"colored people" = broke
"people of color" = woke
🤔

"people of spectrum"

There is an underlying linguistic mechanism. PC demands "people" comes first. "People with disabilities" vs "disabled people" is the most known example

my favorite is "differently abled"

they come up with some cringey terms and people just go with it.

Well, it has a bit to do with POC "reclaiming" words. For instance, they've normalized and made it socially acceptable to use "the N word" by stating they've reclaimed it by merely removing "the hard R". Which is really just putting into written speech the sounds that come out of people's mouths due to accent and linguistics. It's the same word.

following that mechanism, PoC are just "differently white", and gay people are "differently straight"

But woe be the person who is not socially acceptable or politically correct to use such phrases or words.

To all my IE borthers and sitsers in their late 20s and older, when the cool new memes are getting harder to understand...

Hahaha! I still don't understand the huwhite monster memes. 🤔

\*sips\*

@Phillip Wiglesworth - FL The weirdest one is "queer" and "d*ke" (not sure if that's acceptable on the server). Used to be it was a potent word that would get you an atomic-level laugh or dentention (depending on the local teacher's predilections). Now they call themselves it?

And the new weird thing is "Femme"? I guess it just means MtF trannies *and* (so-called) feminine women?

@Sonic On the way out to mow his lawn, the 30 year-old boomer asks the 30 year-old Millenial sitting in his studio at the computer: "So, are ya winnin' your video game there?" The 30 year-old boomer sips his white monster energy zero as he thanks GOD that he's not like the 30 year-old millennial. "Actually," the millenial replies, "this isn't really the type of game that you *win*, per se."

It's borderline, but I think it's okay to discuss in an intellectual sense. It's ugly language and I'm always both intrigued and disturbed at how people would use ugly speech as "terms of endearment"

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN

Ahh ok. Thanks

@ThisIsChris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgUB2uyXK6c?vq=hd1080

In college I was forced to read a book by a self-described "d**e activist" this was in 2006 and boggled my mind then. I thought to myself "a Chicano author would never call themselves a [river related slur] activist!"

On the language topic I wonder when they'll reclaim fa**ot as a term to be proud of.. Seems like it's the only derogatory lgbt term anymore. Will delete post if necessary.

On TV, and unfortunately in person, I have seen sassy gay men say that, like blacks sometimes throw the N-word around with the vowel ending.

Even milo (cringe) used it but I think ironically.

Milo used it to get reactions, nothing more. He's a degenerate attention whore (literally I imagine).

It’s funny how much the leftist glob embraces toxic words to describe themselves.

When I was a nihilist with a bad attitude, I was also willing to embrace such awful terms. It shows that these people are in deep pain.

I’m attempting to cultivate more compassion for our “unwoke” counterparts. They don’t make it easy.

They elevate and embrace degeneracy and abhor anything wholesome or traditional. It all traces back to the Frankfurt school.

@Sonic yes, in hindsight. When you grow up to apathetic parents in an apathetic society with no real future...

We have millions of our brothers and sisters calling themselves white trash. Self deprecation is in vogue, even for those outside of polite society

I had a very rough childhood, and all of my friends had the same. It’s easy to blame yourself for your misery when you don’t have any other outlets for the disgust you feel.

In high school, I had an eminem phase that started originally just because I liked the way he'd say words like f** and I connected with the anger

I feel like people in this movement are on average very intelligent but also quite prone to depression and social alienation

@TMatthews I agree. We are passionate.

Passion is seen as anger to those who aren’t also passionate!

I grew up in DC to a very political family. You would often hear people passionately discussing politics in a restaurant. I’m used to it. I crave it!

Depression, I dunno about that. We all control our mental state.

Social alienation, yes. Our views are well beyond "modern year" approved thought.

I'd imagine a high percentage of us are contrarians by nature.@TMatthews

I also crave it, but we need to take breaks from being political all the time. It's harder for us because we can't, for example, go see a movie with friends or a date without seeing subliminal propaganda, but still worthwhile to refresh mentally

@Tyler0317 to a certain degree, yes we do control our mental state. But it’s easy to get lost as a kid or teen when you have no community looking out for you.

@TMatthews I connected with heavy metal to vent anger in high school (and now tbh).

@TMatthews you’re right. It’s hard to escape the poz. I posted a pic above of the new ballet season at the university near me. It’s disgusting.

Having been pro-white before the alt-right was a thing, it's a little easier for me to put setbacks in perspective and see how far we've come. Even so, when I couldn't do any physical activity due to surgery, I had a lot of pent up frustration