Person attempting to justify an injustice they also suffer, without even a thought about whether it being “how it is” might actually be connected to all the people saying dumb stuff like “Well, that’s just how it is.”
This is one of the few acceptable ones IMO. Sometimes, something is bullshit, you know it’s bullshit, everyone else knows it’s bullshit, but you have no ability to fix or avoid said bullshit, so… it is what it is.
“Well, that’s just how it is”
Person attempting to justify an injustice they also suffer, without even a thought about whether it being “how it is” might actually be connected to all the people saying dumb stuff like “Well, that’s just how it is.”
I learned recently that there’s a word for this, which is “thought-terminating cliche”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliché
Its all good, man
It Is What It Is
This is one of the few acceptable ones IMO. Sometimes, something is bullshit, you know it’s bullshit, everyone else knows it’s bullshit, but you have no ability to fix or avoid said bullshit, so… it is what it is.
And it ain’t what it ain’t.
Fuckin way she goes.
Ok Yogi
And now you’re going to notice them all over the internet.
I just respond “if that wasn’t how it is there’d be nothing to talk about.”