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Evidence Discrimination

The institutional and interpersonal application of Evidence Prejudice, where individuals or groups are denied opportunities, accommodations, or respect because their knowledge systems do not produce evidence in the form demanded by dominant institutions. Evidence discrimination can be seen in academia, where oral traditions are excluded from “scholarly” status; in medicine, where traditional healing is dismissed as “unproven” despite generations of observed efficacy; and in law, where cultural practices are disallowed because they cannot be documented in Western formats. It uses “evidence” as a gatekeeping mechanism to preserve epistemic hierarchy.
Example: “The court refused to consider Indigenous oral histories as evidence of land stewardship, demanding written deeds instead—evidence discrimination, imposing one culture’s evidentiary rules to erase another’s history.”
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Evidence-Based Discrimination

A subset of scientific discrimination that specifically invokes “evidence” as the justification for prejudicial treatment. It claims that because a belief or practice lacks scientific evidence, those who hold it deserve exclusion, mockery, or even legal restriction. Evidence‑based discrimination often appears in policy debates (e.g., denying religious exemptions for vaccines), educational settings (e.g., banning indigenous knowledge from curricula), and online harassment (e.g., coordinated attacks on “pseudoscience” communities). The appeal to evidence masks underlying bias against worldviews that do not conform to materialist orthodoxy.
Evidence-Based Discrimination Example: “The university refused to allow indigenous elder teachings in the anthropology department, citing ‘lack of evidence’—Evidence‑Based Discrimination, using evidential standards to exclude non‑Western knowledge systems.”

Breadhead 

Someone who is addicted to obtaining money and building wealth. A money addict and fanatic. Breadheads often work more than one full-time job, and some even participate in illicit activities to "obtain the bread".
A breadhead is like a crackhead, but for money instead of crack.
Breadhead by 🅱️ U S 3 4 8 March 30, 2022

Stink lines

As seen in illustrations or cartoons: Wavy, vertical lines rising above a person, place or thing. Denotes a foul odor.
"You didn't put enough stink lines on your picture of the teacher."
Stink lines by Athene Airheart March 14, 2004

schmegegge 

Yiddish slang word meaning bullshit, baloney, hogwash, nonsense, crock of shit or hot air.
I don't buy the schmegegge about Morty sleeping with Moira.
His version of the story was pure schmegegge.
The whole schmegegge was made up to get Liz a little bit of attention.
schmegegge by budsbabe February 1, 2008

eye bleach 

Looking or experiencing something nice after witnessing something horrid like a disgusting gif or a disturbing video. Typically used as eye bleach are nice images of whatever makes the disturbed person happy.
"Bleach my eyes! Why is that woman's face ripped off!?"
*Looks up images of puppies and kittens.*
"That's good eye bleach."
eye bleach by Rini2012 November 29, 2016
Noun. Portmanteau of "street" and "road": it describes a street, er, road, built for high speed, but with multiple access points. Excessive width is a common feature. A common feature in suburbia, especially along commercial strips. Unsafe at any speed, their extreme width and straightness paradoxically induces speeding. Somewhat more neutral than synonymous traffic sewer.
Did you see what the traffic engineers want to do to our street? They're going to turn it into a total stroad!
Stroad by hammersklavier February 21, 2012