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Kneejerk
When a person responds or reacts due to past experiences or trauma without being mindful of the consequences of said response.
Kneejerk by Bevrlykillz January 2, 2020
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Kneejerk Corruptions, Incorrigible
The second-leading source of antitrust, right on the heals of MyCrudSoft sWindles. Frequently euphemized as Network Solutions, Incorporated.
In 1999 and 2000 Kneejerk Corruptions, Incorrigible held my domain name for ransom for seven months while I tried to transfer it to a different registrar, until I got the Better Business Bureau on their case.
Kneejerk Corruptions, Incorrigible by Downstrike September 13, 2004
Kneejerk Feminist
Someone who complains about lack of female representation immediately upon such a thought crossing their mind, often without an argument (let alone a logical and meritocratically-backed one) for, and sometimes even without examples of, women that should be included.
"Congratulations to Mark, Aidan, Zachary and Flynn of our university's programming team who won the gold medal at the national hackathon!"
Kneejerk feminist on social media: "wHy nO wOmEn?!?!?1?"
Everyone in the replies: "Do u want us to have lost or what. No woman even came close to making the team. Highest female scorer on the team selection test couldn't even manage half the points of the worst man on the team lmao"
Kneejerk feminist: "IMPOSSIBLE!! Selection test RIGGED!!!!1!"
Kneejerk feminist on social media: "wHy nO wOmEn?!?!?1?"
Everyone in the replies: "Do u want us to have lost or what. No woman even came close to making the team. Highest female scorer on the team selection test couldn't even manage half the points of the worst man on the team lmao"
Kneejerk feminist: "IMPOSSIBLE!! Selection test RIGGED!!!!1!"
Kneejerk Feminist by AL1QU0T October 10, 2024
knee jerk Bush hatred
LN3: "between Iraq, the inability to catch Osama Bin Laden, the current economic meltdown, our foreign relations with what were previously friendly nations accross the globe I'd say that George Bush was a horrible leader and president."
AudiDefector: "that's nothing but knee jerk Bush hatred based on no facts, why do you hate freedom ?"
AudiDefector: "that's nothing but knee jerk Bush hatred based on no facts, why do you hate freedom ?"
knee jerk Bush hatred by LN3 March 10, 2009
knee-jerk
A spontaneous, thoughless, predictable and stereotypical reaction to something, usually an opinion or a statement.
An entire culture of American neo-conservatives has seemed to build itself on a type of knee-jerk reaction to any kind of criticism of the Bush Administration or the loyal element of the Republican Party, even from fellow conservatives -- the kind of pseudo-patriotism discouraged by Theodore Roosevelt.