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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was more confused about “a neet” tbh. Looked it up on Urban Dictionary and wow. LOTS of ableism and reinforcement of toxic Calvinism 😬

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  • spookex@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What? UD does get sidetracked a bit l, but NEET is actually an acronym for “Not in Education, Employment, or Training” and it is not just some made-up internet term.

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    • Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      NEET is 100% a made-up internet term.

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      • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It was part of the curriculum in my Geography lessons in primary school 15 years ago, in a non-English speaking country, even though it’s an English acronym.

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      • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        NEET is an acronym meaning “not in employment, education, or training,” first used by researchers in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.)

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        every term ever used is a made up term my fellow internet user

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, with big derogative connotations from most of the ones using the term. Basically another way to say “bum”, which is explicitly spelled out in some of the other UD entries.

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      • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        urban dictionary derogatory connotations I never would have thought

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      • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Neet has a “failure a launch” implication - a NEET has a home, a bum might be crashing on a couch

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  • RustyShackleford@literature.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Damn. I must be getting old, I didn’t understand half the internet slang used in this topic.

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    • Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s a fucking ism for everything now. We used to just say it was someone being an asshole.

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      • Leg@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Men of science like to categories the different types of asshole.

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  • Soulg@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Neet is just an acronym and it comes from japan

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    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re thinking of hikikomori, the pathological, taken to 11 version of NEET.

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      • Soulg@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m not, I know that’s a different thing, but I could also just be wrong about neet coming from japan

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah… Third is one of the least toxic definitions…

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      • Elgenzay@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        UrbanDictionary is generally offensive in all their definitions, but even so, you skipped past the first definition with 19x as many upvotes (at 16% downvotes) to show the one with 67% downvotes

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