The end of the world
from climate change
has been delayed,
so you now
have the time
to read these
funny definitions.
originally from
medium.com
AN ORWELEXICON
FOR BIAS AND
DYSFUNCTION
IN ACADEMIA:
Neologisms for the
Insufficiently Woke?
by Lee Jussim
"BANNED BY
PSYCHOLOGY
TODAY",
says author
Lee Jussim, who
submitted these
as a blog post,
which 'disappeared'
in 12 hours.
"Orwelexicon:
Twisting the meaning
of words, to advance
a political or policy
agenda.
Note
-- Most of
the definitions
were not very funny.
So I decided to list
my favorites, below,
with many of the
definitions slightly
edited to be funnier.
Ye Blog Editor,
Richard Greene
AdminoMania:
A delusion that increased administrative and bureaucratic intrusions into people’s lives will actually improve something.
Argumentum ad Dormativum:
Rather than refuting an argument ,you dismisses it with some variation on: “This tiresome idea again?”
Bias Bias:
A bias for seeing biases, such as claiming bias when none exists, or exaggerating biases that do exist.
Cringe Crickets:
People whose brains are so rotted by ideology that all sense of humor, parody, and fun has been irrecoverably lost.
DeContextaphilia:
An unhealthy attraction to quoting others out of context.
Definition Trap:
Avoidance of definitions, or arbitrarily changing meanings of words, to advance political arguments.
DiaPhobia:
Fear and loathing of civil dialogue with one’s opponents.
Emotional Imperialism:
The strange belief that your feelings should dictate someone else’s behavior.
Epistemological Impugnment:
Intellectual bullying. Declaring or implying that a claim should not be believed, not on the basis of logic or evidence showing it to be false. But by tainting the source with real or imagined failings in some other area.
Epistemic Trespassing:
People who have bona fide expertise or competence in one domain or field yet confidently make statements about another field in which they lack expertise or competence.
Equalitimidation:
Intellectual bullying by the use of name-calling, insults, smears, stigmatization, and guilt-by-association to frighten opponents into silence.
Idea Laundering.
An article makes a claim without evidence, is then cited by other articles, until the number of citations creates the impression that the original claim has evidence.
Irony Deficient:
Being unaware, or willfully ignorant, of one’s own absurd statements. Acts as an armor of ignorance.
Istaphobia:
Fear of being called an “ist” (racist, sexist, fascist, etc.), usually followed by self-censorship.
Jelly Journals:
Academic journals run by editors so spineless they retract papers, not for fraud or errors, but because outrage mobs tell them to do so.
KafkaTrap:
A rhetorical move where protesting your innocence is interpreted as proving your guilt. Example: If you deny that you are a racist, then that denial proves you are a racist.
Marxism Denialist:
Someone who conveniently ignores or forgets that Marxism has been a brutal disaster.
Narraphilia:
Infatuation with compelling narratives, combined with a reckless disregard for truth or evidence.
One-Eyed Watchdog:
Someone "concerned" about an issue (free speech, racism, political violence, etc.) but only speaks up when political opponents commit the transgression, while guilty allies are ignored or defended.
PeriphePlaint.
A rhetorical technique to discredit a major argument, by finding a flaw with a minor component of that argument, which would not refute the major argument.
Poe’s Dysphoria:
Inability to recognize the humor in parody. Failure to recognize a parody of one’s own side, but wild guffaws at parodies of the other side.
Problematicus Panoramicus:
A unique ability to paint anything as problematic, often including the ability to reference peer reviewed, or mainstream media articles, saying so.
Racebsion:
An excessive, persistent, and disturbing assumption that race is at the center of everything.
Reductio ad Hitlerum:
Treating ideas and arguments one opposes as reflecting Nazism, fascism, or white supremacy.
Righteous Outragophilia:
Obsession with proving your righteousness by expressing outrage at others for not subscribing to your subjective opinions.
Science-Pseudoscience Delusions:
Attacking any work they dislike or disagree with as “pseudoscience” or “fringe science,” ... and believing that label alone proves it is less valid than work they like or agree with.
Rigorus Mortus Selectivus:
Selective calls for scientific rigor -- denouncing work one opposes on scientific grounds, that are never applied to work one supports.
TrumpCession:
Academics and progressive activists obsessed with attributing bad events to Trump and his supporters.
Undo Process:
Reckless disregard for due process protections for those accused of demographic-related violations (e.g., harassment, bias, discrimination).
Unidentified Flying Errors:
Vague, unsubstantiated “errors” in work that one opposes or dislikes, such as "outrage mob" petitions calling to retract scientific papers that the mob simply opposes.
Victimhood Appropriation:
Embracing victimhood status, whether justified or not, to rhetorically seize moral superiority, and make your opponents shut up and go away.
VizziniMania:
Bragging about the supposed accuracy of one’s convictions, and insulting anyone who believes otherwise, while being outrageously mistaken.
WhackaDemia:
Nutcase ideas that emerge from academia.