The Cult of Niceness is a recent phenomenon mentioned in a write-up by Bruce Frohnen about how some people prioritize "niceness" over doing what is right, masking a very deceptive act of discrimination that pretends to care about everyone equally while in fact favoring certain people who are unethical to help them get away with murder over others who are ethical and deserving of good treatment.
The phenomenon does not take into account that if you are "nice" to the wrong person (e.g. a thief, a corrupt officer, or a bad manager) or at the wrong time (like after someone caused harm to others or damaged people's properties), you are actually not being nice to the good people who would negatively get impacted by being nice to a bad person at the wrong time. In other words, the "niceness" that the Cult of Niceness promotes is not even real niceness at all. It is only a corrupt shallow naive version of niceness that is not good at all and is only meant to excuse the evil actions of evil people.
Usually, there are benefactors indirectly benefiting from the Cult of Niceness, whether financially when people are not reprimanded for falling for certain addictions (e.g. porn) or immorally when normalizing and excusing certain immoral behaviors.
Members of the Cult of Niceness hypocritically do what they decry by yelling rudely and angrily at the person they perceive as "not nice" without being nice themselves, negating their credibility and becoming easily ignorable by everyone.
The phenomenon does not take into account that if you are "nice" to the wrong person (e.g. a thief, a corrupt officer, or a bad manager) or at the wrong time (like after someone caused harm to others or damaged people's properties), you are actually not being nice to the good people who would negatively get impacted by being nice to a bad person at the wrong time. In other words, the "niceness" that the Cult of Niceness promotes is not even real niceness at all. It is only a corrupt shallow naive version of niceness that is not good at all and is only meant to excuse the evil actions of evil people.
Usually, there are benefactors indirectly benefiting from the Cult of Niceness, whether financially when people are not reprimanded for falling for certain addictions (e.g. porn) or immorally when normalizing and excusing certain immoral behaviors.
Members of the Cult of Niceness hypocritically do what they decry by yelling rudely and angrily at the person they perceive as "not nice" without being nice themselves, negating their credibility and becoming easily ignorable by everyone.
In the 2010s, the Cult of Niceness became popular in online social media networks as mobs of unethical people would harass certain ethical people they deemed weak, unconnected-to-high-level-people, and worthy of being hated (while hypocritically claiming they were against hate). And, if the harassed people tried to defend themselves against the rude comments of the unethical people, they'd get suddenly called out for not being "nice" while the unethical rude harassers are let off the hook as "simply expressing themselves" and "not being hateful" despite their obvious hating on the ethical people they harassed.
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A home owner got robbed through breaking and entering, and when they found the thief leaving with their belongings, they yelled at the thief to drop everything they took, but then immediately, the Cult of Niceness police cut the home owner off and asked them to be "nice" by not yelling at the thief rudely, thus allowing the thief to escape.
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Someone on a mountain was running towards a cliff that they were not aware of, so another person loudly yelled at the runner to warn them they were going to fall off a cliff, but members of the Cult of Niceness immediately cut that person off before they finished their warning to inform them they were not being "nice" to the runner due to yelling rudely, which prevented the runner from hearing the warning that was about to save their life, and ended up falling off the cliff, benefiting benefactors of the Cult of Niceness.
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A home owner got robbed through breaking and entering, and when they found the thief leaving with their belongings, they yelled at the thief to drop everything they took, but then immediately, the Cult of Niceness police cut the home owner off and asked them to be "nice" by not yelling at the thief rudely, thus allowing the thief to escape.
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Someone on a mountain was running towards a cliff that they were not aware of, so another person loudly yelled at the runner to warn them they were going to fall off a cliff, but members of the Cult of Niceness immediately cut that person off before they finished their warning to inform them they were not being "nice" to the runner due to yelling rudely, which prevented the runner from hearing the warning that was about to save their life, and ended up falling off the cliff, benefiting benefactors of the Cult of Niceness.
by OffBeatDrummer May 15, 2023
Get the Cult of Nicenessmug. Kicked out, banned, taken out with the trash!
It's a term reappropriated from Computer Science, which reappropriated it from Garbage Collection Trucks.
It's a term reappropriated from Computer Science, which reappropriated it from Garbage Collection Trucks.
Steve: What happened to that office delivery dude that keeps delivering a Hawaiian Pizza every time we order Deep Dish Pizza?
Richmond: Garbage Collected! We had him escorted out of the office building yesterday and told him to never come back again!
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Monica: This girl keeps showing up to class drunk! The teacher finally had her garbage collected!
Samantha: And, what might that mean exactly!?! Did the teacher pick up the trash from around her seat at class or something?
Monica: No need. She was the trash!! He picked her up and took her out with the trash, telling her she was suspended from class for the entire semester!
Richmond: Garbage Collected! We had him escorted out of the office building yesterday and told him to never come back again!
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Monica: This girl keeps showing up to class drunk! The teacher finally had her garbage collected!
Samantha: And, what might that mean exactly!?! Did the teacher pick up the trash from around her seat at class or something?
Monica: No need. She was the trash!! He picked her up and took her out with the trash, telling her she was suspended from class for the entire semester!
by OffBeatDrummer November 24, 2020
Get the Garbage Collectedmug. A votidiot is someone who thinks that voting changes reality, and that if the majority votes for something that is not true or is wrong, it somehow becomes real or correct.
Votidiots tend to rely on voting out of laziness in using their brains; in other words due to being idiots. That is the source of the term "votidiot", made up from the two words: "vote" and "idiot".
Votidiots forget that many scientists voted for Newtonian physics being true in the past, and yet they all ended up proven wrong eventually. Their votes meant absolutely nothing in that regard. So, any new scientific ideas voted by votidiots today could get equally proven wrong tomorrow.
It is lost on votidiots that voting does not really apply to everything in life as it only facilitates choosing subjective things that do not affect reality or morals one way or another, and for which all choices are acceptable to everyone. Morals are no voting matter for example.
Votidiots tend to think they can settle everything with democracy, and it is lost on them that this simply results in the majority forcing their opinion on the minority, which is yet another form of dictatorship that is worse than blatant dictatorships since it is hard to pin down and argue against in a votidiot society, resulting in worse oppression to the minorities who lose the votes.
Anyone who votes down this definition is a votidiot.
Votidiots tend to rely on voting out of laziness in using their brains; in other words due to being idiots. That is the source of the term "votidiot", made up from the two words: "vote" and "idiot".
Votidiots forget that many scientists voted for Newtonian physics being true in the past, and yet they all ended up proven wrong eventually. Their votes meant absolutely nothing in that regard. So, any new scientific ideas voted by votidiots today could get equally proven wrong tomorrow.
It is lost on votidiots that voting does not really apply to everything in life as it only facilitates choosing subjective things that do not affect reality or morals one way or another, and for which all choices are acceptable to everyone. Morals are no voting matter for example.
Votidiots tend to think they can settle everything with democracy, and it is lost on them that this simply results in the majority forcing their opinion on the minority, which is yet another form of dictatorship that is worse than blatant dictatorships since it is hard to pin down and argue against in a votidiot society, resulting in worse oppression to the minorities who lose the votes.
Anyone who votes down this definition is a votidiot.
Peter: Real numbers tell us that people have a 99%+ recovery rate from Covid, so it is not really a dangerous disease.
Todd: Politicians already voted on the matter, declaring Covid an emergency, so it is now considered a dangerous disease regardless of reality.
Peter: They are Covidiots for believing Covid is a real threat. And, they are votidiots for thinking voting changes that reality!
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Ken: I heard that marijuana causes long-term laziness in a lot of people!
Lisa: It doesn't matter. They voted to legalize it, so it is 100% OK now.
Ken: Votidiots!
Lisa: True that! Marijuana is still terrible for you! Voting doesn't change that fact one bit.
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Suzan: Did you hear about this town's vote about allowing the robbing of the richest guy in town?
Doris: Yes, apparently this town's people are all poor except this one guy who recently moved there, and they are all so envious, so they are trying to legalize robbing him. Votidiots! Voting doesn't work that way! They will all end up in prison in no time over this.
Todd: Politicians already voted on the matter, declaring Covid an emergency, so it is now considered a dangerous disease regardless of reality.
Peter: They are Covidiots for believing Covid is a real threat. And, they are votidiots for thinking voting changes that reality!
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Ken: I heard that marijuana causes long-term laziness in a lot of people!
Lisa: It doesn't matter. They voted to legalize it, so it is 100% OK now.
Ken: Votidiots!
Lisa: True that! Marijuana is still terrible for you! Voting doesn't change that fact one bit.
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Suzan: Did you hear about this town's vote about allowing the robbing of the richest guy in town?
Doris: Yes, apparently this town's people are all poor except this one guy who recently moved there, and they are all so envious, so they are trying to legalize robbing him. Votidiots! Voting doesn't work that way! They will all end up in prison in no time over this.
by OffBeatDrummer April 20, 2023
Get the Votidiotmug. Tommy: you saw what idiot Beckham did on TV yesterday?
Johnny: yes, he's no soccer idol... a patheticon at best
Tommy: what about his ludicrous display last night?
Johnny: pathetic... totally pathetic!
Johnny: yes, he's no soccer idol... a patheticon at best
Tommy: what about his ludicrous display last night?
Johnny: pathetic... totally pathetic!
by OffBeatDrummer October 26, 2020
Get the Patheticonmug. This is just an abbreviation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's saying to Spike: "You're Beneath Me"
A beneather is simply someone who is beneath us.
A beneather is simply someone who is beneath us.
Derick: So, this recruiter calls me up out of nowhere and starts yapping his sales pitch without even saying hello or asking me how I'm doing.
Sarah: Doesn't sound like a good start.
Derick: Not at all. He then goes on and on about how great his company is. I couldn't get any word out before he started asking me interview questions afterwards. I mean, hello! I'm not even interested!
Sarah: This guy's got no manners whatsoever.
Derick: I know. A total beneather!
Sarah: Doesn't sound like a good start.
Derick: Not at all. He then goes on and on about how great his company is. I couldn't get any word out before he started asking me interview questions afterwards. I mean, hello! I'm not even interested!
Sarah: This guy's got no manners whatsoever.
Derick: I know. A total beneather!
by OffBeatDrummer November 02, 2020
Get the Beneathermug. A BIFI website run by faggots and populated by faggots and faggot wannabes, who think being a hacker is “cool”; not realizing that hackers are the lowest form of techy existence and are always lower than dirt.
Dade: Look at this Jonny! Hackers have shared code on Hacker News on how to program a butt plug!
Jonny: Wow! Let's get f*cked in the a$$! Hacking is f*cking COOL!!!
Jonny: Wow! Let's get f*cked in the a$$! Hacking is f*cking COOL!!!
by OffBeatDrummer May 07, 2022
Get the Hacker Newsmug. Tom: Check out this official marketing email I received from the CEO of Soaps R Us!
Stephen: It’s got lameoji written all over it. What is he like…5?!!
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Antoinette: What is up with Kevin from my math class?! He keeps sending me texts during class littered with lameojis. Grow up! We’re in high school for heaven’s sake!
Joan: You might want to block his number or just ask Darrin, the class computer whiz, to program a lameoji blocker for you!
Stephen: It’s got lameoji written all over it. What is he like…5?!!
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Antoinette: What is up with Kevin from my math class?! He keeps sending me texts during class littered with lameojis. Grow up! We’re in high school for heaven’s sake!
Joan: You might want to block his number or just ask Darrin, the class computer whiz, to program a lameoji blocker for you!
by OffBeatDrummer December 19, 2021
Get the Lameojimug.