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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
I think what's different this time is Trump supporters came up with things like #### and snowflake and triggered...because of course, they were projecting just like their dear leader. Notice they are now cool with Trump stabbing them in the back repeatedly (like a #### is cool with you ####ing his wife), and they piss and moan about every little criticism of Trump (like little triggered snowflakes). So I'm just enjoying putting those words back on them, since they are the best representations of the word, despite their likely intense protests of those terms applying to them.
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I mean, they didn't come up with "triggered", obviously. That was
them re-purposing a term used mostly by the left on campuses, which they re-purposed as a sarcastic insult. ####, I think, was actually intended to be racist or xenophobic or both - it wasn't about getting stabbed in the back and not noticing or caring, "you're letting these foreigners and brown people walk all over you" is the subtext there. You've seen the same thing with "fake news".
It's just interesting because I don't remember this being a thing until this cycle, used to be each side had their buzzphrases and talking points and tried to drown the other guys out with them. It's one of those things where I'm going "why didn't anyone think of this sooner?" It's incredibly effective as a PR strategy, though it basically just robs these terms of any clear meaning to the point where everyone's just speaking nonsense.