"Current year" terms that piss you off -

[Screamer]

"Valid"

Language to train people to think the default position of the world is that they or their opinion isn't valid. It's perception brainwashing shit.

 

[BipolarPon]

Genderfluid it sounds dirty, and is even more attention whoring than non binary.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

"Voter suppression" to describe even the most modest changes to voting rules.

Using "suppression" synonymous with "discrimination" is one of my piss-offs.

"Mental Health" is the new trendy term nowadays in the media that nobody will stop talking about.

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?

Pride propaganda being plastered everywhere.

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.

 

[CrippleThreat]

"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?

 

[Banana Bread]

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.

 

[ClownBrew]

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.

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.

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

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.