self-stultifying en · ADJ
Etymology
From self- + stultifying.
Meanings
-
(not-comparable, of a statement or idea) That is inherently disproven, undermined or hindered by the very act of expressing it, without being a logical contradiction.
It's self-stultifying for a politician to say that all politicians are liars.
-
(not-comparable) Self-denigrating.
[…] we have got to renounce a program that always involves humiliating self-stultifying scrambling to crawl somewhere where we are not wanted; where we crouch panting like a whipped dog.
1972, Norman Coombs, The Black Experience in America: