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2017's words that can f%ck right off
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| SYSTEM-J |
1. "Toxic". Toxic co-workers, toxic relationships, toxic politics. Never any explanation of what makes something "toxic" as opposed to simply "bad". Generally seems to be used in pathetic articles about what types of nasty people to avoid. right off.
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| Jon_Snow |
| "Trump" also see "alternative" and "grab" |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Agreed on toxic. The only people who use that word or incessantly talking about how everyone and everything else BUT THEM is toxic, are usually complete and utter failures in life. Like hello, if everything is so ing horrible, maybe take a good long look at the common denominator. |
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| Trance-M |
| "Great", I can't hear it any more, Trump totally gave it a different meaning.... |
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| Sykonee |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
1. "Toxic". Toxic co-workers, toxic relationships, toxic politics. Never any explanation of what makes something "toxic" as opposed to simply "bad". Generally seems to be used in pathetic articles about what types of nasty people to avoid. right off.
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Your toxic stance on the word 'toxic' is problematic.
(I'd really love to see 'problematic' go the way of the dodo - just another convoluted synonym for 'bad') |
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| Lira |
2. "Fascist/Fascism". Not really a 2017 word, but the word has peaked way too frequently in the last 12 months both in the US (November and January) and here (during the impeachment), it's hard to take whoever uses this word seriously when they use it to refer to anyone right of Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders...
And, no, Trump isn't a fascist, he's just a despicable human being. |
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| Dykes_on_Jay |
How is toxic contemporary?
15 years plus at least. |
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| Lira |
How about...
3. "Snowflake", when used by right wingers to discredit leftists whenever they draw attention to some issue they disagree with.
4. "Sea lion", when it serves the opposite purpose - that is, to make self-righteous leftists feel that debating them in a civil manner is not a genuine engagement but a way to piss them off or something.
These are pretty recent! |
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| DJ RANN |
Not 2017 words per say, but I'd very much appreciate it if the sentences like "I can't even" would finally off.
Can't even what? Finish the god damn sentence.
Followed closely y by "I'm so excited", used in the most mundane circumstances and usually nothing to do with something that's about to happen. Just a general statement of current status. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dykes_on_Jay
How is toxic contemporary?
15 years plus at least. |
Because it still crops up constantly in 2017, and therefore it's high time it ed right off. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
I will accept Lira's nominations as words that can indeed right off.
5. "Normalise". Another bull, faux-technical description of something bad. Rather than advocating or tolerating unwholesome values, a dodgy cultural artefact must now be "normalising" them. Rather than fearing the rise or growth of the alt-right, or racism, or anti-EU sentiment, people must now fear the "normalisation" of it. right off. |
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| Woony |
| This has been a bull word for the last 15 years but anyways, 6. "sustainable". 99% it's not actually sustainable but just slightly less openly ty to make people feel better about themselves. |
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