Is this the word people are using these days to explain away things they don't like without actually mounting an argument against them? I'm curious what those who use it have to say.
Is this the word people are using these days to explain away things they don't like without actually mounting an argument against them? I'm curious what those who use it have to say.
More or less. The term is nice and vague so that it can be used to attack things which make you uncomfortable without you examining that discomfort or looking for solutions. It's very similar to toxic. These terms are the on the opposite end of the spectrum that terms like "synergy", "quantum leap" and "paradigm shift" are on. If you need negative nonsense words or positive nonsense words, you know you're just spitting nonsense.
I'm sorry, what's the politically correct word they should be using instead?
It reminds of the word "impact" which has become misused as a replacement for "affect".
Well if "such and such" was indeed transphobic and since we can agree that transphobia frowned upon, it follows that what the person said is "problematic". I dont see a problem with the words use, as context was provided. Quite often Ive seen context not being provided, especially in social media conversations, twitter being the most prominent platform.
Now wether that person themself is "problematic" because of one thing they said is something else. It sounds suspiciously easy to frame a conversation around them being transphobic and to exclude them from the discussion.
The irony is that "problematic" is a term the left wing specifically developed as a soft word for things people say that they don't want to call "racist" because that would be over the top, but they still need to tell people why they shouldn't use them. Like, I dunno, your grandma calling Asians "Orientals" because she doesn't know better or something. It's supposed to be a way to reason with people instead of starting a confrontation and making people defensive.
But the shitlords act like someone threw holy water on a vampire when it comes out, so I guess there's no term gentle enough not to offend some people.
I use it to describe things that are problematic, like my zipper.
"In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." Paradox of tolerance
It's a term that opens room to reflect on whatever statement it's attached. It's a more civil way to express something than to bluntly say it in a very direct way.
That was based on some informal website survey, if I recall. I actually work with teens (I'm a teacher) and the vast majority are pretty even keel on social issues. I even work in a fairly rural area, and the integration is pretty seamless between the various different groups.
It was the buzzword of 2016, I don't hear it so often any more.
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I've never seen this be used in any meaningful way outside of... Tumblr.
"That's a problem" does the same thing.
My shoe has a hole in it and that's a problem.
My shoe has a hole in it and that's problematic.
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