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1. To avoid taking personal responsibility by claiming that your errors were inevitable. 2. To flip the script on others, recasting yourself in the heroic role against the system which caused you to commit harm. Baldwinizing does not require a legitimate change of opinion (like Morton Downey Jr. on smoking) or even a pretense of changing one's opinion (see Elridge Cleaver).
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