Pro-pet romantic preference

Aka. P.P.R.P.; When an individual is only romantically attracted to people who wants and or has pets

Vanessa is only interested in dating people who have pets because she believes it shows they can handle some responsibility, are compassionate, and considerate. She has a pro-pet romantic preference.

Political assault

A situation where an individual is motivated to physically assault someone because they strongly disagree with the other person’s political views and or the victim’s political identity. It usually starts out as a verbal disagreement, which escalates to the point where one of the individuals involved in the incident physically attacks the other one and the situation turns into a full-blown fight. The attacker may have strong biases against certain populations, certain mental illnesses that have not been diagnosed and or are not being treated adequately, extreme political beliefs, and or political insanity.

When a political assault happens, it often draws the public and politician’s attention and they may quickly mobilize to address the issues that facilitated it to occur; depending on who the victim was, who the attacker was, what specific issue or bias motivated the attacker’s actions, the responses from the public officials, the victim, and or celebrities, and the circumstances leading up to the event.

Postmortem objectification

A major societal problem where individuals are no longer valued as people after they die and instead are valued by society and the government as property, financial resources, and or objects

An example of postmortem objectification is when grave robbery laws treat deceased people as property instead of people, which can be inferred from language used in the laws and whether the penalty for committing the crime is more similar to that area’s laws about abduction or theft.

Silent Witness

1: An individual who witnesses a crime who does not speak up out of the fear that either their family or themselves may be attacked in retaliation for speaking up
2: An individual who reports a crime, who chooses to remain anonymous when doing so to avoid being identified and forced to testify about the crime

A silent witness just reported the murder of an unidentified person on Montuyoc Avenue.

American dream paradox

A harsh reality that many people come to the United States in order to start over and live a better life by having freedom, social equality, better education, and money, but yet for most people who come to this country, this dream will be impossible to completely achieve until several generations later, assuming they have a family with children, because of limited resource access and education, poor understanding of the social norms that most people in America actually follow, and distrust of immigrants in some parts of the country.

Pema and her family moved to America from Nicaragua in the hopes of starting over and help her children live better lives than what they had in their homeland, but they found it was exceedingly difficult to live in the U.S. because of the differences of America’s social norms compared to Nicaragua’s social norms and difficulty getting a job and finding decent housing. They are experiencing the American dream paradox.

Political specialist

1: An individual who politicians, think tanks, and interest groups consult to learn more about a particular political topic or policy issue and or provide suggestions on what types of policies could be made to help address the issue. It should be noted you don’t necessarily have to have a college degree or work in a career field that deals with the area you have expertise in.

2: A person who is very well informed about what very well informed about what is happening in government on various levels and makes an intensive effort to keep other people informed of what is happening in the government. They know what numerous famous individuals, politicians, businesses, and organizations are doing on a variety of political issues in various government jurisdictions. They use social media and or blogs as the main way they keep the public informed on what is happening.

Leonard knows a great deal about cybersecurity and how social media companies design algorithms to suggest content to users of that platform and monitor user’s activities on that platform. They are a political specialist.

Political insanity

1: The chaos associated with politics
2: A perception problem where an individual's abilities to tell what is and is not real, tell right from wrong, and control their emotions are impaired because of how an individual's views and expectations about the world around them and other people's behavior are strongly shaped by their political ideology. They tend not to respect other people's opinions.

1: There is always so much political insanity occurring during election season, because the politicians always fight over things that tend to be quite pointless to the extent where it becomes annoying.
2: Marco tends to have a big issue with political insanity. He never listens to other people's views on politics and keeps asserting that they are wrong.