Was It Something I Said? (Left-wing think tank urges Dems to drop these 45 terms that turn off normies)

ThirdWay.org ^ | Published August 22, 2025 | Third Way

[ClearCase_guy]

Key takeaway: Hide your beliefs by dropping your real vocabulary. Sneak up on the normies by pretending to talk like regular people.

[Vaduz]

Democrats are aware that the words and phrases we use can be profoundly alienating.

Fear of ass noises

[V_TWIN]

For anybody that bought into this idiocy the only explanation has got to be mental illness........WTF man.....SMH

[gibsonguy]

Some of the rats are beginning to figure out they need to hide who they are again. They got cocky and said what they believe out loud and it cost them in 24.

[sonofagun]

And here is the key: “When we use words people don’t understand, studies show that the part of their brain that signals distrust becomes more active, undermining our ability to reach them.”

The leftists really think they are smarter than the average Joe, maybe because of their dumb downed academic accomplishments?

[Falcon4.0]

Indeed.

[rlmorel]

Well said, FRiend. That is it exactly.

Exactly.

[ClearCase_guy]

I’ve been making fun of the way leftwing academics talk for a long time — A hermaneutic solution cannot be found within the systemic reification of patriarchal manifestation of oppositional compliance to the matrilinear coalescence of substantive accretion.

They think that stuff makes them look smart. But even they don’t know what they’re saying.

[Common Sense 101]

I prefer they stop talking completely...

[GOPJ]

But, but, but - these are the words that make average IQ liberals ‘look smart’. The insiders ‘buzz words’.

If you don’t know them you’re not one of the ‘cool kids’ and not in the club. But if you’re not allowed to use the secret words and YOU try to talk you’ll look like a fool. Or stupid or not cool. And that’s where the MSNBC idiots are now.

Gads they’re gonna hate giving up their little ‘I’m so superior’ buzz words. They’ve got nothing to say - it’s gonna be fun watching them.

[Navy Patriot]

The “Third Way” is concerned that their fellow Communists, Marxists and Criminals won’t Lie as well as they could.

[Libloather]

Rush’s Undeniable Truth of Life: Words Mean Things

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2021/04/21/undeniable-truth-of-life-words-mean-things/

[al baby]

unaliving

[thecodont]

Unpack

[rlmorel]

Yep.

Out of all of those, I only found four that I would keep:

Dialoguing:
Reserved only for cartoons or movies where the bad guy is shooting his mouth off in preparation to having their ass handed to him because he spewed from his pie-hole too long. Perfect and funny description as in “I got him only because he was dialoguing and bragging how I was weak, and how he was going to rule the world!” Keep it, because we can use it when we vanquish one of them.

Overton Window:
This is a useful term to describe something. They dislike it because it explains one of their key mechanisms to change, and we like it because it describes one of their key mechanisms to change! Keep it.

Heuristic:
Useful to describe certain scientific related things like junk email filters and such. Keep it.

Existential threat to [climate, the planet, democracy, the economy]:
This is a very useful description is used appropriately. However, Leftists use it to describe everything from losing your car keys to anything Trump does. If they used it to describe a meteor the size of Long Island hitting the Earth, or a full-on nuclear exchange, that would be fine and I use it in the correct context when I use it, so I say...keep it.

[bigbob]

May as well pass out muzzles, democrats won’t be able to communicate.

[bluescape]

I think this is kind of huge. The dim’s ideas and ideology both stink, but they can’t admit the failures cause that would suggest Conservatives ideas have merit. Just this simple step admitting that these stupid names and phrases are horses**t or at least making them look bad is one they had to be dragged to kicking and screaming.

It’s not a true awakening or epiphany on their part but it’s fun to see them have to admit even this much.

[daniel1212]

Quite a list, but to add some to it, and in one paragraph, there is this:

"...intersections with race, ethnicity, coloniality, class and ability, the sex/gender system of oppression has long served as a taxonomizing apparatus. And yet, the literary, in league with anticolonial, civil rights and LGBTQ social movements,...animates the liberatory potential of imagining embodied relations otherwise... representations of gender and sexuality can leverage critiques against normativity...Taking our transnational cue from subjugated knowledges and intersectional epistemologies, we’ll constellate the diverging genealogies and methodologies...
Against the traffic of binary opposition, we’ll index the possibilities of intimacy and performativity... As a class collective, our aim is to read and reread as well as write and rewrite texts that interrogate and complicate how gender and sexuality, as contested sites of pleasure and pain, are embodied and experienced."

This counts toward the methods requirement for the major. Prerequisite: ENGL 103 or 104. Open only to first-year and sophomore students.

Author is Brianna Thompson, who teaches courses in American women’s literature, queer theory and utopias/Afrofuturism at Kenyon college (founded by Episcopal Bishop in 1824). Course is Reading and Writing Gender and Sexuality ENGL 214, https://www.kenyon.edu/academics/departments-and-majors/english/academic-program-requirements/courses-in-english/

Such a feminist wordcrafter in wokeducation, warring against what God ordained, and who is employed from a college founded in 1824 by Episcopal Bishop Philander Chase, be has a potential candidate ("Brianna Thompson") for the office of implementation of WOKE policies under the auspices of a Council of Transexuality.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“Stakeholder” is my favorite most hated Lefty-speak word.