“Trauma” too. When you can use the same word to describe your reaction to “used different pronoun” or “saw a white guy on the street who has an Afro” as you would for “sexually abused by teacher” or “my hand got cut off,” you know something’s wrong.
"problematic" means "we have not yet deemed this thing haram, but it is kinda sorta similar to what we libs call haram, so I think we should be moving towards calling this thing haram as well".
"problematic" is how libtards spray their little chemical ant pheromone signal on something in order to provoke their fellow libtards to attack.
I feel the same about "challenges." Such as being mobility challenged (disabled), document challenged (illegal alien), visually challenged (legally blind), housing challenged (homeless), age and budget challenged (old and poor).
It's intentional obfuscation of the severity of the problem.
The best way to push back against that kind of linguistic mutilation is mocking it by taking it to extremes. Like if a woke person says "fat" or even "plus sized" be like "woah woah you mean gravitationally challenged."
Also, somewhat related, my buddy is getting a masters in education and frequently tells me about the crazy woke shit he encounters. The craziest linguistic manipulation I've ever heard is probably when he told me they would say someone has "exceptionalities" instead of "disabilities."
I enjoy interjecting the word 'sinful' after, since it's just the secular version of the word. Moat of the people who use it dont appreciate the comparison.
No joke, I had someone describe people doing their own research on covid was problematic and my sarcastic reply that all scientific journals should be published in latin so that the peasants can't make their own interpretations was bewildering to them, but not effective.
I've also found that if someone tries to say that they've moved past their former behavior, usually a particularly vocal social zealot getting it brought up, always interject "so it's like you've been born again?"
this is the most beloved tool of entryism and subversion of power. propaganda would be ten times harder to deploy without it.
it consists of a series of actions.
make sure the higher amount of possible words in a vocabulary become adjectives to describe violence.
make sure to use words that have a positive connotation to describe actual terrible things and events.
make sure to use words that have a negative connotation to describe good things and events for your opponent's cause.
makeup new words to be used to describe as bad something that is perfectly normal or good for your opponent's cause.
makeup new words to be used to describe as good something that is objectively terrible for your cause.
the principle behind his work is the same as cognitive dissonance. by using specific words not in their right contest long enough you attach another meaning to these words that is negative/antithetic to its original. Every time a person uses these words they would express two opposing meanings. this dissonance causes distress in the person who will subconsciously resolve it by deciding on a single meaning for the world.
in this case, the word is "weaponized". it can no longer be used to express the meaning it should carry, it has become a battleground.
normally in a free country, multiple groups of interests fling these around all the time, but there is always a dominant ideology that comes on top at one point, every generation or so.
Example:
Feminist goes around claiming every man is a rapist.
man reply to feminist telling not all men are rapists.
Feminists reply to him calling him misogynist. (bad word dropped)
suddenly if a man doesn't agree with the fool-of-the-village he is now at the same level as a wifebeater.
this man is not a wuss so he fights back against the feminist, but it doesn't matter the word was not for him...
the boss of his boss of his boss of his boss is a cuck. and he cares about not getting called bad words. he has a reputation after all.
people in positions of influence in society begin to do gestures of virtue signaling and opening doors to the feminists to avoid getting called bad names.
feminists begin permeating organizations nominally their role is to fight misogyny, in reality, is pure unadulterated power grabbing. (and you get motte and bailey)
as soon the mechanism shows effectiveness every psychopath grifter hungry for power jumps on the bandwagon, swear they always have been feminists, tunes to the ideology totally, and will try to seize positions of power.
the feminists (or whatever it means at this point) obtain more and more positions of influence in the hierarchy of society, to the point where they can now benefit allies and punish dissenters reliably. (and you get authoritarianism)
at this point, people in order to avoid nefarious consequences for themselves, roleplay, and start doing what the ideology expects. (and you get compliance)
this continues to expand until you get to the point that an unrealistic large amount of people inside prominent organizations all claim to be perfectly on the same page on everything, (and you get wrongthink)
the dissenters call those who obey slaves and laugh at them, this hurt the ego of those who receive the insult and to prove the dissenters wrong they start plunging into the ideology more and more to prove they actually really believe in the ideology.
at this point, the feminists well enshrined in positions of power will suggest a better solution for their peons. which is this: the dissenters aren't just wrong, they are evil! destroy the dissenters and obtain the dawn of tomorrow's world. (and you get crusades)
from the dawn of the word the strong squash the weak and the weak scheme to topple the strong, violence, prejudice, and racism exist, they aren't just universally negative things but tools to protect you the oppressed from scheming manipulators.
ps: whiteness objectification capitalist police of climate change because silence is violence! 9999 critical HIT!
It's the problematic 3500, guaranteed to slice and dice through any tough bit of information you have. Women aren't oppressed? The problematic will make mince meat out of them. Forests are growing, not shrinking? The problematic will tear them down.
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The word "toxic" is another perfectly good word they ruined.
“Trauma” too. When you can use the same word to describe your reaction to “used different pronoun” or “saw a white guy on the street who has an Afro” as you would for “sexually abused by teacher” or “my hand got cut off,” you know something’s wrong.
“At risk” is another one 😒🤦🏼
“Your views put people AT RISK...”
From whom exactly, ze Germans?
"problematic" means "we have not yet deemed this thing haram, but it is kinda sorta similar to what we libs call haram, so I think we should be moving towards calling this thing haram as well".
"problematic" is how libtards spray their little chemical ant pheromone signal on something in order to provoke their fellow libtards to attack.
Yikes
Oh wow...
Oh sweetie...
The only useful thing about anyone using the word "problematic" is that it immediately lets me know if I am speaking to a woke cultist.
The horrific thing is when you realize that most of the people you know are woke.
That term is also part of the problem. The correct term is "brainwashed" or "brainwashing".
I use "neo-Marxist" for "woke."
I feel the same about "challenges." Such as being mobility challenged (disabled), document challenged (illegal alien), visually challenged (legally blind), housing challenged (homeless), age and budget challenged (old and poor).
It's intentional obfuscation of the severity of the problem.
Please tell me you made that one up, and it isn't something you've seen used.
The best way to push back against that kind of linguistic mutilation is mocking it by taking it to extremes. Like if a woke person says "fat" or even "plus sized" be like "woah woah you mean gravitationally challenged."
Also, somewhat related, my buddy is getting a masters in education and frequently tells me about the crazy woke shit he encounters. The craziest linguistic manipulation I've ever heard is probably when he told me they would say someone has "exceptionalities" instead of "disabilities."
"x-challenged" in vocabulary though long predates the contemporary woke movement though.
IIRC, the concept was introduced in the late 90s/early aughts in a PC attempt to stamp out the colloquial use of the term "retarded".
I disagree about separating the late 90s PC movement from contemporary wokeism, it was just it's larval form.
I admire your patience that it's taken until now to get on your nerves. That or you're very lucky in the company you keep.
It is a problem, for their kind. Relish in it.
When they say "problematic" "dangerous" "hateful" etc they mean "doesn't support the gay commie agenda".
edit: further reading https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-problematics/
hit back.
just keep going back to this. don't argue. don't even try to make sense. here's why...
they will do it for you!
in their brainwashing, they've developed the "ability" to rationalize anything as racist, sexist, antisemitic, etc.
move into the city, that's gentrification, move out and it's white flight. no matter what, they will rationalize you as racist.
they get here by repetition. so just keep repeating it.
did this during the 2020 george kirby riots and it drove them fucking nuts. they'd stop posting dumb shit.
I enjoy interjecting the word 'sinful' after, since it's just the secular version of the word. Moat of the people who use it dont appreciate the comparison.
Can you give an example? I like fucking with lefties.
No joke, I had someone describe people doing their own research on covid was problematic and my sarcastic reply that all scientific journals should be published in latin so that the peasants can't make their own interpretations was bewildering to them, but not effective.
I've also found that if someone tries to say that they've moved past their former behavior, usually a particularly vocal social zealot getting it brought up, always interject "so it's like you've been born again?"
The three pillars of leftism.
language weaponization.
this is the most beloved tool of entryism and subversion of power. propaganda would be ten times harder to deploy without it.
it consists of a series of actions.
make sure the higher amount of possible words in a vocabulary become adjectives to describe violence.
make sure to use words that have a positive connotation to describe actual terrible things and events.
make sure to use words that have a negative connotation to describe good things and events for your opponent's cause.
makeup new words to be used to describe as bad something that is perfectly normal or good for your opponent's cause.
makeup new words to be used to describe as good something that is objectively terrible for your cause.
the principle behind his work is the same as cognitive dissonance. by using specific words not in their right contest long enough you attach another meaning to these words that is negative/antithetic to its original. Every time a person uses these words they would express two opposing meanings. this dissonance causes distress in the person who will subconsciously resolve it by deciding on a single meaning for the world.
in this case, the word is "weaponized". it can no longer be used to express the meaning it should carry, it has become a battleground.
normally in a free country, multiple groups of interests fling these around all the time, but there is always a dominant ideology that comes on top at one point, every generation or so.
Example:
Feminist goes around claiming every man is a rapist.
man reply to feminist telling not all men are rapists.
Feminists reply to him calling him misogynist. (bad word dropped)
suddenly if a man doesn't agree with the fool-of-the-village he is now at the same level as a wifebeater.
this man is not a wuss so he fights back against the feminist, but it doesn't matter the word was not for him...
the boss of his boss of his boss of his boss is a cuck. and he cares about not getting called bad words. he has a reputation after all.
people in positions of influence in society begin to do gestures of virtue signaling and opening doors to the feminists to avoid getting called bad names.
feminists begin permeating organizations nominally their role is to fight misogyny, in reality, is pure unadulterated power grabbing. (and you get motte and bailey)
as soon the mechanism shows effectiveness every psychopath grifter hungry for power jumps on the bandwagon, swear they always have been feminists, tunes to the ideology totally, and will try to seize positions of power.
the feminists (or whatever it means at this point) obtain more and more positions of influence in the hierarchy of society, to the point where they can now benefit allies and punish dissenters reliably. (and you get authoritarianism)
at this point, people in order to avoid nefarious consequences for themselves, roleplay, and start doing what the ideology expects. (and you get compliance)
this continues to expand until you get to the point that an unrealistic large amount of people inside prominent organizations all claim to be perfectly on the same page on everything, (and you get wrongthink)
the dissenters call those who obey slaves and laugh at them, this hurt the ego of those who receive the insult and to prove the dissenters wrong they start plunging into the ideology more and more to prove they actually really believe in the ideology.
at this point, the feminists well enshrined in positions of power will suggest a better solution for their peons. which is this: the dissenters aren't just wrong, they are evil! destroy the dissenters and obtain the dawn of tomorrow's world. (and you get crusades)
from the dawn of the word the strong squash the weak and the weak scheme to topple the strong, violence, prejudice, and racism exist, they aren't just universally negative things but tools to protect you the oppressed from scheming manipulators.
ps: whiteness objectification capitalist police of climate change because silence is violence! 9999 critical HIT!
Yeah, its use is... problematic.
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It's the problematic 3500, guaranteed to slice and dice through any tough bit of information you have. Women aren't oppressed? The problematic will make mince meat out of them. Forests are growing, not shrinking? The problematic will tear them down.
And, if you order now we will also give you the Yikes and Gay lingo for absolutely free. That's right, free.
If you are ready to cut your difficult information down order the Problematic 3500 today!
Oof
Conservatives are just libs going the speed limit.