{"id":1925299,"date":"2023-05-05T21:27:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T01:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservatives-won-the-word-woke-now-its-time-to-reclaim-accurate-language-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T21:30:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T01:30:05","slug":"conservatives-won-the-word-woke-now-its-time-to-reclaim-accurate-language-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservatives-won-the-word-woke-now-its-time-to-reclaim-accurate-language-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives claimed &#8216;woke.&#8217; Let&#8217;s take back accurate language."},"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\">16<\/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%2Fconservatives-won-the-word-woke-now-its-time-to-reclaim-accurate-language-everywhere%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=1925299&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--><h2>The AP Stylebook Concedes &#8220;Woke&#8221; to Conservatives<\/h2>\n<p>The Associated Press Stylebook, once a respected linguistic guide for journalists, has conceded the definition of the word \u201cwoke\u201d to conservatives. In an update, the AP instructs writers to \u201cuse quotes around the slang term.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Origins of &#8220;Woke&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWoke\u201d was originally popularized by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-touts-social-spending-bill-in-moderate-dem-districts\/\" title=\"White House Touts Social Spending Bill In Moderate Dem Districts\">left-wing proponents<\/a> of identity politics to flatteringly refer to their own \u201cenlightenment or awakening about issues of racial and other forms of social justice,\u201d as the AP explains. Conservatives have used it to describe those same people and their ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Those ideas more often than not, demand revolutionary social changes that prejudge people based on their secondary physical characteristics. If, like the vast majority of America until about five seconds ago, you think such identitarian prejudices are a bad thing, you might use the word \u201cwoke\u201d in a less than fawning manner. Apparently, the AP\u2019s staff can\u2019t handle that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AP&#8217;s Concession is a Rare Win for Conservatives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AP\u2019s concession of the word is hilariously thin-skinned, but it\u2019s also a rare win for conservatives in the war of words. Just by describing woke behavior as such, we\u2019ve held a bit of ground against the unhinged language police who are mad that the right is using their terminology against them. Unintentionally, it seems we\u2019ve ended up with command of the word altogether, if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disneylands-snow-white-ride-sparks-leftist-outrage-over-lack-of-consent-in-cartoon-kiss\/\" title=\"Disneyland\u2019s \u2018Snow White\u2019 Ride Sparks Leftist Outrage Over \u2018Lack Of Consent\u2019 In Cartoon Kiss\">left-wing outlets<\/a> like the AP are henceforth refusing to use it.<\/p>\n<h3>Defining Terms in the Language War<\/h3>\n<p>The apparatus of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warning-for-america-the-four-steps-of-marxist-takeover-were-activated-in-2020\/\" title=\"Warning for America: The Four Steps of Marxist Takeover Were Activated in 2020\">left-wing media outlets<\/a>, cultural celebrities, and tech platforms that drives our modern discourse has a majority share in defining the language we use. In any debate, the first step is defining your terms \u2014 if your definitions are off, you\u2019ve already lost.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why it\u2019s incumbent upon conservatives to be intentional, honest, and straightforward with the words we use. That includes defending the legitimacy of disfavored-but-accurate terms (like \u201cwoke,\u201d or \u201cwoman\u201d) and refusing to use inaccurate language.<\/p>\n<h3>The List of Nonsense Words<\/h3>\n<p>The list of nonsense words that woke ideologues are injecting into common parlance is long. For starters, here\u2019s a list of \u201c10 Politically Correct But Factually False Words And Phrases To Stop Using Immediately,\u201d and a follow-up list of eight more.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gender-affirming care<\/li>\n<li>Anti-vaxxer<\/li>\n<li>Sexual preference<\/li>\n<li>Assault rifle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By describing woke ideologies and their fruits at face value, conservatives felled the left\u2019s self-conferred monopoly on how, when, and where the term could be used. But the same people policing the word \u201cwoke\u201d are appointing themselves the arbiters of the rest of the English language, too.<\/p>\n<p>For those of us who prefer our words to reflect reality, there is nothing to be gained by good-naturedly going along with linguistic charades. On the other hand, there is the entire discourse to be lost.<\/p>\n<p><em>Elle Purnell is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. Follow her work on Twitter @_etreynolds.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press Stylebook, a once-respected linguistic guide for journalists, conceded the definition of the word \u201cwoke\u201d to conservatives on Thursday, in an update instructing writers to \u201cuse quotes around the slang term.\u201d \u201cWoke\u201d was originally popularized by left-wing proponents of identity politics to flatteringly refer to their own \u201cenlightenment or awakening about issues of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":1925300,"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":[546],"tags":[18696,4308,4539,6129,7640,5558],"class_list":["post-1925299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-accurate","tag-claimed","tag-conservatives","tag-language","tag-lets","tag-woke"],"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\/1925299","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\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}