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scissor statement (plural scissor statements) (Internet slang)

1. A polarising and incendiary topic, opinion or phrase.

   The Ground Zero mosque was a scissor statement that divided Americans.

   • 2021, Charles Arthur, Social Warming: How Social Media Polarises Us All‎, →ISBN:

     Brexit, by its nature, was a perfect scissor statement for almost everyone in the UK: the population was split into ‘Leavers’ and ‘Remainers’, and mutual outrage at the beliefs and actions of the other side became commonplace, as did personal abuse.

   • 2023 May 5, @JeremiahDJohns, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 15 June 2024:

     I'm not sure there's been any recent news event that's as much of a Scissor Statement as the homeless subway death. Reading different accounts on this, you'd think they were describing two completely different incidents. Like this was designed to be maximally divisive.

   • 2023 July 30, Helen Lewis, “The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter”, in The Atlantic‎:

     The world avoids falling into perpetual low-grade warfare only because she accidentally creates a scissor statement that tears apart the company before its work is finished. The story captured the sense of social media as a rolling referendum on every subject under the sun.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:scissor statement.