Here’s an example from me
If you want to de-normalize a nation’s state/government, call them
spoiler
a regime
Other examples include: hospital --> loony bin
Edit: the more I think about it, the more I realize dysphemism are insults?
call social programs ‘entitlements’.
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”.
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.
I like the term “earned benefits” for things like Social Security that you have to pay into.
Calling refugees “immigrants”
Calling making an effort to be inclusive with people marginalised in some way, “woke”
“Booze-hound” to mean someone with an alcohol addiction
and someone who is addicted to drugs is sometimes called a “junkie”.
they usually just use my first name
Tbf, western tourists kinda be like that tho…
Back when I was in high school, I remember people calling introverts and goths “freaks” (i.e. people who are outside the “norm”.)
classic normie behavior
I tell my friends that Asperger’s is a super power and that the word, “normies” is an insult.
i.e. “boring” 💪
Exactly.
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.
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.
Some people call a therapist a “shrink”.
There are a number of dysphemisms that are used to signify a person displaying symptoms of mental illness:
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crazy
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whack job (or whacko)
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lunatic
And I’ve heard someone with a physical disability is called (cringe) a “gimp”. Ugh.
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“Socialism turns out to work pretty well and is beating our ass” --> “Now, no one — certainly not me — is discounting the power of markets,” Sullivan noted at the time. “But in the name of oversimplified market efficiency, a large non-market economy had been integrated into the international economic order in a way that posed considerable challenges.”
Getting “dumped” (for being on the non-consenting side of a break up.)
