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The previous US president used the word "disgust" frequently in tirades. This seemed to resonate with his supporters. I must live in a bubble. I don't experien
by Syzygies 6y ago
The previous US president used the word "disgust" frequently in tirades. This seemed to resonate with his supporters.
I must live in a bubble. I don't experience the emotion of disgust. I don't know people who experience the emotion of disgust. I'm honestly not sure how one defines the word, and I get the impression that many people who use the word don't really understand it either.
On the other hand there may be some "in the womb" biological tendency toward caution, aversion to change, that correlates with Republican affiliation. Experiencing disgust may just be one of those things, like how some people taste bitter as intolerable.
- stinos 6y agoI don't experience the emotion of disgust. I don't know people who experience the emotion of disgust. I'd describe the feeling I get when seeing my cat puke out a meal, followed by her starting to eat that slimy bloody pudding again, as disgust. Just to name an example. Have you really never experienced that? Lucky you I'd say :) Apart from that, i.e. the very literal sense ('dis' is like a negative, 'gust' is taste), disgust also gets used in the sense of morally disliking something profoundly. Again not that uncommon. But I get your point: these days it seems to get used often when it is not very close to the actual meaning. And as such gets hollowed out a bit.
- coldtea 6y ago>I must live in a bubble. I don't experience the emotion of disgust. I don't know people who experience the emotion of disgust. And yet, you went ahead to perfectly describe (in all but the explicit term), how you are effectively disgusted by the supporters of the previous US President, the people who use the word disgust, and Republicans in general - and in a completely unrelated thread to boot. One could very well ascribe this to virtue signalling and projection.