The following expressions are stupid and should not be used:
- multipolar (in political contexts)
- Global South
- color revolutions
- settler colonialism
- -phobia (outside of a psychiatrist’s office)
It’s embarrassing to employ such language unironically.
Also, it’s time to retire the expression “teaching critical thinking” because it has come to mean “raising mindless drones who stupidly repeat slogans.”
And “work-life balance.” Somebody make that one go away already.
What other words and expressions should take a rest for a while or forever?
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“self-care”
“trauma” (used outside a doctor’s office)
“sex-work” in place of prostitution (would people advocating this term accept the idea of rape as stolen wages? because that’s what it implies)
“patriarchy” (especially in the west)
“systemic/structural/institution racism” (anyone using this unironically is a retard who either wants more free stuff, or is grappling with the feeling of guilt and inadequacy from receiving institutional benefits while not being deserving of them)
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Personal beef: “You do you.” “Be yourself.” Your “authentic” self. “To know it in one’s heart.”
Such self-serving narcissistic expressions reduce me to a state of impotent rage.
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impactful is a word that has to go.
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“Your truth”
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God, I hate this one. And it’s derivative “living your truth”. Also, “amplify voices”.
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I was always perplexed by “folx.” ”Folks” is not a gendered term so why change it?
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It’s the current marketing glurge: “everything’s cooler with an X in it!”
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Ha! I’m old enough to remember the weird trend of replacing c’s with k’s back in the 90s. Bekause that makes your diskource kompletely kool.
(kommenter formerly known as AkademikLurker)
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Everything old is new again…
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“lived experience,” as if there’s any other kind. Also a favorite of DEI parasites.
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Strangely, my “lived experience” in the USSR is never accepted as valuable. So some lived experiences are more equal than others.
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“Black and brown bodies”. More generally, referring to people as “bodies”. Incredibly dehumanizing, yet used mostly by people who fancy themselves oh so kind and caring.
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I’m so with you. Hate “the bodies.” But also “black and brown voices.” Such cringe.
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Among other neurological oddities, I have a bit of sound—>visual synaesthesia. Am happy to report that there are definitely “brown voices”. It’s a thing.
But the idea that they must come from brown people is just silly. Brown voices are the ones that default to a frequency just above middle C.
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I hate the current use of “cope”.
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“At this point in time…”
“Going forward…”
“It is what it is…”
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I’ll circle back to it.
I hate it deeply.
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