"You cannot use that terminology interchangeably," says Fox, even though these terms seem to have become conflated in people's minds.
Opposition to gay marriage has become conflated with all sorts of other anti-government grievances coming from the right and the atmosphere in the country is particularly volatile, the BBC's Hugh Schofield says.
As a result, the content of what, after all, is an "-ism" – that is to say, a political belief system – has become conflated with the supposed psychological states of its supporters, namely feelings of resentment and relative deprivation.
But, there has been a pivotal bright side to all this: with every plant closing, non-union service job replacing it, or market plunge, events that formerly seemed to be the problems of the individual, have now become conflated with the events of society as a whole.
How did we get to a point where providing our children with a healthy sense of independence has become conflated with neglect?
The Christian faith and the call to organize our common life in such a way that we imagine God to all creation can never be co-opted by a political party, nor can it become conflated with any other ideology be it political, economic, or otherwise.
In the case of "lifestyle" illnesses, such as Type 2 diabetes, these two notions of control can become conflated in an implicit or feared moral (self- assessment of the patient'self- assessment, ability tofself-conthel and, hence, to be a good patient and citizen) through the measurement of glucose levels.
The debate over asylum has thus become conflated with one over immigration in general.
In Phantom Menace, the concepts of "acting" and "FX" have effectively become conflated, as a number of the supporting cast are non-human.
By 2013, the language of asylum had become conflated with that of war: the Australian government was "engaged in a war" with those organising boat journeys.
