Back before The Simpsons conquered television, Matt Groening’s Life in Hell comic strip would publish a yearly “List of Forbidden Words” strip to start the year. Now Democratic think tank Third Way, realizing that their brand is less popular than Akbar & Jeff’s Cryogenics Hut, have produced their own list of words Democrats should forbid themselves from saying if they ever want to win back the normies.
privilege Privilege Violence (as in “environmental violence”) Dialoguing Othering Triggering Microaggression/assault/invalidation Progressive stack Centering Safe space Holding space Body shaming Subverting norms Systems of oppression Critical theory Cultural appropriation Postmodernism Overton Window Heuristic Existential threat to [climate, the planet, democracy, the economy] Radical transparency Small ‘d’ democracy Barriers to participation Stakeholders The unhoused Food insecurity Housing insecurity Person who immigrated Birthing person/inseminated person Pregnant people Chest feeding Cisgender Deadnaming Heteronormative Patriarchy LGBTQIA+ Latinx BIPOC Allyship Intersectionality Minoritized communities Justice-involved Carceration Incarcerated people Involuntary confinement
Not a bad list, though a few of those (Overton window, heuristic, existential threat in reference to enormous objects like dinosaur-killing asteroids or the U.S. national debt) are still useful in other contexts. But there are a whole lot of additions needed:
See, the problem with the modern woke mind-virus, social justice-infected Democrat Party doesn’t begin, or end, with their obfuscating academic jargon. Their need to Orwellize the language is a result of the deeply unpopular, racist, bigoted, anti-borders, anti-reality policies social justice democrats have been promulgating. Their language is bad because their ideas are bad.
Their ideas of discrimination on the basis of race, misandry, open borders, radical transsexism and pro-crime policies will remain deeply unpopular no matter how many times they try changing the names.