Modern jargon in real life!

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The words below all have dictionary, theoretical definitions, but these are the definitions as actually used in real-life speech:

Gaslighting, gerund or present participle: Disagreement with a white woman who has a bachelor's degree or higher
Mansplaining, gerund or present participle: Explaining anything to a white woman who has a bachelor's degree or higher

Triggering, gerund or present participle: Saying something a white woman white a bachelor's degree or higher wishes you not to say

Lived experience, noun: An anecdote, quite likely fictional, which the speaker believes overrides all social or natural scientific evidence

Epistemic injustice, noun: Following the correct rules of reasoning about evidence rather than flat out agreeing with a biased ideologue with strong opinions

Anti-racism, noun: racism

DEI officer, noun: An anti-racist bureaucrat whose job and resources depending on fomenting as much anti-racism as possible on campus. (Etymology: Latin, deus, either signal genitive ("of God") or plural nominative ("gods") case.)

Feminism, noun: The belief that the mean and median woman should have the same status, power, resources, and success as men on the far right-hand side of the curve.

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