"Current year" terms that piss you off

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Meat Target said:
"Voter suppression" to describe even the most modest changes to voting rules.
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Using "suppression" synonymous with "discrimination" is one of my piss-offs.

Legoshi said:
"Mental Health" is the new trendy term nowadays in the media that nobody will stop talking about.
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I think part of this term's overuse is the fact today's teens often don't learn any sort of coping skills. I recently read a newspaper article about a black student who needed a "mental health day" because someone said or wrote the n-work in her presence. Hurt feelings shouldn't be sufficient grounds to take a break from the reality that people can and do behave cruelly and their words can only hurt if you allow them to. So much for empowerment, huh? 🤷‍♂️

Meat Target said:
Pride propaganda being plastered everywhere.
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My morning job's computer currently has a Microsoft-sponsored Pride Month-themed screensaver in the rotation of ones being displayed right now. Oddly, the computer I use for my home office hasn't displayed it.

I'd go one step further and add that people and business entities using pride month and the pride flag solely for woke points when they're largely indifferent about about LGBTetc. rights beyond virtue signalling is also piss off worthy.
 
"Critical theory." Rather than what is should be a great and enlightening divestment into a particular subject, it feels as if it's more of an intellectuals' dartboard of progressive postulations.

When does it even end?
 
Lately I’ve been really bothered by “brown” as a catch-all term for basically any ethnicity that’s neither European/white nor African/black, mostly countries near the equator. Feels like it was a pejorative term not long ago, now the woke seem to use it to group together all these people with completely different cultures because white man bad. Yes, it might accurately describe their skin tone, but it gets extra weird when “black and brown bodies” is thrown in there. Just say South Asian, Latin, Polynesian etc.
 
Banana Bread said:
Lately I’ve been really bothered by “brown” as a catch-all term for basically any ethnicity that’s neither European/white nor African/black, mostly countries near the equator. Feels like it was a pejorative term not long ago, now the woke seem to use it to group together all these people with completely different cultures because white man bad. Yes, it might accurately describe their skin tone, but it gets extra weird when “black and brown bodies” is thrown in there. Just say South Asian, Latin, Polynesian etc.
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It's mainly Indians (India) who get on my nerves with all the "brown" bitching.

I think it's mainly because unlike their past with Britain they don't even have a current or historical reason to be in the USA or Canada-- and yet we took them in and gave them the chance to strike it rich and this is the kind of grief they give us in return. They would have been still swimming around with mamba snakes and rabid stray dogs in raw sewage and human cremains in the roasting tropical heat back home-- but go off about your reecist colonial oppression at our hands over here Priya.

They can be as arrogant as they are cringey at times and it ain't cute.

I should probably just shrug and laugh at their flailing attempts to hop onto the black train but it's just too irritating.
 
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Follower policing. Not a word/phrase, more a concept. I'm a Twitterfag (ew) and I see some of the people I follow occasionally post "this account posts wrongthink and I have mutuals following them, block this account and report them for wrongthink or you're a bad person too!"

Sometimes the account in question really is someone who shouldn't be interacted with, most of the time it's just various wrongthink.

What's worse is people who go through the follower list of people they follow looking for wrongthinkers and dm you saying "you follow so-and-so? Don't you know he's a terrible person? You are who you associate with!" This hasn't happened to me, but has happened to people I follow.
 
Accept Only Substitutes said:
Follower policing. Not a word/phrase, more a concept. I'm a Twitterfag (ew) and I see some of the people I follow occasionally post "this account posts wrongthink and I have mutuals following them, block this account and report them for wrongthink or you're a bad person too!"
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The part that gets me is how social media platforms have rules against "Targeted Harassment" (whatever that really means), yet they turn a blind eye to left-leaning individuals making these "OMG, everyone pls report username for hurting my fee-fees!" which seems like a textbook definition of targeted harassment because it's an organized effort to submit multiple reports against a user with the majority of the people making reports having never interacted with, or harmed in any way by, the person being reported.

This seems to be part of a trend of, "Person X is guilty of Y because I say so," that's occurred more frequently over the past few years with the end result being calls to deplatform someone on the basis of evidence that's sketchy and circumstantial at best.
 
Accept Only Substitutes said:
Follower policing. Not a word/phrase, more a concept. I'm a Twitterfag (ew) and I see some of the people I follow occasionally post "this account posts wrongthink and I have mutuals following them, block this account and report them for wrongthink or you're a bad person too!"

Sometimes the account in question really is someone who shouldn't be interacted with, most of the time it's just various wrongthink.

What's worse is people who go through the follower list of people they follow looking for wrongthinkers and dm you saying "you follow so-and-so? Don't you know he's a terrible person? You are who you associate with!" This hasn't happened to me, but has happened to people I follow.
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This shit is basically the same as "do not interact/DNI" and I hate them both.

On that note, "content warning/CW."
 
After the insanity of Clown World exploded in 2020, the words "social" and "society" can be annoying.

"Social" in Clown World is a clusterbomb where too much is "offensive" or "inappropriate".

"Society" in Clown World is a prison - or mental asylum - of isolated and atomized people.

(and of course there's drunk-on-power tyrants who made it this way)
 
"Atomized." People kvetching about everyone being isolated are, in my estimation, just themselves lonely.
 
Sped Xing said:
"Atomized." People kvetching about everyone being isolated are, in my estimation, just themselves lonely.
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I think I'm lucky that whenever I hear "Atomized" I think reduced to individual atoms (EG vaporized). That's the scifi nerd in me. 😁

It's probably been mentioned already, but the word "discussion". When somebody or an institution wants to have a "discussion about X", it usually means a didactic lecture where no other viewpoints besides what's intended to be presented are allowed. This is basically the exact opposite of a discussion (from my pre-current-year education at least).
 
Referring to trooning out, especially kids, as "healthcare".

Sanctimonious clickbait headline tropes. "We need to talk about two-sentence headlines with emphasis periods. Here's why."
 
naaaaiiiiillllll!!! said:
"discussion"
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It's the same with calling a one-sided lecture a "conversation" too.

Blamo said:
Yeah, it certainly is an overused word.
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I've used "atomizing" because modern society really is isolating - at least or especially in the city, and in "ultra-modern" places like America or Japan. It's like a "mall mentality" where socialization past school may only happen in established social circles, and with strangers it's business only. There are so many who don't even know who their neighbors are. And the modern world has so many "social rules" now.

relevant article I linked to before:

The Age of Asperger: Modern Society is Autistic! | Psychology Today

The causes are clear. Urbanization means that social groups are too large and anonymous to allow personal familiarity. Multi-culturalism means that society is too heterogeneous to sustain a common mental culture and that the host culture is disqualified from dominance. Rapid social change combined with increased life expectancy means that older individuals become alienated and disorientated as values change or reverse in their lifetimes, while the young reject them and their mental world as out-of-date and irrelevant.
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