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Kupok

Avoid "Wormwords" when influencing others.

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"Wormwords" are words that some communities are particularly focused on using. No matter what idea you're trying to share, if a wormword is included in the idea, you will expose the idea's origin.

For example, referring to sexually active males casually as "Chads" may expose you or your idea as having come from the "Involuntarily Celibate" sub-genre of the internet. No matter the idea's contents, simply using this word will disable the effective spread of your idea.

There are many other examples, but the point is, effective spreading of an idea needs to have it's packaging stripped of any point of origin markers. Words like "Problematic" or "Globalist" are examples of wormwords in which only people within the specific community will casually use in normal conversation.
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Added: 5 years, 6 months ago
 
KevinSnowpaw
5 years, 6 months ago
well thats pretty good advice but there are some words that cant be avoided. You ant speak about the fringe elements of the left for example without using the term "progressive" if your discussing the  professionally offended, it;s hard to avoid using the term Social Justice. If your talking about Serten political powers or ideologies that are anti borders or even just pro freedom of movement or global societies, you cant avoid globalist any more then you can avoid calling a Marxist a DIRTY COMMIE BASTARD! umm i mean a Communist.  If you want to talk about Alex Jones, you MUST mention the frogs =p ok maybe not that last one.


still I agree with you this is pretty good advice a lot of these words also known sometimes as buzzwords, due tend to clue people in that you might have your OWN agenda.

ive never herd of "chads" before. or that it had a cunnection to the incel community I learned something today.

I keep hereing about them lately.. Im going to have to research them they sound HILARIOUSLY entitled.
Kupok
5 years, 6 months ago
Well. It's like this.
"Progressive" is in common vernacular. You can hear that at the office watercooler. Same with Social Justice, really.
But "Es Jay Doubleyou" in reference to liberal folk? If you, without irony, use SJW to describe liberal practices, there's a very, very good chance you hold GOP values. If your argument is "And SJWs want you to..." etc etc, simply having that term can damage the effectiveness of your argument, when you could say instead "Progressives tend to want x, though I'm not sure that's a good idea because..."
Frynge
5 years, 6 months ago
I use "problematic" in its original, intended form, thank you!  

there are cases where such terms are used as required, but otherwise...

given context, it's quite true.
Nishi
5 years, 6 months ago
Yeah, like someone in the comments complains about, "the left" you know to stay away. B3
Rhumba
5 years, 6 months ago
Geohell
Soulfire
5 years, 6 months ago
ok how is "Bow down before me and worship your Pony!! lest i trample ye"   or it that too like religious old school ? O.o
Stumpycoon
5 years, 6 months ago
There's a whole list I have learned lately, radical left, extreme liberal, antifa, red fur, commie fur and cuck fur...all used as slurs by altfurs.  Usually after I spot one of those I let the altfur just puppet parrot all their spiel and check back later in case they are  capable of communication.
Kupok
5 years, 6 months ago
Radical X or Extreme X are common enough that they may come up through original idea.
Cuck in any context except for one very very specific context is most certainly a wormword that has definite origins.

Antifa is iffy. It comes up often enough in old media, and there are a few who wear the moniker, that I'd not begrudge someone to mistakenly believe that antifa is an actual organization in any sense of the word. (Much like "Anonymous" is not an actual organization in any sense of the word)

Rabidly anti-communist sentiment to the point of injecting that sentiment into a conversation that had nothing to do with communism is not within the scope of being a single identifying word, but is most certainly a sentiment that has a definite origin.
hammse
5 years, 6 months ago
personally I find it more eye level (transparent among other things) if it -is- done, but with some self ironic irony (sic). You could easily say charmes are a "worm" concept right there, hence the irony. breaks the ice. Has to remain consistent tho. Wander over Yonder consistently goes over the top with it xD
edit: my exp is facts and care set you up so much better instead of trying what not to do
I find the unovoidability sometimes quite fascinating, one example seems beta for me lately, you can do wonders with it
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&safe=off&...:
hammse
5 years, 6 months ago
(with consistency I mean authentic. I think the only way for this to work with virtual information is doing it as sort of a sport xD)
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