chapotraphouse

Dems again failing to see the forest for the trees. It's not their language people find objectionable, it's that they use this language and do fucking nothing to make it seem like they understand why this language has been elevated.

For example, if you ran on a platform of making housing an entitlement, and had a clear vision for reaching that goal, no one would give a shit if you said "houseless person" instead of "homeless person". Hell, if you got everyone in this country housed I don't think anyone would be too mad what you called them.

So obviously Third Way is evil in general and this list is evil specifically, but the idea of blacklisting the phrases "food insecurity" and "housing insecurity" is such a baffling, ludicrous assertion, way beyond the bargain bin chud shit that a lot of this is.

Also, "stakeholder" blacklisted? What??? So not only can we not talk about the consequences of capitalism, we can't even describe a formal classification of relationships capitalists have to companies using a word that any economist or journalist would use?

Are we not allowed to call a CEO a CEO anymore because it will be taken as a death threat?

So much for the tolerant right, always censoring us.

Several of these are the kind of rhetorical substitutes we got in lieu of any systemic change.

Liberals: “Yeah we might not be able to give you real support but we can give you lip service. Wait, hang on, guess we can’t do the lip service anymore.”

Meanwhile chuds hooting and hollering over this kind of shit because they believe in what is probably best described as a stupid kind of magic and believe these words are imbued with confusing and terrifying energies.

HAHA vulgar and reactionary tailism as always! I expect nothing less from Third Way. Oh btw if you think this is fucked up you are engaging in purity politics and you are the reason fascism is winning

“The Democratic Party brand is toxic across the country at this point with way too many people — enough that there’s no way for us to win a governing majority without changing that,” Erickson said. “Part of the problem was that we were using words that literally no normal people used — that we were sticking to messages that were so overly scripted that they basically sounded like nothing.”

People are going to correctly identify that your messages of justice are vapid if you do exactly nothing to actually meaningfully change things for the better and stymie any real efforts to that effect

“We are doing our best to get Democrats to talk like normal people and stop talking like they’re leading a seminar at Antioch,” says Matt Bennett, Third Way’s executive vice president of public affairs.

The reason they don't sound like normal human beings isn't that they're using precise and academic languages to describe the condition of minorities, you dimwitted animal. They aren't proper human beings, so they can't talk properly.

As I write that, I know this removed knows this is hermeneutical injustice. They don't want marginalised groups to have the terms to describe their oppression. The sad part is how many of those marginalised actually bought into their relatively short-lived theatre of giving a shit.

calling your think tank third way is a bit on the nose

I mean, on one hand I can sympathize with ideas like learning to de-jargon our language when speaking with non-leftists.

But not in a tailism way, because these pains are almost intuitive to anyone who has ever faced any discrimination…like ever. I never heard of the phrase “reserve army of labor” but I’ve been muscled out of the job market and struggled with getting jobs even before I learned what that term was.

if gavin newsom says the n word enough times maybe he'll be able to steal all the voters from david duke in 2028

i can think of a word that we shouldn't use: "mercy".

Once again taking the wrong message. Yet Repubs roll back rights and both parties committ genocide and that is NEVER described as toxic. Smithsonian will remove history of slavery and soon history will be seen as toxic language because too many americans suck off an anti reality doomsday cult

existential threat

if we just don't mention them they'll go away! genius solution!

Tankie suspiciously absent from this list

Oh cool, reminds me when in Germany’s last general election the only “progressive”, “leftist” party, Die Linke, told its deputies not to address issues such as migration, because it’s too risky. Well…

The overton window shifted outside of itself

Looks like they are starting to read the room, and in usual lib shit they read the wrong lesson.

They realized that when you run a progressive except for Palestine stance, you look like a massive hypocritical piece of shit and everyone can tell your full of shit. So they dropped the progressive part and kept the pro genocide stance.

Can't say cis. What is this, x dot com the everything app?

I'm so glad the resistance is here to fight fascism (and not in that dirty violent foreign way)

Turd way

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Why didn't they add "blacklist" to the blacklist?

There are a handful of terms that seem like a good idea to ban in official communication because they're likely to derail the message due to being prone to misunderstanding (birthing person, holding space, dialoguing, stakeholders, othering, etc.) but this list is just a means to allow the Dems to cease pretending to be progressive.