admiral1018 původně napsal:

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?

admiral1018 původně napsal:

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?

St✩rlight původně napsal:

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

Lost Puppy původně napsal:

St✩rlight původně napsal:

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

but they're used by 100% of OT lefties

Santa Klaus původně napsal:

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.