"Current year" terms that piss you off

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"Life Hack." What a dumb fucking term the normies created for either something you make that's ridiculously over-the-top for what would otherwise be a simple/obvious solution; or some gimmicky shit like a "weight loss life hack" for something you refuse to work on yourself and get to the root of the problem.
 
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Lunar Eclipse Paradox said:
The fact that some streaming services warn people that the said movie was politically incorrect because our current generations can't handle real life.
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Not only that, but production companies have censored stuff now deemed politically incorrect in an attempt to stay woke and pander to current politics. As an example, the video of Taco's version of Puttin' On the Ritz has seemingly been digitally edited to censor out the blackfaced accompanying dancers. Never mind that said dancers did nothing racially insensitive while wearing the blackface. Worse, the edits don't seem to mesh well with the rest of the video and the revised version looks worse than the original which is now difficult to find (if not outright impossible).

It's one thing to warn people, "Hey, this was made in a different time period, so what is/isn't culturally acceptable was different," but it's another to censor it or alter it to the point of oblivion because nobody knows how to handle adversity or topics they might not agree with.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
They can take it even further and come up with stuff like "community defense" - which seems to be doublespeak for a mob-like alternative to police handling an issue - and undoubtedly other terms involving "community" that weren't things before the 2010s.
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And this is why a profusion of these turds basically inevitably cause something like Nazis to arise just to deal with them.
Littlest Pooner said:
I'm noticing a shit load more "Y'all"ing online than usual recently.
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Anyone who is neither Southern nor black and says "y'all" needs to be put up against a wall and shot.
 
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The Last Stand said:
All this talk about "book bans" in schools sounds like mass hysteria to me. I don't understand the issue at hand. Correct me if I'm wrong, it merely sounds like the school chooses not to supply the books in their libraries.
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Of course Schools sometimes bans certain books from their property and they have every right to do that. Each property has it's own set of rules and that's the beauty of owning property. So those bitching about "book bans" in schools are contradicting their own narrative of private property. Teachers are usually never parents of their own classroom.

Kiwi Lime Pie said:
Not only that, but production companies have censored stuff now deemed politically incorrect in an attempt to stay woke and pander to current politics. As an example, the video of Taco's version of Puttin' On the Ritz has seemingly been digitally edited to censor out the blackfaced accompanying dancers. Never mind that said dancers did nothing racially insensitive while wearing the blackface. Worse, the edits don't seem to mesh well with the rest of the video and the revised version looks worse than the original which is now difficult to find (if not outright impossible).

It's one thing to warn people, "Hey, this was made in a different time period, so what is/isn't culturally acceptable was different," but it's another to censor it or alter it to the point of oblivion because nobody knows how to handle adversity or topics they might not agree with.
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I also do remember those times in my life trying to find the music video "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits. My father has been telling me it was taken off YouTube because of the usage of the word "Faggot" which many don't seem to realize in the context of lyrics is said by a gay guy who is jealous of another gay guy.
 
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Lunar Eclipse Paradox said:
So those bitching about "book bans" in schools are contradicting their own narrative of private property. Teachers are usually never parents of their own classroom.
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My best guess is that some people feel that the public part of the phrase "public school" means that there should be zero censorship which to them includes the removal of any book from the school library. It's a ridiculous stance, mind you, but it seems like the one being taken when activists insist that there's nothing wrong with kindergartners learning about girldicks and the Heinz 57 variety of genders in response to the reasonable pushback that comes with such proposals.

As for libraries, school libraries should be able to determine what is and isn't age-appropriate so long as the criteria aren't arbitrary. Similarly, public libraries insisting certain materials be checked out by age 18+ patrons only isn't censorship as it puts the accountability on the patron once the material is checked out and taken home.

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I also do remember those times in my life trying to find the music video "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits. My father has been telling me it was taken off YouTube because of the usage of the word "Faggot" which many don't seem to realize in the context of lyrics is said by a gay guy who is jealous of another gay guy.
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Happened to stumble across the audio-only video of the full song here.

Kind of a shame that stuff like this is memory holed. As you said, the lyrics are describe a gay guy jealous of a gay celeb who gets paid for what's perceived to be little to no effort while having groupies dripping off of him like it's no big deal. It's not like the slur is being used gratuitously for no reason. 🤷‍♂️

Thread tax: "insecurity" when used as a euphemism, usually with the phrases "food insecurity" or "rent/housing insecurity." I get that referring to people being too poor to afford food or a rent/mortgage often comes with an undeserved negative connotation. However, use of these cutesy phrases sounds pretentious and does nothing to address the situations they describe.
 
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The word "project" when talking about a musical release pisses me off. Instead of the new "album" or "record", we're getting a new "project" from an artist. This makes it sound like the album gets fucking updates and should have a changelog. The only musical artist I know that's ever gone back, modified an album, and rereleased the album like this was Kanye, so I guess that could be considered a true "project".
I'm pretty sure Anthony Fantano started this shit a few years ago. I feel like it's used exclusively by people who watch him so it inherently feels PC, I guess because "album" has a more commercial connotation behind it and capitalism bad? I don't know.
 
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I am starting to hate the term "orientalism", because it became one of those terms whose definition was ran down by Twittertards.
I see this term thrown around by terminally online lefties crawling out of the woodwork, as soon as someone does something innocuous as saying how they some eastern culture is cool.
 
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