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Affirmative Action

An action that forgets that Asian are also a minority. Makes it harder for them to get into a good college, jobs, better life, etc.
Asian: Because of Affirmative Action, I have to get a 1550 on SAT and 4.9 GPA to get into a UC school.
by anonymous August 7, 2022
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PDA (Pathetic Displays of Affection)

To those who thought there couldn't be worse than that couple slobbering noisily all over each other centimetres from your own face at rush hour on the tube (Public Displays of Affection) - think again.

There's always Pathetic Displays of Affection. These usually occur when one or both parties is irretrievably inebriated. Sometimes followed by convenient memory loss the morning after the night before and/or heavy regret and shame felt by one or both parties.

Almost without fail intoxication-related, Pathetic Displays of Affection can be physical or virtual - in which case, thanks to the miracle of modern technology, they can take the various but inevitably excruciating forms of drunken dialling, texting or even, more permanently so, emailing and instant messaging.
Pedro, spare us all the PDA (Pathetic Displays of Affection) and the ensuing wingeing phone call to me about how mortified you are. There is no world in which it's a good idea to tell this Madeleine girl you just met at the bar that you want to marry her and impregnate her shortly afterwards. Even if she IS a hot blonde blue-eyed Swede.
by princessetamtam April 29, 2009
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affordabling

Something cheap that gives the impression of a luxury item. Plastic spinner hubcaps, Fake designer watches, Chrome plastic jewelry, Etc..

Coined by Josh Delpierre on 05/01/08
When referring to a car with plastic spinner hub caps:

"Damn! Check out the affordabling on that ride! "
by Josh Delpierre May 1, 2008
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Violent Affection

Emotional Abuse towards lovers, family and friends designed to control and subjugate another human being through the use of fear, humiliation, devaluation, dominating, invalidation, intimidation, guilt, coercion, manipulation and neglect, etc.

It can include anything from verbal abuse and constant criticism to more subtle tactics, such as repeated disapproval or even the refusal to ever be pleased.
His violent affection towards his girlfriends and children eventually alienated him from everyone and he died a lonely man.
by OS11 September 13, 2011
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The Free People Affect

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...!
by Wicked Stepmom October 6, 2013
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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

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.
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.
by Assex 776 December 9, 2008
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Inappropriate Affect Police

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
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