by PogChamperisPog May 14, 2021
A minimalist style of writing often used in short fiction. It usually features depressed middle class working people in bleak settings. The term "Kmart realism" was originally meant to be insulting. Authors include Tao Lin, Chris Killen, Joy Williams, Ann Beattie, Frederick Barthelme, and (to a lesser extent) Sam Pink.
"Sometimes when dolphins went to playgrounds alone they did the monkeybars and went to the swings and on the swings thought, "I hate this stupid world."
They thought, "I hate it."
They cried a little with the wind against their face.
They felt so bad that they went away.
And found Elijah Wood and told Elijah Wood to go with them and Elijah Wood went--because he thought it was a movie. Elijah Wood and other celebrities like Salman Rushdie rode dolphins in rivers. Salman Rushdie felt proud and famous. And the dolphins swam to islands and beat Elijah Wood and the other famous people with heavy branches. They cried when they murdered human beings, and it was terrible.
One dolphin had a battle axe and killed Wong Kar-Wai."
Tao Lin, a writer of "Kmart realism".
They thought, "I hate it."
They cried a little with the wind against their face.
They felt so bad that they went away.
And found Elijah Wood and told Elijah Wood to go with them and Elijah Wood went--because he thought it was a movie. Elijah Wood and other celebrities like Salman Rushdie rode dolphins in rivers. Salman Rushdie felt proud and famous. And the dolphins swam to islands and beat Elijah Wood and the other famous people with heavy branches. They cried when they murdered human beings, and it was terrible.
One dolphin had a battle axe and killed Wong Kar-Wai."
Tao Lin, a writer of "Kmart realism".
by electric organism September 30, 2009
I loved that Ur-realism art show, especially the images of Tiajuana bars with hookers standing outside.
by monkiki July 18, 2006
The belief that different groups of people who had been geographically separated in their evolution couldn't have developed the exact same physical and mental traits.
by Some Romanian Guy January 14, 2017
1) A group of individuals who believe in the Force.
2) A group of individuals seeking spiritual and personal development in an effort to affect the world around them in positive ways.
3) A group of diverse individuals believing Jedi Realism as either a way of life, philosophy or religion.
4) Beliefs springing from the ideas spun by Joseph Campbell, with George Lucas' terminology
2) A group of individuals seeking spiritual and personal development in an effort to affect the world around them in positive ways.
3) A group of diverse individuals believing Jedi Realism as either a way of life, philosophy or religion.
4) Beliefs springing from the ideas spun by Joseph Campbell, with George Lucas' terminology
Temple of the Jedi Order
Temple of the Jedi Force
Force Academy
Jedi Sanctuary
Institute for Jedi Realists Studies
Order of the New Dawn
Jedi Resource Center
Jedi Realism
Temple of the Jedi Force
Force Academy
Jedi Sanctuary
Institute for Jedi Realists Studies
Order of the New Dawn
Jedi Resource Center
Jedi Realism
by RanSpirits November 7, 2009
A term used by idiots to justify racial generalizations against nonwhites by using out-of-context statistics and pseudoscientific studies. The overwhelming consensus among evolutionary scientists is that zero evidence exists of inherent behavioral, intellectual, or anatomical differences between races. But don't tell that to the idiot race realist; it will hurt his ego and his false sense of superiority.
For example, blacks disproportionately commit violent crime, mostly against other blacks. The real reason for this is that blacks were disproportionately segregated into poverty-stricken ghettos, into which the American government funneled disproportionate amounts of firearms and addictive drugs in order to create unrest within those communities.
You will never hear this context explained by the idiot race realist, because he desperately wants to believe that blacks are inherently criminalistic in order to boost his own fragile ego.
The idiot race realist will condescendingly preach about using facts instead of feelings, but as soon as you present facts that reflect negatively on white males, such as serial killers and domestic terrorists being disproportionately white males, he will hypocritically reject those facts purely on the basis of his own hurt feelings.
You will never hear the idiot race realist make broad, negative generalizations about white males like he does males of other races. Because race realism is all based on hypocrisy and dishonesty.
For example, blacks disproportionately commit violent crime, mostly against other blacks. The real reason for this is that blacks were disproportionately segregated into poverty-stricken ghettos, into which the American government funneled disproportionate amounts of firearms and addictive drugs in order to create unrest within those communities.
You will never hear this context explained by the idiot race realist, because he desperately wants to believe that blacks are inherently criminalistic in order to boost his own fragile ego.
The idiot race realist will condescendingly preach about using facts instead of feelings, but as soon as you present facts that reflect negatively on white males, such as serial killers and domestic terrorists being disproportionately white males, he will hypocritically reject those facts purely on the basis of his own hurt feelings.
You will never hear the idiot race realist make broad, negative generalizations about white males like he does males of other races. Because race realism is all based on hypocrisy and dishonesty.
Idiot: The robber HAD to be black! The terrorist HAD to be brown! Race realism! I'm not racist, it's just muh statistics!
Logical person: Statistically, most serial killers are white men, most mass shooters are white men, and most domestic terrorists are white men. So the killer HAD to be white, right? The school shooter HAD to be white? Right?
Idiot: HOW DARE YOU GENERALIZE WHITE MALES YOU REVERSE RACIST SJW blah blah blah...
Logical person: Aaaaand you're a hypocrite.
Logical person: Statistically, most serial killers are white men, most mass shooters are white men, and most domestic terrorists are white men. So the killer HAD to be white, right? The school shooter HAD to be white? Right?
Idiot: HOW DARE YOU GENERALIZE WHITE MALES YOU REVERSE RACIST SJW blah blah blah...
Logical person: Aaaaand you're a hypocrite.
by Donald Scum September 8, 2018
According to wikipedia: the term anti-realism is used to describe any position involving either the denial of an objective reality of entities of a certain type or the denial that verification-transcendent statements about a type of entity are either true or false.
Therefore, it is a silly term that means nothing.
Therefore, it is a silly term that means nothing.
"Do you believe in anti-realism?"
"Yes, I deny that verification-transcendent statements about a type of entity are either true or false."
"What?"
"Yes, I deny that verification-transcendent statements about a type of entity are either true or false."
"What?"
by Andrey Biggins May 19, 2009