"Current year" terms that piss you off

[sophnar0747]

'Ableist' is pretty high on my shit list these days.

 

[Son of Odin]

Anything that Coronavirus-related TV commercials say like:

"In these uncertain/unprecedented times"
"(((Corporation))) is here for you, which is why we're offering <insert money-grabbing scheme here>"
"In this together"
"New normal"

Hell, even the sound of somber piano playing pisses me off now.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Anything that Coronavirus-related TV commercials say

Target has a commercial like that. "Birthdays still happen. Kisses goodnight... [we're still here]." (something like that)

It sounds so cult-like.

 

[AMERICA]

"Play stupid games" is like nails on a chalkboard.

I wonder if they’ll start calling white people “people of no color”?

How about "people with melanin deficiency"?

 

[Silver Chariot]

these days it's "the new normal"

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I wonder if they’ll start calling white people “people of no color”?

They already have names for white people:

"oppressors"
"dominant group"
"Nazis"
"alt-right"
"anyone I don't like"

these days it's "the new normal"

I prefer the "old normal" over the "new normal"...

 

[Meowismysafeword]

This is not current year, but I hate the fact everyone has recently learned the term "gaslighting" and will use it every chance they get.

I hate that the terms "gaslighting" and "projection" have merged in some freakish Siamese twin way.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

"Out of an abundance of caution..."

For example: "Out of an abundance of caution, we are no longer accepting returns until [endlessly changing date]."

Also more are using "stay safe" -- that used to be a CWC-ism.

 

[FuckedUp]

It's not really the term that bothers me, it's the reaction.

"Retard."

For some reason, this word makes culture-policing lefties fly off the handle on a level roughly equivalent to the word "Nigger," and I don't understand why. They claim use of the word is "ableist" somehow, even though the word is both A: a medical term, and B: a colloquial term that's synonymous with "idiot" or "moron." If my saying of the word "retard" makes you think of the mentally handicapped, that's on you, not me.

 

[FluffyTehFennekin]

"Out of an abundance of caution..."

For example: "Out of an abundance of caution, we are no longer accepting returns until [endlessly changing date]."

Also more are using "stay safe" -- that used to be a CWC-ism.

Glad they didn’t claim terms like “Gaybian” or “slow-in-the-mind”.

 

[Bread Fetishist]

Remember when the term ‘yikes’ was an expression of fright and not some annoying-as-fuck slang thrown around by woketards on Twitter? Those were good times.

I mean, a lot of woketard vocabulary really irks me, but few more so than ‘toxic masculinity’.

 

[ZeCommissar]

If its coming out of a neolibs mouth there is a 90% chance it pisses me off and is going to annoy me.

"person of color" pisses me off to my very core. I am just extremely thankful some faggot hasn't said it near me offline. We literally had civil rights movements where the term "colored" was seen as offensive, now we have something that is literally the same things with different wording in a far worse light. "Colored" for the most part usually just meant black and MAYBE Hispanic/native.

Now this POC bullshit dehumanizes and cuts off the vast majority of humanity. It literally is a obstacle to "diversity" since it cuts off every other race from white. Where the fuck is the diversity in neatly putting humanity into two groups? A Asian man does not have the same history and adversity in life as a black man, nor does that black man have the same history as an arab or native American. People are more than just the color of their skin, or lack thereof. Saying "POC" puts way to much empasis on it compared to just describing their fucking phenotype.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

It literally is a obstacle to "diversity" since it cuts off every other race from white.

Identity politics isn't about diversity.

It's about dividing and controlling people.

 

[Chan Fan]

"Unboxing" and "haul"

 

[Sure Thing Idiot]

"Stay in your lane" or any such variation that implies someone isn't allowed to comment on a situation or topic because of a, b, or c. Insert why they can't, such as being Asian and speaking about Hispanic culture, or being male and writing female characters. There's no fucking lanes. People can comment on whatever they want. To me it seems like nothing more than a cheap, childish way to avoid discussion and ignore perspective difference.

 

[Wonderful Id]

"Problematic"

It just sounds so cowardly. "Something about this upsets me (in most likely some bullshit way), but I don't have the courage to specifically call it out, so I'll just say it's problematic and let you know that you should be ashamed for liking it."

 

[ToroidalBoat]

"keep a social distance of..."

The phrase "keep a distance of..." is far less annoying.

 

[FluffyTehFennekin]

I think somebody already said it here, but..
Neurodivergent
It’s just snowflake speak for “mentally ill”
Just say your a nut, you don’t have so “uwu special” about it.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

Anything that Coronavirus-related TV commercials say like:

"In these uncertain/unprecedented times"
"(((Corporation))) is here for you, which is why we're offering <insert money-grabbing scheme here>"
"In this together"
"New normal"

Hell, even the sound of somber piano playing pisses me off now.

Me too, and they all say, "We're here for you". So I'm like, okay, let me go down to my local Toyota dealership and ask them for a free car because i lost my job and can't afford one because of these "trying times."

 

[JambledUpWords]

I think somebody already said it here, but..
Neurodivergent
It’s just snowflake speak for “mentally ill”
Just say your a nut, you don’t have so “uwu special” about it.

I have a feeling that like much social justice terminology, it originated in a clinical and/or academic setting. It’s useful if you’re a psychologist or psychiatrist describing people that think differently as a whole, but it’s easier to just say someone is schizophrenic, autistic, or OCD rather than using a term that vague. Again, this is just my theory.

Besides that, in social justice circles, that term is usually meant to browbeat others because it’s usually mentioned along with the word “neurotypical”.

Anyway, getting rid of mental institutions was a mistake.