need to know.

exploitation

procurer

One who obtains items

manipulator · coercer · profiteer · flesh-peddler · corrupter · predator · opportunist · madam · hustler · operator

facilitation

broker

Transaction intermediary for hire

arranger · agent · middleman · fixer · connector · facilitator · liaison · handler · supplier · matchmaker

gratification

flatterer

One dispensing insincere praise

appeaser · cajoler · tempter · seducer · corrupter · enabler · yes-man · toady · fawner · bootlicker

Categories
Opposites
moral stance

panderersreformers

Advocates for institutional improvement

moralists · uplifters · ascetics · disciplinarians · mentors

transaction role in prostitution

panderersabolitionists

Those opposing human bondage

clients · johns · vice squad · rescuers · prostitutes

relationship to audience desires

pandererstruth-tellers

Those who state facts

challengers · iconoclasts · prophets · provocateurs · educators

Family

pandered, panderer

Familiarity
Top 500,000
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