play the polite

(verb) When someone "plays the polite", that means they act AS IF they were polite, but in fact they might not be that polite.

Don't tryta play da polite.

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playing politics

when a politician or political party disagrees with a particular stance merely for the sake of disagreeing with the other side

"I just disproved those feminists on the wage gap and they yelled at me and told me I was bigoted."

"Ahh, they're just playing politics."