Future Taboo Words

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In the past few years, there's been a dramatic shift in which words are considered taboo among certain circles. Words based on sex and bodily functions have cooled significantly in terms of punch, but words that are, or can be seen as, racist, sexist,* or ableist have become hot button issues all across the Web.

I want to know which words you guys think'll experience a shift in taboo in the next few years. Personally, I think the word "thug" is probably next in line on the SJW chopping block, as well as words with similar connotations like "gangster, "banger," and "ghetto." It's indeed pretty unfair that black people are the ones who are mostly called those variants of words,** but when white people act that way, they're usually called "rednecks" or "hillbillies" or "white-trash" or "inbred."

*Towards women, homosexuals, and transexuals.

**Well, there are a good number of white and non-white Hispanics who are called those words, but people who don't like black people tend not to like Hispanics either; regardless of how white said Hispanics are. Some redneck retard'll probably call Ted Cruz a sugar-cane nigger during the 2016 election cycle, and he's whiter than Michael Jackson's kids.

 

[HG 400]

I think that by 2020 white males will be the truly persecuted minority in America as our rights get steadily taken away by feminist nazi SJWs who just want to persecute and friendzone us.

 

[Philosophy Zombie]

Mentally disabled or intellectually disabled or special needs or whatever people call tards now isn't going to be cool anymore because little kids already call each other "special IN THE BAD WAY" and "mental" on the playground. There is going to be a new word that will have at least two more syllables. This will happen within the next twenty years.

In fifty years "exceptional individual" will probably have come into popular medical use, then have worn itself out and become a slur. In other words, we said it before it was cool.

 

[AnOminous]

In fifty years "exceptional individual" will probably have come into popular medical use, then have worn itself out and become a slur. In other words, we said it before it was cool.

This already happened with all the previous words used for retards. Moron, idiot, imbecile, cretin all used to be "medical" terms referring to IQ falling in a specific range. Now they're just generalized insults.

 

[Philosophy Zombie]

This already happened with all the previous words used for retards. Moron, idiot, imbecile, cretin all used to be "medical" terms referring to IQ falling in a specific range. Now they're just generalized insults.

The campaign to "end the r-word" and other "ableist slurs" have always struck me as missing the point. None of the people who make these new euphemism treadmill words ever seem to reflect on why every new word they make eventually becomes a slur no matter how nice it sounds. If they don't want the slow kid to be made fun of, they should teach kids not to be dicks instead of trying to sugarcoat language.

 

[Trombonista]

I hope "feminist" doesn't become a taboo word.

 

[DuskEngine]

Historically, a lot of the words we currently use as insults used to refer to feudal peasants.

An idiot was an ancient Greek person who lacked a professional trade, a villain used to be an English farm hand, a churl was a freeman peasant, and a boor was a Dutch farmer. It'll be interesting to see if anything like that carries forward.

 

[Teddy]

Definitely thug. People in the media are already coming out and saying it's a code wode for the n word. Stupid, but whatever.

A few more:

Chick
Black
illegal aliens
Special needs
Islamic terrorist

 

[Abethedemon]

Candlejack
I don't see the point in thi-

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

penis

In the future it will be called only "root of all evil"

 

[DangerousGas]

I hope "feminist" doesn't become a taboo word.

I think this may have come a bit late. Some of the elements under the umbrella term 'third wave' have done a fine job of poisoning their own well.

 

[exball]

Communism.

 

[Abethedemon]

In all seriousness, loaded words like dictator and cult could become taboo.

 

[AnOminous]

In all seriousness, loaded words like dictator and cult could become taboo.

They already are to some extent, at least in terms of seeing them in mainstream media. Even the most blatant cult is usually described as something else, like a "new religious movement."

 

[Vitriol]

I noticed recently in some parts of the UK media 'immigrant' is being replaced with 'migrant'

 

[Linako 2.0]

Definitely thug. People in the media are already coming out and saying it's a code wode for the n word. Stupid, but whatever.

A few more:

Chick
Black
illegal aliens
Special needs
Islamic terrorist

Autist or Sperg
Normie
Loser
Troll
Chad
Privilege.

I think Vsauce had a cover on this.

 

[Anchuent Christory]

The term "Less abled" will replace "disabled"

 

[dabluearmedbandit]

It's weird to think that the word faggot is on par with nigger to some people.

 

[Megahertz]

I understand that some people still feel like 'oh, those darn sjws" with the decline in the use of the word "r/etard" (lol @ exceptional individual), but I used to be friends with somebody with Cerebral Palsy. One day she came up to me and told me that she would appreciate it if I stopped using "r/etard" around her (we were in middle school, it was thrown around like nothing then) because she felt ashamed that people would often use that word to describe her.

It sort of changed the way I thought of it forever, SJWisms be damned, and now I really see no reason to use it in place of words like idiot, asshole, etc. But I don't really care if I see other people use it, this is just a change in my vocab alone.

On topic, I can absolutely see "thug" becoming a nope word.

 

[Philosophy Zombie]

Communism.

Communism is already a slur, at least in the USA. It means "This person is more left-leaning than me, therefore the person is a godless commie pinko."

The term "Less abled" will replace "disabled"

Disability rights activists these days don't like hearing that they are "less" than able-bodied people in any way, even if it's just referring to the area in which they have a disability. e.g. "HOW DARE YOU SAY I AM LESS ABLED THAN YOU PHYSICALLY BECAUSE I USE A WHEELCHAIR!"