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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Hextubewontallowme@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Here's an example from me

If you want to de-normalize a nation's state/government, call them

spoilera regime


Other examples include: hospital --> loony bin

Edit: the more I think about it, the more I realize dysphemism are insults?

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[-] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 59 points 1 year ago

call social programs 'entitlements'.

[-] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

And it's not wrong to call them that. We are entitled to social programs that we paid into. The issue is the popularity of people saying that some are "entitled" instead of "self-entitled".

[-] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't disagree (that we should get what we paid for), but I think that term is meant to imply that beneficiaries of these programs are spoiled brats. Its idiotic, but then so is our politics. The distinction between 'entitled' and 'self-entitled' I think is way too fine a point for our national discourse.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I like the term “earned benefits” for things like Social Security that you have to pay into.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Calling refugees "immigrants"

Calling making an effort to be inclusive with people marginalised in some way, "woke"

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

"Booze-hound" to mean someone with an alcohol addiction

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

and someone who is addicted to drugs is sometimes called a "junkie".

[-] tourist@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

they usually just use my first name

[-] Hextubewontallowme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Tbf, western tourists kinda be like that tho...

[-] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago
[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Back when I was in high school, I remember people calling introverts and goths "freaks" (i.e. people who are outside the "norm".)

[-] qisope@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I tell my friends that Asperger's is a super power and that the word, "normies" is an insult.

[-] TheWoozy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've aways assumed "normie" was an insult. But I might be over sensitive to such things, becaise "cis" also sounds like an insult to me.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

A lesbian friend was the first person to call me cis. I had no idea what it meant. Now that I understand I have embraced the term to make clear how I see myself. I am a cis male.

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Some people call a therapist a "shrink".

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

There are a number of dysphemisms that are used to signify a person displaying symptoms of mental illness:

  • crazy

  • whack job (or whacko)

  • lunatic

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And I've heard someone with a physical disability is called (cringe) a "gimp". Ugh.

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Getting "dumped" (for being on the non-consenting side of a break up.)

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Relevant to your second example, a lot of people here tend to call therapists "paid friends".

[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago
  • Motorcycle riders : temporary Australians; or meat crayons
  • Mental hospital : Napoleon factory (credit to Robert Heinlein)
[-] Hextubewontallowme@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

meat crayons

Now, that's a colorful right there

Mental hospital : Napoleon factory (credit to Robert Heinlein)

Why wouldn't we want more Napoleons tho?

[-] EndMilkInCrisps@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Popularism seems to just mean offering something actually appealing to the electorate.

[-] Nemo@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago

Populism typically means playing to the appetites of the electorate without any intent to actually benefit them. Empty promises are the heart of it.

[-] EndMilkInCrisps@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah but it's used for things like Bernie wanting universal health care or Corbyn renationalising the railways. Which would benefit people.

[-] Nemo@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

True enough. It's often used wrong as a way to smear good-faith attempts to actually govern as impractical or insincere.

[-] Hextubewontallowme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Nemo@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Populism is only one kind of demagoguery.

[-] Hextubewontallowme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

What's the other?

I mean come on, demagoguery and populism shouldn't be subsects of each other... they practically are synonymous, but one has a more neutral connotation...

[-] Nemo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

They're both negative. Scapegoating an outgroup is another form of demagoguery, so is decrying experienced political institutions as corrupt while claiming to be a reformer.

[-] Hextubewontallowme@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They’re both negative. Scapegoating an outgroup is another form of demagoguery, so is decrying experienced political institutions as corrupt while claiming to be a reformer.

Pardon me if I find this confusing but this seems to be case of "There's actually zero difference between bad and good things." without context...

Have you fully thought through your words to type this out? 😔

[-] Nemo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

How are any of what I listed good things?

[-] Hextubewontallowme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

decrying experienced political institutions as corrupt while claiming to be a reformer.

Someone can just see a theoretical event happening like that and just write and TITLE the news as:

Man leads a pro-democracy movement against corrupt one-party-rule and its institutions...

That being said, scapegoating an outgroup is indeed a demagoguery...

Do you take me for bad-faith arguer?

[-] Nemo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

No, I just think we're having difficulty understanding each other. Or rather, I know I'm not understanding you and thus can't tell whether you're understanding me.

[-] Hextubewontallowme@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Well, ykw, agree to disagree... I'll kill the convo right here, I'm sorry...

[-] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Identity politics is another culprit

[-] Railison@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Kick the bucket for die

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 year ago
[-] TheWoozy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Chitown for Chicago.

[-] mo_lave@reddthat.com -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So-so no Frieren (I actually think it's goated, btw)

You'll see a lot of dysphemisms in the 2____4u communities as well.

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