The list of words is from what the article describes as the ’center-left’ Third Way think-tank. Har har.
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?
Why take meaningful policy positions and fight for something when you can just adjust your language? -Democrats
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.”
Bullshit from a bunch of literal neoliberals that no one should ever listen too.
Yeah, I mean the Clintons were balls-deep in the origin of Third Way. Center-left, my shapley ass. They make Goldwater Republicans look progressive.
They change the name every couple years but the players and platform are always the same.
They’ve caused an insane amount of damage not just to America, but most of the world as well.
Like, just think about where shit would be today if America followed the trajectory of FDR
True true.
Imagine further if Henry Wallace had not been replaced as FDR’s VP by Truman just a few months before FDR died. We would have had a real scientist (HW was a corn geneticist who founded the first hybrid corn seed company) at the helm.
The post-world war 2 world would have developed very differently.
(sigh)
my shapley ass
Go on…
If you insist. My ass is very shapely as a result of dedication to that cause and I draw attention to it whenever possible.
In this essay, I will ….
#1: Politico
How about we don’t.
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!!!”
