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Microaggression is a term used for commonplace verbal, behavioral or environmental slights, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative attitudes toward members of marginalized groups. [1]
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In historical linguistics, the process of an inoffensive word becoming pejorative is a form of semantic drift known as pejoration.An example of pejoration is the shift in meaning of the word silly from meaning that a person was happy and fortunate to meaning that they are foolish and unsophisticated. [3]
When Trump and Vance question Harris' Black identity, it's an uncomfortable echo of Kendrick Lamar's dissing another rap titan, Drake. Are Black folks letting racist ideas into the culture through ...
Negative campaigning is the process of deliberately spreading negative information about someone or something to worsen the public image of the described. A colloquial, and somewhat more derogatory, term for the practice is mudslinging.
The term has been used as a denigrating word [5] but is also used with more neutral or positive connotations. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the early 1990's Alain Badiou conducted a series of Seminars with the generic topic "Antiphilosophy" [ 6 ] and later adopted the word for a number of publications.
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The following is a list of terms used in relation to age with negative connotations.Many age-negative terms intersect with ableism, or are derogatory toward people with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia.