{"id":575673,"date":"2021-06-28T16:06:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=575673"},"modified":"2021-06-28T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T20:06:11","slug":"were-just-going-to-do-it-and-make-it-normal-journalists-explain-how-they-force-pc-language-into-the-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/were-just-going-to-do-it-and-make-it-normal-journalists-explain-how-they-force-pc-language-into-the-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re Just Going To Do It And Make It Normal\u2019: Journalists Explain How They Force PC Language Into The Mainstream"},"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\">40<\/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%2Fwere-just-going-to-do-it-and-make-it-normal-journalists-explain-how-they-force-pc-language-into-the-mainstream%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=575673&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-783421.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A report published in an online publication for journalists on Thursday described how reporters and others in mass communications choose new categories of victims, craft politically correct language to replace traditional wording, and ensure the complete and total replacement of the old concept with the new, PC version.<\/p>\n<p>How do they do it? They just do it.<\/p>\n<p>The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2018\/feb\/12\/politifact-gains-nonprofit-status-move-poynter-ins\/\">parent organization<\/a> of PolitiFact, reports that the easiest way to create a revolution in language is through the top-down change of terms used by journalists in news stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have to talk about it. We\u2019re just going to do it and make it normal,\u201d said an editor quoted in the story.<\/p>\n<p>Poynter reported that the \u201csimple solution\u201d to assure intellectual and linguistic compliance is to \u201ccreate and enforce style guides.\u201d The story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/\">highlights<\/a> Kaitlyn Jakola, managing editor of a nonprofit online media outlet, who credited her ability to impose her word preference on the nation to the average reporter\u2019s conformity and lack of curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, [from] my experience as a copy editor, people just want to be told what to do. And 99.9% of journalists are not going to argue with you about whether they can use (a) word, unless they\u2019re persnickety or curmudgeons,\u201d Jakola <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/reporting-editing\/2021\/language-around-mental-health-like-gender-race-and-sexuality-needs-reconsideration\/\">concluded<\/a>. \u201cWe don\u2019t have to talk about it. We\u2019re just going to do it and make it normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve tackled it through newsroom policy. And every newsroom I\u2019ve been in, I\u2019ve said, \u2018Hey, we need to have a policy on the language we\u2019re going to use,\u2019\u201d Jakola told Poynter.org. And that\u2019s all that has been necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, academics seek to indoctrinate the undergraduates to create the next generation of language censors. Patti Wolter, a journalism professor at Northwestern University, said, \u201cAs a professor, I want my students to be the ones who develop style guides [about] this in their workplaces,\u201d or at least be \u201cthe voices in their workplaces that promote that kind of thinking and writing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy job is to train the next generation to be thinking that way,\u201d said Wolter.<\/p>\n<p>Her comments came in a story about changing the use of words related to mental illness, like \u201ccrazy\u201d and \u201cbonkers.\u201d Brandeis University, which has been well ahead of the curve, released its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandeis.edu\/parc\/accountability\/oppressivelanguagelist.html\">oppressive language list<\/a>\u201d to further this trend. For instance, the university recommends that all gender-specific nouns or adjectives (e.g., \u201cfemale-identifying\u201d) should be replaced with \u201cassigned female\/male at birth\u201d and \u201cladies and gentlemen\u201d with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandeis.edu\/parc\/accountability\/oppressivelanguagelist_identitybased.html\">folx<\/a>.\u201d The term \u201ctrigger warning\u201d left people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trigger-warnings-are-now-triggering-violent-language-brandeis-university-says\">triggered<\/a>, while phrases like \u201ckilling it\u201d and \u201ctake a shot\u201d are deemed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandeis.edu\/parc\/accountability\/oppressivelanguagelist_violent.html\">too violent <\/a>\u2014 criteria broad enough to indict everyone from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ic7NqP_YGlg\">Lin Manuel Miranda<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lsarsour\/status\/1106906324531470336\">Linda Sarsour<\/a> to the federal government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdhhs.gov\/news\/press-releases\/2021\/03\/16\/richard-petty-covid-19-vaccines-you-have-spot-take-your-shot\">COVID-19 vaccination campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The same top-down process holds for which phrases a network will emphasize, such as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/read-less-about-white-rage-more-about-not-losing-wars-hillbilly-elegy-author-rips-top-u-s-general\">white rage<\/a>.\u201d CNN and MSNBC have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1408409565557886977\">used<\/a> the phrase 82 times since January 1, 66 of them this month, according to Grabien Media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.2368421052632\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Witness the birth of this new expression, \u201cwhite rage\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Data via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrabienMedia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GrabienMedia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g9raVYn9OB\">pic.twitter.com\/g9raVYn9OB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1408409565557886977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The greatest wordsmiths said that the politicization of language leads to a flattening and impoverishing of the written word.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing,\u201d George Orwell warned in his famous essay on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.orwellfoundation.com\/the-orwell-foundation\/orwell\/essays-and-other-works\/politics-and-the-english-language\/\">Politics and the English Language<\/a>,\u201d because \u201cpolitical speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.\u201d Where this is not true, \u201cit will generally be found that the writer is some kind of rebel, expressing his private opinions, and not a \u2018party line\u2019. Orthodoxy, of whatever colour, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to rounds of misleading redefinition, the English language \u201cbecomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration,\u201d wrote Orwell.<\/p>\n<p>Readers must also demand more of journalists and reward writers who use accurate, precise, and clear English. Until this again becomes the norm, the reader must consume with great discretion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to politics, we might be better off being more skeptical and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/judicial-watch-michigan-foia-curiosity-candor\/\">digging deeper<\/a>\u00a0to understand the truth for ourselves. That\u2019s because what is said is often the opposite of reality,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/media-politics-words\/\">wrote<\/a> Jackie Gingrich Cushman in The American Spectator. \u201cMy point is that, when discussing media and politics, be wary of words; they are often used to protest and portray the opposite of what you might be expecting. Consider this a word to the wise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The best advice on reading the English language could be summarized in the Latin phrase, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/caveat%20lector\">Caveat lector<\/a><\/em>.<\/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<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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