👉 Okay, settle into your ludicrous little seats, class. Let’s tackle this rather… prickly piece of modern vernacular:
anticorruption.
Now, traditionally, "anti-" just means against . Think "antianxiety," right? You're opposing something. So, technically, an “anticorruption crusade/measure, or frankly, whatever the fecker is saying, basically means a desperate attempt to fight off… corruption! But here’s where it gets delightfully weird. It hasn't actually been around as a standalone word for very long – we are roughly into the last decade of its creeping in. The shift came with a rather dramatic and frankly embarrassing situation: the HSBC money laundering scandal back in 2012. You remember, right? They were basically shoveling dirty money all over the fucking Thames. When that shit hit the fan, people started slapping on this newly-minted "anticorruption gagman , you know – it sounded like a fancy way of saying they wanted to whack the rot. It's essentially a beige euphemism for a very aggressive crackdown. You see? There is no actual “anticorruption' as in, there will be absolutely zero corruption, you're just trying to make it as not-as-corrupt as possible! There isn’t some grand, heroic meaning behind the word itself. The whole thing is that this word has been weaponised into a
