A legal defense by rich kids and or adults who are guilty of a crime for which they committed and freely admit. The defence is that the offspring of wealthy, privileged parents who never set limits on their childrens behavior, are exempt from regular laws because natural law allows for special privilege and greater understanding for the rich and powerful in general. This argument comes from a branch of philosophy called circular logic. If the defense works it also means that instead of applying legal limits on rich people's behavior it legally exempts them and only them. This strengthens the defense in further legal problems should they occur again.
The affluenza defense works a lot better than a similar defense works for the offspring or poor, impoverished and suppressed parents, who don't have the resources to feed, cloth or house their kids properly, and because of time and resource constraints are unable keep tract or to set limits on their childrens behavior.
by mlhiss May 15, 2014
Get the affluenza mug.n. -the way that a person can wear a heinous piece of clothing, but only if it is from a popular brand, i.e. Free People. If said ugly piece of clothing is from a "lame" brand, i.e. Aéropostale the garment in question is instantly recognized as the abomination it truly is.
clothing snob: Wow that's an interesting shirt...
aeropostale fan: Oh thanks, it's from my fave store, Aeropostale.
clothing snob: Ewww people still shop there? That shirt is so ugly I just vurped.
aeropostale fan: Did I say Aeropostale? I mean Free People!
clothing snob: Oh really? I was just kidding. It's so cute! Can I borrow it?
bystander: Wow, talk about the Free People Affect...!
aeropostale fan: Oh thanks, it's from my fave store, Aeropostale.
clothing snob: Ewww people still shop there? That shirt is so ugly I just vurped.
aeropostale fan: Did I say Aeropostale? I mean Free People!
clothing snob: Oh really? I was just kidding. It's so cute! Can I borrow it?
bystander: Wow, talk about the Free People Affect...!
by Wicked Stepmom October 6, 2013
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just like any other affair, but with no boning. where you have mutual feelings for someone NOT your significant other but you never hook up.
John: we had a total emotional affair.
Grace: wtf?
John: I was emotionally cheating on Heather with you.
Grace: wtf?
John: I was emotionally cheating on Heather with you.
by sproink March 9, 2007
Get the emotional affair mug.In America, Affirmative Action was a product of the Great Society policies of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. It was first codified into law under a series of Executive Orders (not approved by Congress, in other words), which stated that munitions manufacturers including private firms doing business with the federal government should "take affirmative action" in hiring minorities - at the time defined almost solely as African Americans.
As the Vietnam War dragged on under President Richard Milhous Nixon, Affirmative Action became part of a wider government program to bribe inner city blacks to get with the program and support their government. Of course, Affirmative Action, welfare (started under FDR in the 1930s) and other government handouts did nothing to increase the love that black people had for the federal government.
By 1978 liberal activism was under attack. President Jimmy Carter had expanded Johnson's liberal social programs to their ultimate extreme, and white, middle class Americans began to look toward the Republican Party and their rising star, Ronald Reagan, for new political direction. That same year, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against quotas for the first time in the landmark California Board of Regents vs. Allan Bakke decision. However, Affirmative Action was far from dead and buried.
Today Affirmative Action remains rooted in American policy, although most Americans including many African-Americans find Affirmative Action outmoded for the much less racist atmosphere of the 21st Century.
Inexplicably Affirmative Action still exists, even after the election of Barack Obama.
As the Vietnam War dragged on under President Richard Milhous Nixon, Affirmative Action became part of a wider government program to bribe inner city blacks to get with the program and support their government. Of course, Affirmative Action, welfare (started under FDR in the 1930s) and other government handouts did nothing to increase the love that black people had for the federal government.
By 1978 liberal activism was under attack. President Jimmy Carter had expanded Johnson's liberal social programs to their ultimate extreme, and white, middle class Americans began to look toward the Republican Party and their rising star, Ronald Reagan, for new political direction. That same year, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against quotas for the first time in the landmark California Board of Regents vs. Allan Bakke decision. However, Affirmative Action was far from dead and buried.
Today Affirmative Action remains rooted in American policy, although most Americans including many African-Americans find Affirmative Action outmoded for the much less racist atmosphere of the 21st Century.
Inexplicably Affirmative Action still exists, even after the election of Barack Obama.
Affirmative Action put that white guy with a college degree in the unemployment line, while that black guy who can't even write his own name got the promotion.
Asians and Jews are also targets of racism, but they get none of the benefits of Affirmative Action. It's punishment for their success, I assume.
Jesse "Affirmative Action" Jackson got Nike to loan him $600 million dollars after threatening a boycott. What an extortionist piece of shit he is.
Asians and Jews are also targets of racism, but they get none of the benefits of Affirmative Action. It's punishment for their success, I assume.
Jesse "Affirmative Action" Jackson got Nike to loan him $600 million dollars after threatening a boycott. What an extortionist piece of shit he is.
by Assex 776 December 9, 2008
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Get the affa mug.A sardonic term for clinical psychologists who have, somewhere along the line, been made the arbiters of whether or not an expression of emotion is appropriate in any given situation.
I have a brilliant idea, let’s make some doctoral degreed wacka-wackas into the world’s foremost Inappropriate Affect Police!
by Dr Bunnygirl September 13, 2020
Get the Inappropriate Affect Police mug.Affluence trap is where successful couples and families have all the material trappings of wealth but are now committed to large regular payments and have to work extremely hard and are therefore "trapped" in their jobs.
John and Irene had worked hard to become successful but now found themselves with lots of commitments and in the "affluence trap"
by AffluentAndrew May 2, 2009
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