"I'm just sayin'" Really? Do you have Tourette's syndrome or something? You suddenly had to say those words without any particular meaning behind them in that exact moment because they like felt good in your mouth or something?
Sheeple. This deserves a special place in the litany of words used exclusively by morons. Whining about "the corporations" and thinking you're being contrarian and edgy by complaining about Big Pharma/Big Oil/Big Whatever isn't really a whole lot else but annoying.
The term "rape culture" when paired with "consent". The idea that there need to be PSAs carefully explaining to men what sexual consent is is not only insulting, it's completely ineffective. It implies an understanding of sexual violence slightly below that gained by watching Law and Order SVU for a few hours (is that still running?). Rape is not a problem because a large number of people don't understand what is and isn't violating someone. It's a problem because people are well aware of what "violating someone" means and choose to do it anyway. I agree that there is are cultural elements that condone or at least exacerbate sexual violence problems, but the thinking that the problem is nothing more than a need for a clearer definition of consent is sending the message that men are either stupid or incapable of respect: do they really think it's going to come as a surprise to anyone that getting someone so drunk that they can't stand up and then forcing yourself on them is considered a horrible thing to do? Rape is a problem, but the reason that throwing around the word "consent" bothers me is that it's a half-assed, zero-effort solution that won't get anything done at all.
Oppression. Are some groups more advantaged than others by virtue of factors not under their control? Absolutely: some people will get a better lot in life as a result of being born prettier, smarter, and/or wealthier. I myself am not happy with the situation of women in technical jobs, for instance, where women often have to work twice as hard as men and still get passed over for jobs despite better credentials than competing male applicants, that's disgusting. There certainly is discrimination in society against a whole multitude of different kinds of people. But "oppression" isn't the word for that. "Oppression" is what happens in third-world dictatorships. "Oppression" is when you live in fear that you might accidentally offend the ruling party and be taken away in the middle of the night by the secret police. Those 200 girls who were kidnapped by political extremists and very nearly sold into sex slavery just for wanting to go to school were "oppressed".
"Check your privilege". Seriously, screw off. I acknowledge that I got lucky in life in some ways, but I'm pretty insulted by the notion that everything was just handed to me, or, even worse, that I'm part of some elitist class that seeks for nothing but to keep people down. I will admit that I have the privilege of wealth because of my parents, but that's it. I paid my own way through college with scholarships and work study, and I'm actually being paid to go to graduate school. I rarely asked my parents for anything growing up. But that's the end of my "natural" privilege. I certainly have others too, but here's the wonderful thing, such things can be earned. How did I get "thin privilege"? By dieting and exercising. How did I get "smart privilege"? By studying. Telling me to "check my privilege" is an insult to me because it belittles what I've accomplished in life and, moreover, attempts to pin all of society's problems on me just because of who I happened to be born to.
"Scientism". Obviously, because my background is scientific and technical, in many ways I try to look at things from a purely material and analytical perspective. I think in numbers and, in evaluating and analyzing the world, I see it as a set of data. I believe in scientism in that I think that reason and analysis of evidence are the most effective way to earn a factual and, more importantly, useful understanding of the world. However, most people seem to conflate it with reductionism, and they fail even to understand that, thinking it to mean that my interest in understanding the world means that I consider things worthless, ie, that saying that all things are ultimately made up of subatomic particles means I see people as nothing more valuable than a pile of quarks and leptons.
I could go on, but I need to stop before this turns into an 8 page rant.
