As much as we try not to judge people, sometimes they give us a warning signal we just can’t ignore. A Reddit thread gets into this by asking, “What is a phrase someone says that is an instant red flag?” It seems people have a lot of thoughts on this, as more than 16-thousand have responded in just one day.
These are the blazing, blaring, waving red flag phrases we can’t ignore, according to Reddit:
- “I'm brutally honest, that's just who I am”
- “We are like a family here.”
- “I'm a nice guy”
- “You have to earn my respect.”
- “It's because I'm a Scorpio / Pisces / Etc.”
- “Emotional abuse isn't real”
- “Anyone who posts and uses the hashtags Namaste or grateful heart usually turn out to be gigantic entitled a-holes”
- “‘I’m an empath.’ Every single time someone says that they later turn out to be anything but. Real empaths don’t go around advertising.”
- “No offense but…”
- “I'm always right”
- “‘A lot of people don't like me because I'm blunt.’ No, you're probably just an a*hole.”
- “‘If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.’ Translation: I will be a d*ck to people because I'm entitled.”
- “I’m a disruptor”
- “I never fart”
- “I'm an alpha!”
- “I'm a real man”
- “Sorry, not sorry.”
- “I have no filter”
- “I’m not racist but …”
- “Do you know who I am?”
Source: Reddit