A person entering a, usually controversial, discussion with the most surface-level, stereotype-based, and hyperbolic arguments possible. Their take then becomes the easy go-to meme response that spreads, resulting in a form of Flanderization for the discussion as a whole, cutting any nuance or complexity to the discourse and adding undeserved importance to it.
Some of the more prevalent examples of this are in discussions of Fermi's paradox, where the go to is, "Aliens don't talk to us because we're stupid," despite how much it's implying about the aliens in question. And arguments about America not using the metric system, with the reason often being, "Americans are too stupid and lazy to understand it," forcing a stereotype and ignoring any actual reasons the US hasn't switched over.
Since these arguments are often done for quick validation, they often have little to no research backing them either due to overconfidence of being right, or an unconscious fear of having to think complexly.
Some of the more prevalent examples of this are in discussions of Fermi's paradox, where the go to is, "Aliens don't talk to us because we're stupid," despite how much it's implying about the aliens in question. And arguments about America not using the metric system, with the reason often being, "Americans are too stupid and lazy to understand it," forcing a stereotype and ignoring any actual reasons the US hasn't switched over.
Since these arguments are often done for quick validation, they often have little to no research backing them either due to overconfidence of being right, or an unconscious fear of having to think complexly.
commenter 1: omfg why don't Americans just switch to metric already, why are they too dumb to do government.
commenter 2: You could leave and google how states' rights work, fucking discussion pollution.
commenter 2: You could leave and google how states' rights work, fucking discussion pollution.
by dirtwashere April 9, 2023
Get the Discussion Pollutionmug. When someone talks very rapidly about things you have little understanding, it's like the sound of an unwanted radio playing music that doesn't appeal to you.
by HookBeak66 September 15, 2022
Get the audio pollutionmug. Decaying physical or mental state of an individual. Also signifies decline in previously able function E.g sharpness, humour
Bilbo Baggins was polluted at the end of Lord of the Rings. His body and mind was off the scales polluted and he needed to get on that boat.
by Pollutedman August 19, 2024
Get the Pollutedmug. by salty___dalty January 26, 2018
Get the Pain Pollutemug. The result of humans, or stupid apes that don't give a fu**. The thing that is irreversible in 10 years (from 2022) and will kill us before any other thing that a common idiot fears. In more detail it's unwanted gasses in the atmosphere that traps sunlight in our atmosphere causing the world to heat up, ice burns to melt, and then oceans rising. Fun isn't it?
by A coool persone April 20, 2022
Get the Pollutionmug. Bullshit people put out into the world that is not good or relevant to the success of our species and/or environment.
Karen told me to act less gay because she thought I was on drugs after her 5th bottle of wine. Her farts were polluting the garden and it stank. This is an example of pollution
by Maskcultisme April 23, 2021
Get the Pollutionmug. Noun. A distracting and excessive cloud of feelings that surrounds a complainer and overcasts an event. May include complaints drenched in anger or grief, but not a physical solution. Used to push others away with its feckless toxicity.
--He could have done his homework, but instead just spent an hour complaining about it. The air was so thick with emotional pollution, I just had to get out of there.
--I think she had a problem with my attitude, but I couldn't care less. She just babbled emotional pollution of "blah blah blah." Some people live to perfect their outrage.
--I think she had a problem with my attitude, but I couldn't care less. She just babbled emotional pollution of "blah blah blah." Some people live to perfect their outrage.
by UGiveUp2 November 11, 2017
Get the emotional pollutionmug.