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13 responses to “Words matter”

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   Don Curton

   January 28, 2025 at 5:42 am

   It goes way back to when they took the work gay, which meant joyful, and used it as slang for homo.

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   B

   January 28, 2025 at 6:51 am

   Well said.

   The Left thinks that defining something differently, especially in the media, changes the meaning.
   It doesn’t.

   Renaming something doesn’t change what it is….and they can fool the Leftists that follow them blindly, but not thinking individuals.

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   Matthew W

   January 28, 2025 at 6:56 am

   Democrats are
   1) ignorant
   2) Liars

   It’s impossible to have an intelligent, adult, rational discussion with them because they refuse to understand what words mean

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   wv citybilly

   January 28, 2025 at 7:45 am

   Undocumented newcomer vs Illegal alien

   I’ve been saying this for fifty years. There’s no such thing in law as an “illegal immigrant”, or any of the other these gobbledygook phrases invented out of thin air that imply some right to be here.

   They are Foreign Nationals, correctly classified as Aliens, and here Illegally. Ergo, Illegal Alien is correct legal terminology. Every politician, every news organization, knows this.

   They do not use the gobbledygook phrases by accident.

   US Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, an Unelected Bureaucrat, racist, sexist, and communist, says it’s demeaning to call them that.

   May dogs piss on her grave.

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   Nemo

   January 28, 2025 at 8:05 am

   Changing the words that define various groups is one of the key strategies in the Cloward Piven and communist playbooks. Getting the media to play along and promote revising terms is another key strategy. Thankfully, the MSM is now discredited, although they are still a news source for a goodly % of the population.

   Technology has changed to game here. The proliferation of alt media; podcasts and non mainstream news sources, and Trump labeling the MSM as fake news, has almost rendered the MSM irrelevant.

   Using widely disseminated news media as a way of controlling opinion is as old as the printing press.

   The internet changed all of that.

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   blueray

   January 28, 2025 at 10:16 am

   P. J. O’ROURKE SAID IT BEST :
   At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. ~ P. J. O’Rourke

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   greg

   January 28, 2025 at 11:32 am

   loony leftist linguistics, it would be entertaining to see a fully compiled list (even though the first 114 pages would now be only a partial peek at genders)

   my opinion, this experiment in lunacy snowballed with the good will and intentions of the ADA…those practices were bastardized and weaponized in unintended, but somehow legal, ways

   let’s hope we aren’t too far gone

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   Gerry

   January 28, 2025 at 1:45 pm

   Unhomed instead of homeless
   Pioneer instead of illegal immigrant.
   Gender instead of biological sex.
   My current favorite- Food insecurity instead of bought lotto tickets and tattoos.

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   Glenn

   January 28, 2025 at 2:23 pm

   Liberals are ruled by emotion. Using euphemisms allows them to disassociate the negative connotation associated with certain words like illegal or pedophile, thus enabling them to feel better about themselves and morally superior to others while defending their otherwise indefensible positions.
   Conservation are ruled by logic.

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    Big Ruckus D

    January 28, 2025 at 8:13 pm

    It’s worse than all that, even. The words/phrases they chose to substitute are also purposefully chosen to be blatantly in opposition to observable reality, and thereby intentionally insulting to those of us who reside there. It’s a giant Orwellian “fuck you” right in our faces everytime one of these BS terms is used, instead of the actual word(s) that should be used.

    Anyone who chooses to misuse the language in the fashion these people have should receive an immediate and painful beating for every instance of their complicity in perverting the English vocabulary. If nothing else, fear of the pain would eventually stop them from behaving this way. And the most recalcitrant ones who cannot learn should be put down like rabid dogs for the destruction they bring about. And yes, that’s my brutally honest take on it, with no apologies made.

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    avraham

    January 29, 2025 at 1:36 am

    to change language is the oldest trick of the communists

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12. 

    Midwest Chick

    January 29, 2025 at 8:58 am

    Don–I get the point, but the proper term is homosexual. Leaving out the last part makes it a slur.

    B–Depends. If the word democracy is used in schools instead of Republic, then children are indoctrinated.

    Matthew–True on all counts.

    wv–She’s all identity politics all of the time. Don’t care if it’s ‘demeaning’. It’s accurate and they earned it.

    Nemo–Yep and at least it’s one good thing about the internet.

    blueray–P.J. is totally correct, IMO.

    greg–As long as people notice and are not using their words, then we haven’t gotten too far to fix.

    Gerry–Love the last one!!

    Glenn–I also think they like having a ‘secret language’.

    BRD–I’m not sure that most of them are actually that cognizant of what they are doing. Most are following the leaders.

    avraham–Indeed. A la Cloward-Piven as Nemo pointed out.

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13. 

    Nemo

    January 29, 2025 at 9:28 am

    …and then there’s memes, or the internet version of “a picture is worth 1000 words”

    

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