Kill Word

(Noun): A dehumanizing word or phrase broadcasted, repeated, and memed into the public sphere with the goal of fomenting the genocide of a particular group.

Kill words are a more defined subsection of a wider/vaguer hate speech category.

In the 1994 Rawanda genocide, Propogandists broadcasted kill words "Cockroaches" or "Cut down the tall trees" to the Hutu majority to genocide the Tutsi minority.

Before WW2 , the nazis spread kill words like "Rats" or "Liquidation" in their Holocaust of the jews.

In 2023 Dilbert creator, Scott Adams, predicted that phrases like "Colonizer" or "MAGAts"(Maggots) will become active kill words.

Kill Word by Bigchungus6969 October 17, 2023

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Covert Intent Word

One or more words which state something other than—or the opposite of—what the words which do not have a covert ulterior motive in the message express.

One example of a Covert Intent Word is, “The Test Administrators will do their best to make your testing experience as smooth and stress free as possible.” The word “stress” reminds the test takers that there is such a thing as "stress." And makes anyone who is exposed to that word feel some level of stress—if only by remembering what stress is to grasp what the writer is saying.

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Covert Intent Word

One or more words which state something other than—or the opposite of—what the words which have no covert ulterior motive express in a message.

One example of a Covert Intent Word is, “The Test Administrators will do their best to make your testing experience as smooth and stress free as possible.” The word “stress” reminds the test takers that there is such a thing as "stress." And makes anyone who is exposed to that word feel some level of stress—if only by remembering what stress is to grasp what the writer is saying.

Covert Intent Word by but for October 18, 2017