Newspeak terms you hate

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As predicted in the famous novel 1984 by George Orwell, the fictional socialist party, which later inspired the modern-day Democrats, would come up with new words to replace the old "mean" words, and that prediction has come to fruition. Terms like birthing person and cisgender women have been used to replace woman as a term. Another example of a newspeak term I can't stand is replacing boyfriend/girlfriend with "partner" to destigmatize abnormal sexual relations.

What are some Newspeak terms you hate? Feel free to comment below.
 
Degrowth. It's not just Newspeak in terms of being a stupid modern colloquialism, it's a word that actually fits the pattern of Newspeak, like "ungood". Houseless doesn't track quite as strongly, but it's somehow even gayer.

Also "died by suicide". As though there are wild suicides roaming the streets going around mauling people to death. They COMMITTED suicide, you absolute pussies.
 
OPTICS. I HATE the word OPTICS meaning "appearance", "image" or "façade". Positively Orwellian.

NEURODIVERSE or NEURODIVERGENT meaning "retard".
 
blocklist/allowlist. It was pushed hard during BLM riots and is fucking retarded. Same for primary/secondary instead of master/slave or even just master, as in master bedroom.
 
all of them but especially the ones i dont understand. Ive been aggressively avoiding whatever the fuck a labubu is.
Same for primary/secondary instead of master/slave or even just master, as in master bedroom.
im going to start calling all the other rooms in my house slave rooms
 
Less Newspeak, more epithet for that horrid state of modern commercial "food."

Thread Tax:
  • "Unhoused"
  • "Undocumented"
  • "Person of $TRAIT"
  • "Criminal justice system impacted person"
  • "Mental health event"
  • "Latinx"
  • "Intersectionality"
  • "Heteronormativity"
  • "Restorative justice"
  • "Anti-racist"
  • "Marginalized individuals"
  • "Neurodivergent"
  • "Neurospicy"
  • Pretty much any term used to describe troons/pooners/enbys and any other genderspecial freak.


Same for primary/secondary instead of master/slave or even just master, as in master bedroom.
"oWnEr'S sUiTe."
 
Also "died by suicide". As though there are wild suicides roaming the streets going around mauling people to death. They COMMITTED suicide, you absolute pussies.
True, unless you have evidence that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton - then you do "die by suicide".
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to fat-shame some "body-positive" tubs of lard.
 
"woke". We used to just call it "faggot shit" but that's not advertiser friendly :^) so now the grifters say woke instead because they want the money
Does anyone remember when woke used to be a good term? Before woke became the new term for liberal, it used to mean someone was "in the know." For example, Alex Jones was "woke" about 9/11. I don't know who changed the meaning of woke to its current meaning, but I prefer how it's used now.
Honestly if news have a Black anchor
and when a bunch of black people get arrested for shoplifting and mobbing a random civilian
the anchor goes "GET THOSE GOD DAMN DIRTY NIGGERS OFF THE STREETS AND RIGHT TO JAIL"

I bet 1000% people be tuning to tv news again.
I think news should be turned into a WWE spectacle, like Anchorman. Imagine a riot or protest being covered the same way as Wrestlemania; that would be extremely funny and entertaining.
 
NEURODIVERSE or NEURODIVERGENT meaning "retard".
I'm autistic and I get pretty annoyed at "neurodiverse" and similar "nicer" replacements for "mentally disabled".
I honestly prefer words like "aut", "aspie", and of course "retard".
 
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