This is amazing.
Yes, this is a list of words that Democrats are no longer supposed to use. This was compiled by Third Way, a center-left public policy think tank, in an effort to get Democrats to put away their woke language and to try to sound like normal people again.
It's a big challenge.
From Politico Playbook:
In a new memo, 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.
Uhh, yeah, the Democrats use woke language that appeals to wokies and no one else.
The list of newspeak words they should drop is truly incredible. Things we've been making fun of on our site for years. (For fun, I'll hyperlink some of our articles about these terms so you can see their real-life usage).
Among the blacklisted terms: privilege … violence (as in 'environmental violence') … dialoguing … triggering … othering … microaggression … holding space … body shaming … subverting norms … systems of oppression … cultural appropriation … Overton window … existential threat to [the climate, democracy, economy] … radical transparency … stakeholders … the unhoused … food insecurity … housing insecurity … person who immigrated … birthing person ... pregnant people … cisgender … deadnaming … heteronormative … patriarchy … LGBTQIA+ … Latinx ... BIPOC … allyship … incarcerated people … involuntary confinement.
Wait! They forgot "chestfeeders" and "uterus-owners"!
This list looks just as much like a colorless woke lexicon as it does your average AOC campaign speech.
I'm not even sure The Squad has the vocabulary to operate in the political space if all of these words are taken away!
'We are doing our best to get Democrats to talk like normal people and stop talking like they're leading a seminar at Antioch,' says Matt Bennett, Third Way's executive vice president of public affairs. 'We think language is one of the central problems we face with normie voters, signaling that we are out of touch with how they live, think and talk.'
My favorite part of this report, and there are many great parts, is this little nugget also from Bennett.
'Also, elected officials like [Delaware Rep.] Sarah McBride and [Kentucky Gov.] Andy Beshear are begging their colleagues to just be normal again.'
Sarah McBride, a dude whose real name is Tim and loves to invade the ladies' room at the capitol, wants the Democrats to be normal???
When THAT dude is the voice of reason, you know your party has gone off the rails!
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