There was a 50,000% spike in searches for the definition of 'deplorable' after Clinton speech

[babylonsister]

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There was a 50,000% spike in searches for the definition of 'deplorable' after Clinton speech
By Jen Hayden
Tuesday Sep 13, 2016 · 2:32 PM EST



Here is your laugh of the day! There was a massive surge of online searches for the definition of ”deplorable” after Hillary Clinton used the word to describe some Trump supporters:

To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it.

People were spitting mad. I mean, gosh darn it, how dare she … wait, what does that word mean? A lot of people had to look it up:

Donald Trump is trying to capitalize on Hillary Clinton calling “half” of his supporters “deplorable," but according to Merriam-Webster, some people had to find out what the term meant first.

The online dictionary reports that searches of the word “deplorable” increased by nearly 50,000% over the weekend

Of course there is no way to be certain Trump supporters were the ones looking up the meaning of the word. Let’s just call it an educated guess.

[napkinz]

1. :)

[guillaumeb]

2. Recommended. Very funny, you educated elitist. eom

[TheBlackAdder]

3. Hopefully, they were from children who are in elementary school, else they are stupid people.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Here's a big clue as to who's searching...

there were even more searches for DEPLOREBLE and DEPLORIBLE

(just kidding, but hey, it's probably true)

[barbtries]

6. and

diplorible and daplorible and on and on.

before the internets i was stumped about the spelling of "bureaucracy," which was a word i intended to use in a paper for school. my guesses were so far off i could not find the word in the dictionary. i had to find a newspaper and pore over it before i found an occurrence of the word. that was frustrating.

[Phentex]

10. LOL!

[barbtries]

5. that's hilarious.

somewhat deplorable (how many people did not know what the word means?!), but funny. i actually laughed.

in fairness i look up words all the time, sometimes just to be sure i'm using it correctly and sometimes because i just don't know what it means!

[Motley13]

7. Apparently Pence hasn't looked it up yet

[ailsagirl]

8. It's not exactly a "difficult" word

[babylonsister]

9. Seems there were a whole lot of people

who had no idea what it meant.