{"id":1925829,"date":"2023-05-06T20:13:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T00:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elle-purnell-conservatives-won-the-word-woke-now-its-time-to-reclaim-accurate-language-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2023-05-06T20:15:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T00:15:15","slug":"elle-purnell-conservatives-won-the-word-woke-now-its-time-to-reclaim-accurate-language-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elle-purnell-conservatives-won-the-word-woke-now-its-time-to-reclaim-accurate-language-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Elle Purnell: Conservatives took &#8220;woke.&#8221; 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\">20<\/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%2Felle-purnell-conservatives-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=1925829&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, a once-respected linguistic guide for journalists, has 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<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWoke\u201d was originally popularized by left-wing proponents 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<h3>A Rare Win for Conservatives in the War of Words<\/h3>\n<p>The 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<p>While there are times individual ideologies require a more specific description \u2014 queer theory, or socialism, for example \u2014 \u201cwoke\u201d is a completely fair and often helpful term to use when speaking generally about the coalition of people on the left who want to see meritocracy replaced by identity politics. As my colleague Samuel Mangold-Lenett noted recently in these pages, \u201cwhat other slogany-sounding word really works as a catch-all for what leftism has become?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey lost complete control of the English language,\u201d he added, \u201cand the word they used to indicate their radicalism to one another is being used to expose that radicalism to the rest of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Defending the Legitimacy of Disfavored-but-Accurate Terms<\/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. From headlines to search engines to literal dictionaries, activists manipulate the tools of debate. 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 Injected by Woke Ideologues is Long<\/h3>\n<p>Take the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elle-purnell-conservatives-won-the-word-woke-now-its-time-to-reclaim-accurate-language-everywhere\/\" title=\"Elle Purnell: Conservatives took \"woke.\" Let's take back accurate language.\">nonsense phrase \u201cgender-affirming care<\/a>,\u201d for example. The diction dictators have effectively standardized the term, to the point where even people who disapprove of such procedures will glibly repeat it. But nothing about the phrase is tethered to reality.<\/p>\n<p>The same goes for using improper pronouns to describe sexually confused people: calling a man \u201cshe\u201d or a woman \u201che.\u201d Doing so indulges a delusion. Having physical reality on your side does little good if you concede it away by the very words you use.<\/p>\n<p>The list of nonsense words that woke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share Share Article on Facebook Share Article on Twitter Share Article on Truth Social Copy Article Link Share Article via Email 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1925830,"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":[547],"tags":[18696,4539,16683,6129,7640,16682,5558],"class_list":["post-1925829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-accurate","tag-conservatives","tag-elle","tag-language","tag-lets","tag-purnell","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\/1925829","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=1925829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}