{"id":1090373,"date":"2021-12-06T15:13:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T20:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1090373"},"modified":"2021-12-06T15:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T20:13:45","slug":"nolte-merriam-websters-latest-definition-of-anti-vaxxer-is-a-big-fat-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-merriam-websters-latest-definition-of-anti-vaxxer-is-a-big-fat-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolte: Merriam-Webster&#039;s Latest Definition of &#039;Anti-Vaxxer&#039; Is a Big, Fat Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnolte-merriam-websters-latest-definition-of-anti-vaxxer-is-a-big-fat-lie%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1090373&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1984-GettyImages-1230049468-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The left-wing lunatics at Merriam-Webster changed the definition of \u201canti-vaxxer\u201d into \u201ca person who opposes the use of vaccines or regulations mandating&nbsp;vaccination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, that\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/anti-vaxxer\">very first<\/a> line of the definition, which changed at the end of September:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>:&nbsp;<\/strong>a person who opposes the use of&nbsp;vaccines&nbsp;or regulations mandating&nbsp;vaccination \/\/ Some self-identified&nbsp;<em>anti-vaxxers<\/em>&nbsp;are vehemently against all vaccines. Some are skeptical of specific vaccines \u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20181125060933\/https:\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/anti-vaxxer\">previous<\/a> Merriam-Webster definition was much better:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"5\">\n<p><strong>:&nbsp;<\/strong>a person who opposes&nbsp;vaccination&nbsp;or laws that mandate vaccination<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The change is important. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, the shared belief was that when you referred to an \u201canti-vaxxer,\u201d you were referring to someone opposed to \u201call vaccines\u201d and the mandating of \u201call vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In its updated definition, Merriam-Webster is declaratively saying only \u201csome\u201d anti-vaxxers oppose \u201call vaccines.\u201d Which is another way of saying that you don\u2019t have to oppose <em>all vaccines<\/em> to be an anti-vaxxer. So now, if you oppose a single vaccine or a single vaccine mandate but are perfectly fine with all the others, you are still an \u201canti-vaxxer.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Merriam-Webster is now telling the world that there\u2019s no difference between a Jenny McCarthy and someone who opposes mandating the China Flu vaccine for five-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p>The New Oxford American Dictionary accurately describes \u201canti-vaxxer\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/merriam-webster-anti-vaxxer-definition-critics\">this way<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"7\">\n<p>A person who is opposed to vaccination, typically a parent who does not wish to vaccinate their child.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is truly Orwellian. You have Merriam-Webster deliberately lying for political purposes. The goal here is obvious: a way to give the fake news media and Democrats cover to smear those of us opposed to mandates as \u201canti-vaxxers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Opposing government mandates that force people to get vaccinated against their will is, by all objective measures, not anti-vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m as pro-vaccine as anyone. I\u2019m even as pro-coronavirus vaccine as anyone. But I am anti-mandate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>So now, the liars and frauds at Merriam-Webster have deliberately, and purely for propaganda purposes, whored out its imprimatur to allow the organized left to lump me, not only with those opposed to coronavirus vaccines but with those opposed to&nbsp;<em>all vaccines. <\/em>My sin? I don\u2019t believe the government should force its citizens to have medical procedures against their will.<\/p>\n<p>That position used to be called \u201canti-Nazi.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Institutions manipulating the language to serve statism is precisely what George Orwell warned us about in his classic <em>1984<\/em>. In order to desecrate honest debate, Orwell\u2019s state continued to shrink and shrink the dictionary, eliminating words and phrases so that open discussion and clarity were eliminated\u2026<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s precisely what Merriam-Webster is doing here.<\/p>\n<p>Now the word \u201canti-vaxxer\u201d is meaningless. That word used to be precise in its meaning: people who opposed any kind of vaccine; people who refused to have their kids vaccinated, even for things like measles and polio.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>But now, in order to serve the cause of statism, Merriam-Webster has deliberately rendered it meaningless and imprecise. So basically, if you oppose the state, you are an \u201canti-vaxxer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All over, we see the organized left destroying the language to serve its statist purpose. For example, the precise phrase \u201cillegal immigrant\u201d is no longer allowed. Instead, it\u2019s been replaced with \u201cundocumented immigrant\u201d or \u201cmigrant,\u201d which deliberately obfuscates the \u201cillegal\u201d act of breaking into our country.<\/p>\n<p>This is NSFW, but The Mighty George Carlin caught on to this years ago:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"George Carlin on words changing in a changed world\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-m-zHjZ011I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>The left cannot win a fair debate. Their ideas are just that bad. Look at all the cities where the left has its way with no opposition. They are all shitholes.<\/p>\n<p>So, all the left can do to try and win the debate is to manipulate the language. Of course, we expect that from activists.<\/p>\n<p>And now, sadly, we also expect it from once-trusted institutions like Merriam-Webster.<\/p>\n<p>American institutions are all garbage.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The left-wing lunatics at Merriam-Webster changed the definition of \u201canti-vaxxer\u201d into \u201ca person who opposes the use of vaccines or regulations mandating\u00a0vaccination.\u201d In fact, that\u2019s the very first line of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}