"Current year" terms that piss you off

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Local Degenerate said:
Gotta love how 'speak like a fucking adult in a classroom' is 'anti-black'
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Exactly! Teachers have been waging a war on slang since English was standardised! My eighty year old father and his mates used to get the fucking cane from his teachers if they refused to speak Queen's English- and we're Australian!

If the list had been pronouns and the three hundred and eighty seven genders the twat who posted the list would have been congratulating the teacher on their dedication to their students.

Emphasis on basic vocabulary and language structure away from informal settings =/= racism. It's so that children and teenagers can learn situation specific and appropriate vocabulary. Education, basically. Would you buy a car from a hood nigga, or feel comfortable under the care of a hood nigga surgeon?

It's insane how racist these people are, and how hell bent they are in making sure their pet pee-oh-cees are incapable of earning a living or dragging themselves out of "generational poverty".
 
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glass_houses said:
how hell bent they are in making sure their pet pee-oh-cees are incapable of earning a living or dragging themselves out of "generational poverty"
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Which shows that SJWs really want so-called "marginalized groups" to stay that way.
 
Local Degenerate said:
Gotta love how 'speak like a fucking adult in a classroom' is 'anti-black'
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If anyone used the current year's slang in the classroom when I was a student, they'd been seen as idiots. It's not unreasonable to expect appropriate and reasonable communication/interaction during a class period - and expecting that to be the standard is not racist.

In the past, I had business to tend to at an inner city private school. It wouldn't be too off base to say the student body was at least 90% Black and Hispanic. When I arrived on campus, I wasn't sure which entrance was the one I needed. The minority student I asked gave me a polite answer and another polite response when I thanked them. If kids are raised with expectations of basic civility when it comes to social interaction, they will behave appropriately. If they're taught learned helplessness or that it's okay to play the victim card all the time, they will act like idiots and feel good behavior is too problematic and triggering for them.

I'll agree with @glass_houses that a teacher who demanded students embrace pride logos and use nonsensical pronouns that read like someone typing for the first time would be lauded as stunning, brave, and progressive.

Mexican Molotov Marauder said:
Any form of corpo speak, but I particularly hate it when they call wagies "associates."
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That and similar terms are grating. In a past career, I worked at a client site where employee departments were called "teams." Between office drama and the lack of opportunities for collaboration between "team" members, this was the biggest joke and misnomer of my professional career to date.
 
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Mexican Molotov Marauder said:
Any form of corpo speak
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I've used a company Slack where the term "fri-yay eve" was used to refer to Thursday. Ever since then, my life has not known peace. Snakes have begun to physically manifest in my home.


Oh, and the weird zoomer thing where people end their sentences with hyphens-

Not in the way that implies a sentence cut short, but rather a direct substitution of a period with a hyphen. I've asked about and I cannot for the life of me get a straight answer as to who started this idiotic trend and why. It's not even easier to type a hyphen on a phone keyboard.
 
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Boggy B said:
I've used a company Slack where the term "fri-yay eve" was used to refer to Thursday. Ever since then, my life has not known peace. Snakes have begun to physically manifest in my home.


Oh, and the weird zoomer thing where people end their sentences with hyphens-

Not in the way that implies a sentence cut short, but rather a direct substitution of a period with a hyphen. I've asked about and I cannot for the life of me get a straight answer as to who started this idiotic trend and why. It's not even easier to type a hyphen on a phone keyboard.
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First thing is unbelievably cursed, did you work with teens

Supposedly, periods make text "look harsh"/rude/over-serious
 
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UnsufficentBoobage said:
First thing is unbelievably cursed, did you work with teens
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All I'll say is that it was accessory to fairly significant infrastructure and not some two-bit data entry gig.
The slam-pig at the top sought to promote the "family corpo culture" that's so prevalent now and apparently confused the words "family" and "insufferable" in the dictionary.
 
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Richey Edwards said:
It feels like the Mafia.
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I wish, the real reason is nastier. "Employee" has a built in implication of power imbalance, thus the workers subconsciously develop an us-versus-them mentality. "Associate" has a more neutral implication. They do this to get the workers to develop a parasocial relationship with the company, so they are more willing to work overtime, even unpaid. That's why social media was full of videos where "this and that corposation's hq has a daycare and even a gym, if you work here you only have to go home to sleep!" The want the corposation to be your life, all in order to extract just one more penny's worth out of you. Obviously this manipulation doesn't work on everyone, but they do it because it works often enough to be worth the effort.
 
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Seems SJWs use "socialized" to describe any "wrongthink" that's healthy and natural, and thus is "normal". There also seems to be the implication that whatever is being "called out" as "socialized" would somehow not be a thing if normal values were somehow different.

For example, thinking men in drag feels wrong or off may be called "socialized transphobia" by SJWs.
 
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