What's it called when you reduce everything to ideological figures to avoid dealing with complexity?
Like 'chad', 'stacy', 'normies', 'sjw', 'the Jews', 'white male', 'cuck', etc?
What's it called when you reduce everything to ideological figures to avoid dealing with complexity?
Like 'chad', 'stacy', 'normies', 'sjw', 'the Jews', 'white male', 'cuck', etc?
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Synecdoche?
Strawman
Laziness
Ironically, calling everything a meme to avoid dealing with complexity is now also a meme.
Euphemism.
Sorry, I meant dysphemism.
stereotyping
categorising
I second this.
It's called identity politics
Pol and tumblr are masters at it
Reductionism
Lack of education.
the term you are looking for is "trope"
chad is a trope, the social justice warrior is a trope, etc
Language
You hit upon the word yourself.
It's called reductionism and it's often depressingly accurate.
>tips liberal arts degree
autism
>and it's often depressingly accurate
Meatwad make the money, see
Meatwad get the honeys, G
Drivin in my car, livin like a star
Ice on my fingers and my toes and I'm a Taurus
Uhhhgnn
Check check it
Yeah
Newspeak
This
Heuristics
also tiny bit of
t. a linguist
trope is an intentional stylistic figure.
narrowing down a case to a set of some trope's functions is a reduction.
Spooks
Jamesonism
Veeky Forums
Reducio ad absurdum
The point is to make something an object of fun and derision so you don't have to seriously think about it
"Complex" is used in such an ideological way these days.
It's done in a more subtle way than "Populism" which is just a bs term
It's being being facile, i.e. showing a superficial understanding, ignoring the complexities of a matter.
How so? sorry if this is a stupid question.
Trump being the candidate? It's just memes politics.
A bad but popular book? It's such a meme book.
Men of r9k being misogynistic? They fell for the meme, lol.
We're one step away from calling Hitler's antisemitism just one ol' big meme. The jew meme.
Meme meme meme