{"id":1825428,"date":"2023-01-26T16:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1825428"},"modified":"2023-01-26T16:23:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:23:45","slug":"the-poor-the-mentally-ill-the-french-whats-with-the-morons-at-the-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-poor-the-mentally-ill-the-french-whats-with-the-morons-at-the-associated-press\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Poor, The Mentally Ill, The French\u2019: What\u2019s With The Morons At The Associated Press?"},"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\">30<\/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-poor-the-mentally-ill-the-french-whats-with-the-morons-at-the-associated-press%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=1825428&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-->\n<p>Have you ever heard the tale about the French, the mentally ill and the poor?<\/p>\n<p>Well, not in the pages of the Associated Press, you didn\u2019t. According to the AP\u2019s official Style Guide, all three of those terms are offensive and \u201cdehumanizing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing \u2018the\u2019 labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses,\u201d the AP\u2019s Style Guide tweeted. \u201cAnd use these descriptions only when clearly relevant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This logic explains why you should refer the French to as \u201cpeople experiencing Frenchness\u201d Maybe? \u201cpeople with Frenchness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it is, it\u2019s all a bit silly \u2014 but it is part of the Left\u2019s larger trend to dominate and transform language to meet their goals.<\/p>\n<p>Before we touch upon that, let\u2019s ponder what a Frenchman might think about this. This author isn\u2019t one, so he reached out to the French Embassy representing France in Washington, D.C., to find out if the term \u201cthe French\u201d Is offensive<\/p>\n<p>They haven\u2019t responded thus far.<\/p>\n<p>Readers might enjoy some reactions from the absurd tweets until then.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Shapiro, Emeritus Editor at Daily Wire, responded. \u201cI agree, these days we probably should label \u2018the college-educated\u2019 people with mental illnesses instead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said, \u201cAlso, we should stop calling people \u2018the French\u2019 and instead call them \u2018people suffering from cheese-eating surrender monkeyness,\u2019\u201d Referring to a line \u201cThe Simpsons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We should also stop calling people &#8220;people&#8221;. &#8220;the French&#8221; Instead, call them &#8220;people suffering from cheese-eating surrender monkeyness.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BmWqBmGabK\">pic.twitter.com\/BmWqBmGabK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1618686467961929729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rebel News&#8217; Ezra Levant pointed out that the AP has no problem referring a group of people to itself. \u201cthe,\u201d As in \u201cthe unvaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No you don\u2019t. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5VAH6izWj3\">https:\/\/t.co\/5VAH6izWj3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GOcsevad12\">pic.twitter.com\/GOcsevad12<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ezra Levant \ud83c\udf41\ud83d\ude9b (@ezralevant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ezralevant\/status\/1618677591979986945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This nonsense is rooted in political correctness. Writers should care about being exact and telling the truth, rather than worrying about whether or not they offend.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the AP doing this garbage either. The Biden administration calls illegal aliens what they are, rather than calling them illegal aliens. \u201cpeople who are coming irregularly to migrate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They crossed the border illegally, and they are now illegal aliens. One would hope that the Biden administration is more concerned with stopping those people from entering the country in the first place \u2014 not whether or not word choice hurts their feelings.<\/p>\n<p>The AP should also be concerned about reporting accurate information. They aren\u2019t though. They want to push the agenda of social justice warriors, who want to destroy the English language to transform culture.<\/p>\n<p>They sound just like Michael Scott. \u201cThe Office.\u201d Scott was also puzzled by Oscar&#8217;s Mexican-sounding name. The \u201cworld\u2019s best boss\u201d Was under the impression \u201cMexican\u201d It was an offensive term.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Michael Scott, of course, is a moron, but doesn\u2019t realize it. The same goes for editors at the AP.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you hear the story about the poor, the mentally ill, and the French? Well, not in the pages of the Associated Press, you didn\u2019t. According to the AP\u2019s official Style Guide, all three of those terms are offensive and \u201cdehumanizing.\u201d \u201cWe recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing \u2018the\u2019 labels such as the poor, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1825431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6962,6084,12172,16621,16620,9410,4604,7656],"class_list":["post-1825428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-the","tag-french","tag-ill","tag-mentally","tag-morons","tag-poor","tag-press","tag-whats"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825428","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\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1825431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}