Democrats have spent years creating a political thesaurus so convoluted that even the Oxford English Dictionary is begging for mercy. But now, the left-of-center outfit Third Way has delivered a startling revelation to fellow progressives: Maybe stop talking like you just walked out of a graduate seminar on postmodernism.
In a new memo, Third Way gently scolds the left for using words no normal person ever says — terms like “othering,” “centering,” “food insecurity,” and “dialoguing.” Instead of making Democrats sound empathetic, the group admits, this therapy-speak only makes them sound like they’re running a support group for doctoral candidates.
The response from the far-left blog The Blue Alaskan was immediate and foul:
But before you think this means Democrats are changing their tune, think again. The message isn’t “stop being woke,” it’s simply to stop sounding woke. The agenda stays the same: Just swap out the thesaurus. “Birthing person” might quietly shuffle offstage, but the anti-woman policies that created that term it will stick around.
The memo divides bad language into categories like “Therapy-Speak” and “Seminar Room Language.” (Which is funny, because entire Democratic campaigns could be filed under “Seminar Room Language.”) Apparently words like “microaggression,” “intersectionality,” and “existential threat” are alienating. Who knew? Maybe voters don’t want a lecture every time they buy groceries.
Here are the terms that leftists are advised to avoid:
Therapy-Speak
- Privilege
- Violence (as in “environmental violence”)
- Dialoguing
- Othering
- Triggering
- Microaggression / assault / invalidation
- Progressive stack
- Centering
- Safe space
- Holding space
- Body shaming
Seminar Room Language
- Subverting norms
- Systems of oppression
- Critical theory
- Cultural appropriation
- Postmodernism
- Overton Window
- Heuristic
- Existential threat to [climate, the planet, democracy, the economy]
Organizer Jargon
- Radical transparency
- Small “d” democracy
- Barriers to participation
- Stakeholders
- The unhoused
- Food insecurity
- Housing insecurity
- Person who immigrated
Gender/Orientation Correctness
- Birthing person / inseminated person
- Pregnant people
- Chest feeding
- Cisgender
- Deadnaming
- Heteronormative
- Patriarchy
- LGBTQIA+
The Shifting Language of Racial Constructs
- Latinx
- BIPOC
- Allyship
- Intersectionality
- Minoritized communities
Explaining Away Crime
- Justice-involved
- Carceration
- Incarcerated people
- Involuntary confinement
Still, Third Way assures the comrades that they’re not policing language or banning phrases, but rather suggesting that, for public consumption, Democrats speak like actual humans. In private, of course, they can still whisper about cisheteronormativity to their heart’s content.
The irony is delicious: the party that gave America “Latinx” is now warning its own people that no one actually uses the word Latinx. Third Way even admits that the tortured jargon “invites distrust” among ordinary folks. Translation: If you sound like a sociology syllabus, people start to wonder what you’re hiding.
Of course, none of this changes the fact that Democrats are still Democrats. Whether they say “the unhoused” or “homeless,” the policy is the same. Whether they say “justice-involved individual” or “felon,” the end goal doesn’t budge. The rebranding is purely cosmetic, like putting a friendly smiley face on a tax increase.
So don’t expect a grand awakening here. This is not a pivot; it’s a vocabulary lesson. Third Way isn’t asking Democrats to be different, only to sound different. As if voters can’t tell the difference between a fresh coat of paint and a crumbling foundation.
In short: same wine, new wineskins. Or to put it in Third Way-approved language, they’re just “holding space” for a more “authentic dialogue” with voters.
While this mandated change is freaky enough on its face. Better believe that Blue Wave was actually paid to give the Dems this advice. Sort of like a mom hiring a potty-training consultant.
Cute outfits. The US military must have gone to great effort to get these new uniforms to fit.
Open question:
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How do you salute a trans in uniform?
Total clown show. That pervert has disgraced the uniform.
This picture should be placed in every US Post Office under “10 least wanted.” It will give the customers in line something to laugh about.
Do you answer them with Sir, or Maam??
They’re heading off to group therapy sessions at API.
…….then on to Nordie’s for new dresses and panties.
Is there actually a normal Democrat? In my experience they are all afflicted with mental illnesses of varying degrees. The latest type is TDS, which seems to have gotten them all. Men marrying men. Women marrying women. Same sex couples adopting babies from different races. Trannies marrying straights, or other trannies. A bizarro world that they live in. Hard to believe they could be normalized.
They are all a bunch of fellating perverts
Freaks of nature, Sam.
I’ve extended my office hours. They both need to schedule appointments.
If democrats begin speaking like normal people it will still be mendacious and meant to deceive. Never trust a democrat, ever.
Everyday is a Halloween costume party with these q***rs and degenerates. Democrat Administrations sure bring them out……as normal events.
Think about it. If Joe Biden was their hero, then this IS their normal.
Democrats are told to try to sound ‘normal’ It will never happen They will always sound like trash
I hope the day is coming when we look back at all of this madness in a similar way to how we view the madness and insanity of the witch trials.
“Third Way” in case you need to “triangulate”.
What the h/// was cisgender supposed to mean, anyway?
And Dunleavy’s going to be a little tangled over the “food insecurity” reference as he used that one recently, IIRC.
” cis” gender likely came from some chemist somewhere. As,” cis” in chemistry is th antonym of ” trans”. In this case that’s the meaning , A ” cis” person lives as their chromosomal gender.
Democrats are losing big time. Their efforts to transform our American culture and way of life is backfiring. They are sinking quickly and going down the s***er. We can only put up with weird for so long.
LOL !
I don’t see ‘racist’, the name calling phrase for anyone or anything one dislikes!
Don’t neglect ” Fascist! Fascist! Bigot!! nazi! Naz!i nazi! turboNazi!!”
It’s true. As soon as I hear the Leftist jargon I dismiss the speaker as a woke idiot lemming who likely has no ability for independent thought…like a few of the liberals who post on this site. Drones, sheep, useless idiots. Good for a laugh with your friends now and then though. But somebody had to line up for the Covid death jab and who better than those society would be better off without? Medical test subjects…their highest and best use and as cancer spikes amongst the sheeple they still can’t see it. We all saw the sudden death spike in the early stages of the mRNA rollout, as the conspiracy theorists predicted, and now at the 5 year mark the cancer deaths are coming in right on schedule. And still they can’t see it. Apparently Ivermectin is being used as a cancer fighting drug that might help them but we all know that they’ll go to their graves yearning for one more mRNA booster…because some stranger in a white lab coat they view as an authority figure convinced them that a medical technology that never worked before was the magic bullet that saved them and “Ivermectin BAD!” Just get the numerous jabs, wear a paper mask and maintain six feet of separation and you’re good to go as the filthy unvaccinated died horrible deaths by the tens of thousands. That also never happened but they still believe. It’s Darwinism. Survival based not on strength but skepticism and independent thought combined with a healthy dose of distrust for authority figures. There apparently weren’t as many of us as I’d hoped but most of us are still alive so natural selection should work to make our species better. Hope for the best but, in the meantime, watch out for those naive and compliant lemmings out there – they’re actually in the majority right now.
I don’t believe (D)emocrats will be able to NOT use those words. They can’t help themselves. This is just another attempt from the playbook of pretending to be centrist or conservative before an election in order to appear less ignoble, thereby confusing low information voters. It’s worked for 30 years. Why can’t it work for them this time. Look at our Anchorage Assembly for example. Mary Peltola’s campaign. Lisa Murkowski’s…
You mean I can no longer speak about anti-non-cis-binary othering?
You know, deadnaming isn’t exclusive to a certain crowd. How many people remember that a certain U.S. senator was consistently referred to as Daniel Sullivan or Daniel S. Sullivan up until a certain point in 2014? Since then, it’s “how dare you” if you call him anything other than Dan Sullivan. Same with Mary Peltola in 2022, even though once in office, she was usually referred to as Mary Sattler Peltola.
Come on, you have to know why Mr. Sullivan was a little cautious over his name! There IS another Dan Sullivan, a former Anchorage Mayor, with the same name. Until he got well known on the national scene, he was just trying to keep things straight. Your comment is a little disingenuous. (Meaning someone pretending to know less about something than they really do.)
Good lord almighty. Those 2 are an eyesore.
1 look at those 2 and a person thinks about taking to the bottle.
“Third Way” in case you want to “Triangulate”.
Part of Biden’s clown show. It’s hard to believe that these people could focus on anything except the large daily dose of LGBTQ obsession. A never ending parade of abnormals with severe mental illness.
In the late Obama years I remember watching a Sunday political talk show host snottily correcting her conservative guest for using the phrase “illegal alien”, and I remember thinking then that we were starting down a rabbit hole. The fact that the left’s correct-speak almost completely overwhelmed us is sobering. Thank you President Trump for leading us out of that horror show.
Democrats think they have a messaging problem. Instead their smug, barely concealed condescension prevents them from realizing most do not want what they are selling. Another coat of paint on the old girl ‘aint changing anything.
Also, there is a rich irony that the party of the word police, the HR mafia, the gay race commie hustlers of all types, used words to censor, debank, fire, not hire, not admit, cancel, jail, bankrupt and kill for the last ten years now come out with another list of words you can’t say. They learn nothing and they forget nothing. Never change d’s.
That said they are still better then the snake in the grass Bush republicans. I prefer the knife coming at me in my front not my back.
This is the “Change” Obama promised us who started this “transformation” and was successful in the full transformation with the help of an engineered virus leak and a stolen election to thrust his puppet into the oval office and using certain individuals as in the photo above appointed to key positions to perform his abortion of America.
The picture above is worth a thousand words.
With today’s horrific school shooting by yet another trans, it is well past time to formally reestablish the mental illness label to these people and stop them from getting guns. It’s also time to prosecute all the parents, doctors, teachers, media, and politicians that are creating this crap.
Perhaps we need ” common sense trans control” like how the dems usually bleat about ” common sense gun controls” maybe not allowing them within 1000 feet of a school,like the ” gun-free zones”
Probably want to get rid of this because they realize the words are to big for the dummies who vote Democrat
and think they may have lost an election because of using hard (& made-up) words? …..lol)
The left has been trying for decades to frame their worldview by changing the definitions of words and when that doesn’t work they just change the words themselves to fit their narrative.
Remember anthropogenic global warming, it became global warming and then climate change but when they use these code words they are still talking about the exact same concept. They try to fool people by changing words, not by changing ideas.
Obama once said “Sometimes the noise clutters and, I think, confuses the nature of the reality out there,” and “Our policies are so awesome…Why can’t you guys do a better job selling them?” he also said “We did not always think about making sure we were advertising properly what was going on”. This is how the left thinks, they are right about everything it’s just that they’ve failed to properly explain it to the idiot masses.
And maybe stop gratuitously swearing in public. And Crockett should stop the ratched ghetto affectation.
Steve-O,
I learned years ago that Commies, (modern Democrat Party) always subverts language in order to control.
Worse yet, according to Dr. Daniels, described as an English Social Critic, commie propaganda is designed to humiliate the populace. This is achieved by forcing the populace to espouse lies, the bigger and more unnatural the lie, the better! Inseminated persons for example. As if men could have babies. The goal is to make everyone a liar. Liars have lost their sense of probity and become easier to manipulate and control.
This attempt by the commie to control began with political correctness, enforced by social shamming.
Aww man!
…….err sorry woman!
…. no, no wait my feeling haven’t told me/we/us yet what and if I am a gender today…..
Here I was just going to add to the dictionary:
Gender Appropriation!
Its just NewSpeak