I never realized there was a term to describe the low-effort phrases that people often use to get other people to shut up.
A thought-terminating cliché (also known as a semantic stop-sign, a thought-stopper, bumper sticker logic, or cliché thinking) is a form of loaded language—often passing as folk wisdom—intended to end an argument and quell cognitive dissonance with a cliché rather than a point.[1][2] Some such clichés are not inherently terminating, and only becomes so when used to intentionally dismiss, dissent, or justify fallacies.[3]
The term was popularized by Robert Jay Lifton in his 1961 book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, who referred to the use of the cliché, along with “loading the language”, as “the language of non-thought”.[4]
It is what it is
It’s what it’s.
I hate you for putting this poison out into the land.
It’s not what it isn’t.
Itn’t what it itn’t
T’aint what it t’aint
'Tis what 'tis.
Things always happen for a reason.
Jesus has a plan for you.
Isn’t that fecker dead?
He wouldn’t give you anything that you can’t handle
Of all of them, I hate this one the most by far
I use this one myself, but only as a statement of a fact that i cant change, not to just dismiss thing us dint want to deal with.
For example: a co-worker complaining about something going wrong on a project and at some point i have to say ‘it is what it is’ (or something of similar effect) and say that as much as that sucks, its out of our control and we need to deal with finding a solution because bitching aint gunna make the problem un-fuck itself.
.:|;:Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
They don’t think it be like it is,
But it do.
😂
Way she goes.
it ain’t what it should be
Ain’t that the truth
I prefer the 2Pac variant, which I sing.
“That’s just the waayy it iss”
2Pac variant? Put some respect on Bruce Hornsby’s name!