10 Politically Correct But Factually False Words And Phrases To Stop Using Immediately

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 10 Politically Correct But Factually False Words And Phrases To Stop Using Immediately

To counter the left’s lies, conservatives have to use words that accurately reflect the truth — not words that actively mean the opposite.

By Elle Reynolds
April 19, 2021

“The worst thing one can do with words is to surrender them,” George Orwell wrote in his 1946 essay, “Politics and the English Language.” Orwell protested not just sloppy use of language, but intentional misuse of language for political purposes.

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,” he said. “Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.”

Politicians and dishonest media propagandists today use inaccurate language to frame narratives and foster a leftist perspective. Inadvertently, even well-meaning audiences sometimes internalize this language and end up propagating the very ideas and framing they fundamentally reject. Don’t let that be you.

In every debate, it’s vital to start by defining your terms. If conservatives want to counter the radical left’s agenda, we have to begin by using words that accurately reflect what we mean — not words that actively mean the opposite. Here are just 10.

1. ‘Mainstream Media’

The public communication cartel headed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, CBS, and MSNBC does not represent mainstream Americans. Earlier this year, Axios (another culprit of heavy-handed political spin) reported that 56 percent of Americans believe “Journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations.”

Big Media has engaged in deception through false and misleading “reporting” on Georgia’s election laws, the trespass and unrest at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, and more. Embracing “Russiagate” and the allegations of the Steele dossier against President Trump was one indicator of crumbling credibility. The cover-up of the Hunter Biden laptop story just before the 2020 presidential election was another.

Even more recently, CBS’s “60 Minutes” invented a scandal about Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, while giving minuscule coverage to New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s cover-up of COVID-19 nursing home deaths his policies caused.

Leftist propaganda outlets who are running cover for Democrats and spreading inaccurate opposition research on conservatives don’t deserve to be called mainstream. Instead, use “Big Media,” “corporate media,” or — as DeSantis says — “smear merchants.”

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[Sled Dog]

4. ‘Democracy,’ When You Mean ‘Republic’

Not a republic.   A republic is a structural balance between the poor, the aristocracy and the King.  In the US this was achieved by the House, representing the people, the Senate representing the States, and the President.   The US ceased to be a republic when the Senate became an elected body representing the commons.   The US has two houses of commons.

Not a democracy, not when the Rodents openly steal elections and the other party meekly accepts, as has been happening for half a century or more.

The US is a fruit bat nibbling on bananas.

[Fishrrman]

2. ‘Gender,’ When You Mean ‘Sex’
3. ‘Sex-Reassignment Surgery’
4. ‘Democracy,’ When You Mean ‘Republic’
5. ‘Abortion Doctors’ and ‘Abortion Clinics’
6. ‘Antidiscrimination’
7. ‘Undocumented Immigrant’
8. ‘Equity’ Or ‘Equality,’ When You Mean The Other
9. ‘Cisgender’
10. ‘Pro-Choice’

[Sled Dog]

I say "sex" when I'm referring to the division between male and female people.   I use the word "gender" in it's correct form, to refer to the assignments language usage makes to words, which isn't that big a deal in English.   English has as it's definite article the word "the", which is neutral, unlike the Romance languages which, in French, uses "la" for female nouns and "le" for male nouns.  "La bateau" is "the boat", for example.

But the Rodents are busy as carpenter cockroaches, I swear.   I've been informed that the use of the pronoun "they" is correct usage for singular persons, instead of the proper "he", "she" and "it".

Ah...no.   "They" refers, always and forever, to persons in the plural.   

People who murder babies are neither doctors nor mothers, they are butchers on the one hand, and incubators seeking to be prematurely emptied on the other, aka murderers and murderesses....see how the concept of "murder" comes in two genders to describe the sex of the one doing the murdering?   "Murderer" and "Murderess".   Like "Actor" and "Actress", not "Female Actor".  I stopped watching the Academy Awards DECADES before it became politically correct to turn them off, because of their insistence on being murderers and murderesses of the English language.

Equity is how much money your home is worth minus the remaining debt on the mortgage.   

Equality is something people DEMANDING equity do not deserve and cannot earn.   I wonder if "equity" has gender?

[jmyrlefuller]

May I submit my recommendation of 'valid'.

I see this all the time on social media, the description of dubious things as 'valid.' Like "if you are trans, you are valid." Or "self-diagnosed autism is valid." (Only if you're a woman, though.)