This Is the Word of The Year for 2021

Readers Digest ^ | 12-27-2021 | AOL/Readers Digest

[blam]

Each year, Dictionary.com reveals a word that often serves as a perfect snapshot of a given year. Maybe you talked about it, texted it, or read a blog about it. No matter how you encountered it, Dictionary.com’s editors say the chosen word was at the forefront of many of our minds in 2021.

What is the word of the year for 2021?

What is old is indeed new again because Dictionary.com editors proclaim “allyship”—a noun born in the mid-1800s—as the word that dominated the American English vernacular during a year that simmered with racial and political unrest after the rolling boil of the height of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Allyship, which Dictionary.com admits it only added to its online search in November, means “the status or role of a person who advocates and actively works for the inclusion of a marginalized or politicized group in all areas of society, not as a member of that group but in solidarity with its struggle and point of view and under its leadership.”

(Meanwhile, Merriam-Webster knighted “vaccine” as its word of the year 2021. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), currently, 240 million Americans have been jabbed at least once in the fight against COVID. That’s 72.4 percent of the population. Wondering if you can get your COVID-19 vaccine and flu shot on the same day? Here’s your answer.)

Why Dictionary.com chose this word of the year for 2021

Dictionary.com chose the word of the year for 2021 after many celebrities, politicians, and companies (not just black-owned businesses) took a stand against racial injustice. That was—you guessed it—allyship. (Some shows of allyship missed the mark, however, and were derided as performative allyship.)

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[blam]

I thought for sure that the word for 2021 would be 'fearporn'. That word is terribly over used, just like 'paradigm' and 'gravitas' were a few years ago..

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Ugh! How ‘woke’ of them. *SPIT*

[Diogenesis]

“TREASON-IGNORED” was the word for the last several years.

[ClearCase_guy]

I have never heard of this word.

They are pushing propaganda, pure and simple.

[dead]

Source: AOL/Readers Digest - combining the worst of hellish 90s technology with the appalling condensed vapidity of 70s generic literary fluff.

[gundog]

Haven’t seen it once. I saw “comradery,” the other day. Didn’t care for it.

[ThunderSleeps]

More woke BS. They want to sound so connected, so concerned... "Why everyone was so into helping marginalized people..." BS.

Same with "vaccine" a lot of people talked about vaccines. It is looking more and more like we really don't have any new vaccines. Sure, we could talk about MMR, Polio, etc. vaccines. But for covid we have maybe one, the J&J. The mRNA based vaccines are apparently so ineffective as to stretch the definition beyond recognition.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Totally!

[Robert DeLong]

Word of the year, that few have even heard of until now.

[sasquatch]

insurrection

[Bob434]

[[editors say the chosen word was at the forefront of many of our minds in 2021. ]]

Phrase of the year “Let’s go Brandon”

[rlmorel]

allyship
[ al-ahy-ship ]
noun
(See "Virtue Signaling")

1. The state of a far Leftist or other Useful Idiot who needs another word to describe their version of institutionalized racism and sexism: My evidence of what a moral and superior person I am is my allyship with Black Lives Matter, the Black Israelites, and Antifa
   
   
2. The status or role of a person who advocates and actively works for the inclusion of a marginalized or politicized group in all areas of society, not as a member of that group but in solidarity with its struggle and point of view and under its leadership: Genuine allyship does not come with special recognition—we do not get awards for confronting issues people have to live with every day.
   
   
3. The relationship or status of persons, groups, or nations associating and cooperating with one another for a common cause or purpose: In 1943, fearing that earlier racist immigration laws would hinder allyship with China in the war against Japan, the U.S. passed legislation allowing 105 Chinese immigrants per year.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

My first choice for the past DECADE would be, ‘Sh#tshow.’

Between all the BS from the Socialist Democrats & RINOs trying to take down President Trump, to today’s CLOWNS in COMMAND. It’s all been ridiculously offensive to ‘We The People.’ If ANYONE deserves some ‘allyship’ it’s US! Conservatives/Christians are currently THE most marginalized people in America, for sure!

And yet Congress, with it’s 2% ‘approval rating’ just blithely* carries on!

*Also a word that should be used more often!

[Chode]

allyship - kinda like blm+antifag+sjw+antisemitism... that kind?

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

allyship

I have allyship with the Declaration and Constitution of the United States. I even took an oath.

Did I get that right?

5.56mm

[Colinsky]

I saw “comradery,” the other day.

I saw that too, but I think they just misspelled "camaraderie."

[FoxInSocks]

as the word [allyship] that dominated the American English vernacular

What a farce. I may have seen it once in writing.

[TLI]

Allyship, which Dictionary.com admits it only added to its online search in November,

But it is "word of the year."

It is a prog lie.

Made up by the prog and then they demand to be believed.

Good for a cheap laugh.

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[moovova]

Allyship = DeathStar

I’ve seen that movie...

[gundog]

Here’s the line that I referenced:

White House staffers are unhappy with their jobs to the point where they anonymously leaked to the online publication in hopes that senior staffers would be alerted to the lack of comradery and overall happiness in the workplace.

A misspelling is one option. But I think they might be trying to sneak in some commie-speak.