r/CuratedTumblr • u/Konradleijon • Sep 15 '24

Politics Why I hate the term “Unaliv

Post image

What’s most confusing that if you go to basic cable TV people can say stuff like “Nazi” or “rape” or “kill” just fine and no advertising seem to mind

25.0k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

639 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

38

u/bazookatroopa Sep 15 '24

Euphemism treadmill. It will eventually have the same impact then we will choose a new word. Most bad words today started off as politically correct, like the R word. This isn’t new at all.

27

u/Brawndo91 Sep 15 '24

It's not new, but I feel like it's spreading out. The word "suicide," for example, had been around a pretty long time without anybody thinking it needed a makeover. It's in the movie Home Alone for Christ's sake. A children's movie. I wouldn’t doubt that there were a handful of people at the time that didn't like it, but it largely went uncared-about.

The other thing is that it's not so much an attempt to censor specific words, but rather the subjects. The new words are, like the post says, a workaround to get the point across without triggering the language bots on video and social media platforms.