Originally posted by admiral1018:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/22/democrats-woke-language-blacklist-00519421

In a new memo, shared exclusively with POLITICO, the center-left think tank Third Way is circulating a list of 45 words and phrases they want Democrats to avoid using, alleging the terms put “a wall between us and everyday people of all races, religions, and ethnicities.” It’s a set of words that Third Way suggests “people simply do not say, yet they hear them from Democrats.”

They span six categories — from “therapy speak” to “explaining away crime” — and put in sharp relief a party that authors say makes Democrats “sound like the extreme, divisive, elitist, and obfuscatory, enforcers of wokeness.” In the document, titled “Was It Something I Said?” Third Way argues that to “please the few, we have alienated the many — especially on culture issues, where our language sounds superior, haughty and arrogant,” according to the memo.

45 words broken into 6 categories. Descriptions are from the memo itself.

Therapy-Speak - These words say “I’m more empathetic than you, and you are callous to hurting other’s feelings.”

• Privilege
  
• Violence (as in “environmental violence”)
  
• Dialoguing
  
• Othering
  
• Triggering
  
• Microaggression/assault/invalidation
  
• Progressive stack
  
• Centering
  
• Safe space
  
• Holding space
  
• Body shaming

Seminar Room Language - This language says “I’m smarter and more concerned about important issues than you. Your kitchen table concerns are small.”

• Subverting norms
  
• Systems of oppression
  
• Critical theory
  
• Cultural appropriation
  
• Postmodernism
  
• Overton Window
  
• Heuristic
  
• Existential threat to [climate, the planet, democracy, the economy]

Organizer Jargon - These words say “we are beholden to groups, not individuals. People have no agency.”

• Radical transparency
  
• Small ‘d’ democracy
  
• Barriers to participation
  
• Stakeholders
  
• The unhoused
  
• Food insecurity
  
• Housing insecurity
  
• Person who immigrated

Gender/Orientation Correctness - These say “your views on traditional genders and gender roles are at best quaint.”

• Birthing person/inseminated person
  
• Pregnant people
  
• Chest feeding
  
• Cisgender
  
• Deadnaming
  
• Heteronormative
  
• Patriarchy
  
• LGBTQIA+

The Shifting Language of Racial Constructs - These words signal that talking about race is even more of a minefield. You will be called out as racist if you do not use the latest and correct terminology.

• Latinx
  
• BIPOC
  
• Allyship
  
• Intersectionality
  
• Minoritized communities

Explaining Away Crime - This says: “The criminal is the victim. The victim is an afterthought.”

• Justice-involved
  
• Carceration
  
• Incarcerated people
  
• Involuntary confinement

What does everyone here think? Should Democrats and other progressives stop using these woke words and phrases to stop alienating themselves from the average person?

Originally posted by admiral1018:

What does everyone here think? Should Democrats and other progressives stop using these woke words and phrases to stop alienating themselves from the average person?

Originally posted by St✩rlight:

Only freaks would even know what a single one of these dumb words would mean.

Originally posted by Lost Puppy:

Originally posted by St✩rlight:

Only freaks would even know what a single one of these dumb words would mean.

but they're used by 100% of OT lefties

Originally posted by Santa Klaus:

TL;DR = Too many American voters are too stupid, ignorant, small minded, short sighted, bigoted and lacking in empathy to successfully appeal to them on an intellectual and compassionate basis.