{"id":1589824,"date":"2022-08-04T18:47:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T22:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589824"},"modified":"2022-08-04T18:48:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T22:48:17","slug":"newspeak-how-merriam-webster-is-redefining-words-to-fit-a-leftist-agenda-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newspeak-how-merriam-webster-is-redefining-words-to-fit-a-leftist-agenda-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspeak: How Merriam-Webster Is Redefining Words To Fit A Leftist Agenda \u2013 Part 2"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fnewspeak-how-merriam-webster-is-redefining-words-to-fit-a-leftist-agenda-part-2%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=1589824&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--><p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/the-matt-walsh-show\">Matt Walsh<\/a> continues his quest to discover <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/videos\/what-is-a-woman\">the meaning<\/a> of the word \u2018woman,\u2019 it appears the editors of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/\">Merriam-Webster<\/a> dictionary have made it a little more difficult for him to find a clear answer.<\/p>\n<p>The dictionary recently <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWalshBlog\/status\/1549382790952656899\">expanded the definition<\/a> of the word \u2018female\u2019 to accommodate transgender activists. Just another example of the left\u2019s drive to alter reality by rewriting the English language.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Daily Wire analysis, Merriam-Webster is modifying words and phrases at a fast clip to align with far-left sensibilities. The computer analysis compared the current dictionary with one from January 2020 \u2013 just predating the COVID pandemic and the rush of protests driven by Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a sample of some newly added abbreviations, words, and redefinitions from the middle section of the alphabet \u2013 including changing the definition of the word \u201cgirl,\u201d adding the term \u201cfolx,\u201d and making democratic socialism more positive.<\/p>\n<p>democratic socialism was made more positive with examples like \u201cMight it be better to chuck conservatism and liberalism altogether in favor of something like democratic socialism?\u201d and \u201cDemocratic socialism is growing in popularity among millennials.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>decolonize went from \u201cto free from colonial status\u201d to a Critical Race Theory-infused essay, like, \u201cTo free from the dominating influence of a colonizing power especially: to identify, challenge, and revise or replace assumptions, ideas, values, and practices that reflect a colonizer\u2019s dominating influence and especially a Eurocentric dominating influence.\u201d Examples include, \u201cA decolonized curriculum would bring questions of class, caste, race, gender, ability and sexuality into dialogue with each other, instead of pretending that there is some kind of generic identity we all share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>drag went from \u201centertainment in which performers dressed as members of the opposite sex caricature gender stereotypes through the use of often outrageous costumes\u201d to a discussion including a quote from RuPaul and one about \u201ca conversation within the LGBTQ community regarding trans, female, and nonbinary drag performers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>drag king went from people \u201clampooning\u201d to series of examples including \u201cblind, non-binary drag king Totio Bone showcases their signature skills of song, dance, and audio description.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>eugenics, which was widely practiced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-liberals-who-loved-eugenics\/2017\/03\/08\/0cc5e9a0-0362-11e7-b9fa-ed727b644a0b_story.html\">liberals<\/a> in the early 1900s, was edited to remove a quote from conservative Dinesh D\u2019Souza critical of \u201ctechno-utopian\u201d Silicon Valley types who may use technology to give wealthy people the ability to improve their children\u2019s genes.<\/p>\n<p>family man morphed from a \u201cman with a wife and children\u201d to \u201ca man with a spouse and child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Added fat-shame, as in \u201cThe author, a doctoral student therapist, discusses her experience with a clinical supervisor who fat-shamed a client during supervision. \u2014 Melissa A. Meulman.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Added folx, \u201cused especially to explicitly signal the inclusion of groups commonly marginalized. Having women teach other women matters. Women of color. Transgender women. Disabled women. Gender-nonconforming folx. It matters because in a sea of educators who look alike, students who stand out can find themselves adrift.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>female was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/female\">expanded<\/a> to include: \u201chaving a gender identity that is the opposite of male\u201d<\/p>\n<p>gay can now also mean \u201cof, relating to, or intended for people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Added gen\u200bder-flu\u200bid: \u201cof, relating to, or being a person whose gender identity is not fixed. Gender-fluid individuals prefer to remain flexible about their gender(s). Some dress in ways that reflect both genders at the same time, while others may express one gender one day and another gender another day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>gentrification became more negative, adding: \u201cThe construction of luxury housing and gentrification of neighborhoods is pushing families out of communities they have called home for years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>girl added \u201ca person whose gender identity is female,\u201d illustrated with the quote \u201cNarrator Taylor Meskimen draws listeners into the emotional life of Zenobia July, a tech-savvy trans girl who\u2019s facing a new year at a new middle school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>gypsy went from \u201csometimes offensive\u201d to \u201cusually offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Added head\u200bscarf: \u201ca fabric covering for the head worn especially by women,\u201d \u2026 young, well-educated European Muslim women who wear the headscarf as a conscious, articulate choice \u2026<\/p>\n<p>homosexual is \u201cnow sometimes disparaging + offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>identify went from 56 words to 340 to accommodate the likes of a new sample sentence that said \u201cOf the high school students who participated, 77% identified as female, 20% identified as male, 2% identified as nonbinary.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>implicit was changed to include references to racism and \u201cimplicit bias.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>immunocompromised now includes the example quote, <em>\u201cFear of vaccines doesn\u2019t just potentially harm the children whose parents forgo vaccination but also other kids, as well as immunocompromised adults.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>lockdown was changed to say that in addition to being imposed in prisons, it may also refer to \u201ca temporary condition imposed by governmental authorities (as during the outbreak of an epidemic disease) in which people are required to stay in their homes and refrain from or limit activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>junkie, used as a reference to a drug addict, is now \u201cdisparaging + offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>lily-white can now mean \u201clacking racial diversity,\u201d as in \u201cMost disappointingly, the main cast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Matt Walsh continues his quest to discover the meaning of the word \u2018woman,\u2019 it appears the editors of the Merriam-Webster dictionary have made it a little more difficult for him to find a clear answer. The dictionary recently expanded the definition of the word \u2018female\u2019 to accommodate transgender activists. Just another example of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1589868,"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-1589824","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\/1589824","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1589868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}