The list of words is from what the article describes as the ’center-left’ Third Way think-tank. Har har.
Why take meaningful policy positions and fight for something when you can just adjust your language? -Democrats
#1: Politico
Use words to show you’re college educated:
Voters: “YOU THINK YOU’RE BETTER THAN ME??!?!?”
Say the absolute dumbest shit imaginable:
Voters: “LOOK AT THEM! THEY’RE JUST LIKE ME!!!”
How about we don’t.
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 … cisgender … deadnaming … heteronormative … patriarchy … LGBTQIA+ … BIPOC … allyship … incarcerated people … involuntary confinement.
They really just seem to want to avoid challenging conversations, don’t they?
