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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCults and cult-like movements will often coin new words as well as recycle existing words, phrases
This has a couple of functions...
These groups often have narrow ideologies that are quite extreme, so with these words and phrases, they can refit the world and explain how it works in a new sense
They can also use these words and phrases to communicate with other insiders as well as identify and denigrate the outsider, the 'other'.
The Hutaree had their bizarre rank system - Radok, Boramander, Zulif, Arkon, and Lukore
Scientology has "fair game", "suppressive persons", "clear", "dead agent", and more
White supremacy has "1488", "14 words", "RaHoWa", and others
Incels identify their 'enemies' (AKA anyone with a sexuality they don't share) as "Chads" or "Beckys"
And then you see today's right wing... throwing out things like "political correctness", "virtue signaling", and "cultural marxism", making sure to use "liberal" as an insulting adjective, and describing anything they don't like as "socialist"
msongs
(67,405 posts)Fuzzpope
(602 posts)No need for new shit when old faithfuls like "dick head", "asshole", and "moron" still retain perfect functionality.
People really do sound intolerably idiotic when they huff up and start the talking parrot thing, spouting sticky globular crud-strings of hyperstylized battle lingo like "libtard".
I mean seriously, does anybody realize how fucking stoopid they sound barking out "libtard"???
Anyone?
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,339 posts)Rush Limbaugh is their prophet.
Fuzzpope
(602 posts)Although I must confess, I'm a little partial to the "nukular" thing, but strictly in the GWB dialect:
New-kew-lurr.
That's special.