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Civility 

After months of someone calling you and your race rapist and murderers and outright treating them like garbage, they ask that you don't kick them from your restaurant. #Trump
Regular person: please leave my restaurant, we don't want to scare our customers.
KKK: hey man show some civility (the snowflake melts)

KKK: hey we can ALL get along as long as you know your place. Be civil.
Civility by bonafideslave June 27, 2018

Civility Deficit 

A social phenomenon in the early 21st century where human beings regularly dehumanize each other due to algorithmic feeds, the internet, and other environmental shifts that haven't allowed their genes to catch up.
Hey, have you noticed that everyone seems to have a short fuse lately? Ya, it's due to the Civility Deficit! We need to work on this.

road civility 

polite or civil behaviour shown by drivers to other drivers, passengers, passers-by and traffic police. also called road politeness and road manners.
The driver has a bonanza of road civility; he never gets into road rage.
road civility by uttam maharjan February 7, 2010

obligated civility

feeling like you have to behave civilised and orderly
The Conch was gone, and so was the power and obligated civility that once came with it.
obligated civility by L0uL0uK January 14, 2021

Civilitocracy 

Civilitocracy is the use of military style in a democratic system of governance.

The use of military language in civilian governments.

Authoritarianism by civilian governments.
Olusegen Obasanjo is running a civilitocracy.

Tinubu is a civilotocrat. He removed an elected state governor, replacing him with a military administrator.
Civilitocracy by Udeme Nana May 2, 2025
The striver is an interesting phenomenon that is seen across college campuses. In essence, the striver is an over-achiever who comes from a working or middle class family. He may be an immigrant. He may have been a slacker in HS who was "born again" into an academic wunderkind. Or he may just be an over-achiever who is keeping at it.

The striver is willing to sacrifice his social life at the expense of Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude. The striver is the guy who stays at the library long after you are gone. The striver is the guy who takes 30 credits/semester and considers anything below an A/4.0 failure. The striver doesn't work on campus, he is too busy finding ways to pad his resume instead of working retail or workstudy. The striver lets his grades pay his education by applying to ten scholarships a year.

The striver is a future Soros/Fullbright/Rhodes/Gates/Marshall/etc. fellow. The striver lives to study. For the striver, their fun comes from the rewards they expect to receive in return for their diligence. Be it Law School, B-School, academia, or politics. The striver seeks to find the American Dream through academic success.
Anthony was a striver. He transfered from a TTT to an IVY and graduated in 2 years. He studied his ass off and went to Penn Law. He got a Biglaw offer. But lost it all because of an unmoderated mesasgeboard.

Successful strivers:
- Barack Obama
- Harold Koh
Striver by URM Striver January 3, 2009
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