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A '''provocateur''' is someone who thrives on provoking conflict for the sake of conflict alone. The '''provocateur''' is constantly picking fights, mental or physical, with no apparent consistency in argument. Often a '''provocateur''' simply likes the attention that conflict brings, and enjoys the exaggerated influence that might follow from the conflict. If effective, others in the group spend more time and energy trying to appease the '''provocateur''' than advancing more productive goals.
An '''agent provocateur''' is a particularly sophisticated attempt to infiltrate a group and pretend sympathy with it, only then to discredit the group with indefensible statements or actions.
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An '''agent provocateur''' is a particularly sophisticated attempt to infiltrate a group and pretend sympathy with it, only then to discredit the group with indefensible statements or actions.
[[category:politics]]
[[category:psychology]]
[[category:wiki]]