suicide scare

What someone feels when their suicidal/depressed friend sends them a message like ‘sorry’ or ‘I love you’ really late at night and they panic

Person 1: “I love you”
Person 2: “OH SHIF NONONONO DONT KYS PLEASE PLEASE IM HAVING A SUICIDE SCARE”

by RexTheHamsterYT February 26, 2024

Blue scare

Being afraid the “boys in blue” will corrupt your city and kill you for your race, gender, sexuality, etc

man 5O pulled up i got the blue scare i thought my ass was finna die cuh.

by 𝓨𝓸𝓶𝓪𝓶𝓪𝓱𝓸𝓮 April 18, 2024

Blue Scare

a fear in which you have of poilice because they ain shii lowkey and could kill you for anything

i saw 5o nd got the blue scare nigga

by 𝓨𝓸𝓶𝓪𝓶𝓪𝓱𝓸𝓮 April 18, 2024

Jump scare

an image you see that is so ugly or gruesome it scares you, makes your heart stop for a second.

“ did you see that picture Jen posted yesterday? “
“ yeah & she thinks that looked good?! instant jump scare “

by DrDaniiiPhantom May 18, 2024

Pseudoscience Scaremongering

The strategic use of exaggerated threats about pseudoscience to justify censorship, exclusion, intellectual orthodoxy, and the suppression of dissent. Pseudoscience scaremongering treats every unconventional claim as a threat to civilization, every alternative approach as the edge of a slippery slope to barbarism, every deviation from consensus as the first step toward the end of reason. It's the op-ed warning that homeopathy will destroy medicine; the campaign claiming that questioning climate models is equivalent to climate denial; the rhetoric that treats any skepticism of scientific orthodoxy as an attack on science itself. The scaremongering serves power, not truth—it protects established institutions from challenge by painting all challenge as existential threat, making critique itself seem dangerous.

Example: "He claimed that teaching students to question scientific consensus would destroy Western civilization—not argument, but Pseudoscience Scaremongering, using exaggerated threat to shut down inquiry rather than engage it."

by Dumu The Void March 14, 2026

Postmodernism Scaremongering

The strategic use of exaggerated threats about postmodernism to justify intellectual orthodoxy, dismiss critique, and shut down legitimate inquiry. Postmodernism scaremongering treats any questioning of grand narratives, any attention to language and power, any skepticism about universal truth claims as the first step toward nihilism, barbarism, and the destruction of civilization itself. It's the op-ed warning that teaching Derrida will lead to fascism; the pundit who blames every social ill on "postmodern relativism"; the academic who uses "postmodernism" as a slur to dismiss any approach they don't like without engaging its actual arguments. The scaremongering serves power by making critique itself seem dangerous—painting those who question foundations as enemies of reason, when they might just be asking reasonable questions about whose reason counts.

Example: "He blamed postmodernism for everything from political polarization to declining test scores—never defining what he meant, just using it as a bogeyman. Pure Postmodernism Scaremongering: fighting shadows instead of arguments."

by Dumu The Void March 14, 2026

Relativism Scaremongering

The strategic use of exaggerated threats about relativism to justify absolute claims, dismiss alternative perspectives, and shut down questions about whose truth counts. Relativism scaremongering treats any suggestion that truth might be contextual, any acknowledgment that different cultures have different ways of knowing, any skepticism about universal standards as the first step toward moral chaos, political collapse, and the end of civilization. It's the pundit who warns that acknowledging cultural differences leads to approving genocide; the philosopher who treats any contextualism as a slippery slope to nihilism; the polemicist who uses "relativist" as a slur to dismiss anyone who questions their absolutes. The scaremongering makes critique unthinkable by making it seem monstrous—painting those who ask "whose truth?" as enemies of truth itself.

Example: "She suggested that maybe different cultures have different valid ways of knowing—and he accused her of endorsing Holocaust denial. Relativism Scaremongering: using the worst possible outcome to dismiss any nuance at all."

by Dumu The Void March 14, 2026