{"id":1580136,"date":"2022-07-30T07:47:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T11:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1580136"},"modified":"2022-07-30T07:48:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T11:48:04","slug":"the-lefts-war-on-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-lefts-war-on-words\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left&#8217;s War on Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/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%2Fthe-lefts-war-on-words%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=1580136&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:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2021-06\/Pride%20parade%20GettyImages-451474560.jpg?h=167871c3&#038;itok=mnsaJ46M\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The left and its allies in the media have long manipulated the meaning of words for political advantage. For instance, &#8220;illegal aliens&#8221; became &#8220;undocumented workers&#8221; in most news stories about a decade ago. But the war on words has been escalating as the left presses LGBTQ+ rights and seeks to obscure the reality of a Biden recession.<\/p>\n<p>The Merriam-Webster dictionary, for instance, has changed the definitions for &#8220;female,&#8221; &#8220;male,&#8221; &#8220;they,&#8221; &#8220;boy,&#8221; and &#8220;girl&#8221; to fit with gender identity ideology. While these changes were made in 2019 and 2020, The Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh and conservative account Libs of TikTok <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/07\/23\/criticism-dogs-merriam-webster-dictionarys-redefinition-of-female-male-to-include-gender-identity\/\">posted tweets about the definition changes last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/male\">male<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/female\">female<\/a>,&#8221; listed\u00a0definitions include &#8220;having a gender identity that is the opposite of female&#8221; and &#8220;having a gender identity that is the opposite of male,&#8221; respectively.<\/p>\n<p>For &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/they\">they<\/a>,&#8221; one of the definitions is &#8220;a single person whose\u00a0gender identity\u00a0is nonbinary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/boy\">Boy<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/girl\">girl<\/a>&#8221; are defined as &#8220;a child whose\u00a0gender identity\u00a0is male&#8221; and &#8220;a person whose\u00a0gender identity\u00a0is female,&#8221; respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, meanwhile, has updated its guidance on COVID-19 illness for &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/need-extra-precautions\/pregnant-people.html\">Pregnant and Recently Pregnant People<\/a>.&#8221; Instead of calling those who are pregnant &#8220;women,&#8221; the page adopts the gender-neutral term &#8220;people&#8221; to blur the biological (as opposed to social) basis of male-female differences. Only once does the updated guidance mention &#8220;pregnant women&#8221; \u2014 although the studies it cites on COVID risks associated with\u00a0pregnancy and childbirth freely refer to &#8220;women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During Supreme Court Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/congress\/sen-marsha-blackburn-stunned-lack-concrete-answers-ketanji-jackson-during\">Ketanji Brown Jackson&#8217;s nomination hearing<\/a>, she said she couldn&#8217;t define what a woman was because she wasn&#8217;t a biologist.<\/p>\n<p>In June, Walsh released a documentary with The Daily Wire entitled &#8220;What is a woman?&#8221; that sees the narrator travel the world to get an answer to the question. On release day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/how-a-cyberattack-tried-to-stop-you-from-watching-matt-walshs-what-is-a-woman\">The Daily Wire&#8217;s website experienced a DDoS attack<\/a>, where hackers disrupt a website with bot traffic to prevent users from accessing it.\u00a0Despite this, the film was the most-streamed in the history of the site, co-CEO Jeremy Boreing said.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-matt-walsh-suspended-from-twitter-over-transgender-tweets-heres-what-twitter-has-censored\">suspended from Twitter<\/a> earlier this year for tweeting: &#8220;The greatest female &#8216;Jeopardy!&#8217; champion of all time is a man. The top female college swimmer is a man. The first female four-star admiral in the Public Health Service is a man. Men have dominated female high school track and the female MMA circuit. The patriarchy wins in the end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/debug\/twitter-ban-groomers-lgbtq-slur\/\">Twitter has also now banned<\/a> the use of the word &#8220;groomers&#8221; on its platform. The term came into wide usage after opponents of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/internet\/lgbtq-abuse-spikes-online-fueled-intensifying-culture-war-rcna24904\">Florida&#8217;s Parental Rights in Education bill<\/a>\u00a0labeled the measure the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Say Gay&#8221; bill, despite the legislation only banning developmentally inappropriate instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in public schools for grades K-3. Those mischaracterizing the measure were in turn labeled &#8220;groomers&#8221; by some supporters of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The term is now covered under Twitter&#8217;s &#8220;Hateful Conduct policy when it is used as a descriptor, in context of discussion of gender identity,&#8221; Twitter&#8217;s health product communications lead Lauren Alexander told the Daily Dot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Grooming&#8217; is a slur that that falsely equates being LGBTQ with being a pedophile,&#8221; the Daily Dot reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Groomer&#8217; isn&#8217;t an anti LGBTQ slur,&#8221;\u00a0Christina Pushaw, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis&#8217; press secretary, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1550270108458688514\">replied on Twitter<\/a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s a description of an evil behavior that sick adults of all sexual and gender identities engage in. Why do you conflate this behavior with LGBTQ?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-tim-pool-goes-to-war-with-twitter-over-groomer-controversy?utm_campaign=64510\">Twitter suspended journalist and podcaster Tim Pool<\/a> for using the word &#8220;groomers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pool deleted the offending tweet, saying that he didn&#8217;t &#8220;care enough about twitter for the tweet to stay up so whatever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Timcast\/status\/1551682980128690177\">He later tweeted<\/a>, &#8220;Twitter allows pedophiles to groom your kids on the platform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Timcast\/status\/1551683608091545601\">His next tweet read<\/a>, &#8220;from now on i [sic] just straight up call them pedophiles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some identity politics ideologues are now urging adoption of the term &#8220;minor-attracted people&#8221; to denote\u00a0pedophiles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In November, former\u00a0Old Dominion University\u00a0professor Allyn Walker, author of the book &#8220;A Long Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/johns-hopkins-center-child-sexual-abuse-hires-professor-minor-attracted-persons\">stepped down from the university<\/a>\u00a0following an uproar over comments the academic made in an interview about the book. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The euphemism &#8220;minor-attracted people&#8221;\u00a0is &#8220;less stigmatizing than other terms like pedophile,&#8221; Walker explained. &#8220;A lot of people when they hear the term pedophile, they automatically assume that it means a sex offender. And that isn&#8217;t true. And it leads to a lot of misconceptions about attractions toward minors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After being let go by\u00a0ODU, Walker, a transwoman who identifies as nonbinary, said, &#8220;My scholarship aims to prevent child sexual abuse.&#8221;\u00a0Johns Hopkins University&#8217;s\u00a0Moore Center for Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse announced in May that Walker was joining the center as a postdoctoral fellow.<\/p>\n<p>Transgender YouTuber and podcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MsBlaireWhite\/status\/1551937866376290309\">Blaire White mocked a perceived double standard in Twitter&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0treatment of the terms &#8220;groomers&#8221; and &#8220;minor-attracted people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sooo we&#8217;re not allowed to call anyone &#8216;groomers&#8217; on this app but pedophiles are allowed to call themselves &#8216;MAPs&#8217; (minor-attracted people),&#8221; White\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MsBlaireWhite\/status\/1551937866376290309\">tweeted<\/a>. &#8220;Just burn it all down at this point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has also suspended users for &#8220;deadnaming&#8221; transgender persons. For instance, Canadian author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/dave-rubin-banned-twitter-jordan-peterson-elliot-page-tweet-1721834\">Jordan Peterson was suspended last month<\/a> for calling Elliot Page by the transgender actor&#8217;s former name, Ellen Page.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson, a clinical psychologist, tweeted: &#8220;Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Rubin Report&#8221; podcast host and author Dave Rubin was then suspended on Twitter earlier this month for sharing a screenshot of Peterson&#8217;s tweet.<\/p>\n<p>During a book tour appearance in May,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pPAzLSF7wHY&#038;ab_channel=JordanBPeterson\">Peterson decried the intellectual confusion bred by gender identity ideology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Observing that supporters of Jackson&#8217;s Supreme Court nomination\u00a0&#8220;simultaneously proclaim that a woman is absolutely necessary for the highest position in the land \u2014 or one of them&#8221; while claiming not to &#8220;even know what a woman is,&#8221; he said he told Democrats:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Look, you can have one of those. You know, there&#8217;s either no distinction between a man and a woman, or it&#8217;s important that a woman is on the Supreme Court. But there&#8217;s no bloody way I&#8217;m giving you both, because I don&#8217;t even know how to do that.&#8217; I have no idea how to do that. Like, what am I supposed to do? Celebrate womanhood and simultaneously celebrate the fact that the differences between men and women are so trivial that they&#8217;re irrelevant and they can be changed at whim? That is insane. It violates the law of non-contradiction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Thursday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/inflation-covid-health-gross-domestic-product-economy-89cbfc145ad34a91679ffa43e617c896\">Associated Press, taking its cue from the Biden administration, obfuscated the common, long-standing definition of &#8220;recession,&#8221;<\/a> saying that while it&#8217;s &#8220;a common rule of thumb&#8221; that two straight quarters of economic contraction equal a recession, &#8220;it isn\u2019t an official definition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/white-house\/orwellian-administration-6-terms-biden-has-redefined-further-agenda-attack\">The White House website claims<\/a> that &#8220;official determinations of recessions and economists&#8217; assessment of economic activity are based on a holistic look at the data&#8221; factoring in a wide array of variables beyond negative growth rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The left and its allies in the media have long manipulated the meaning of words for political advantage. 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