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Dictionary.com Adds "Microaggression," "Gender-Fluid" to Definitions
Pundit Press ^ | 5/8/15 | Aurelius

Posted on 05/08/2015 7:25:58 AM PDT by rightistight

Dictionary.com has added “microaggression” and “gender-fluid,” among other words, to its new list of definitions this year.

In an official post on Dictionary.com’s blog from Wednesday, the site explains, “In our latest update to the dictionary, we added more than a thousand new and modified definitions including gaming words like esports, permadeath and completionist, terms to prepare you for the 2016 elections like slacktivism, and gender-related terms agender, bigender, and gender-fluid.”

What are the definitions of these words? Dictionary.com lays them all out:

“Microaggression: a subtle but offensive comment or action directed at a minority or other nondominant group that is often unintentional or unconsciously reinforces a stereotype.

“Gender-fluid: relating to a person whose gender identity or gender expression is not fixed and shifts over time or depending on the situation.”

There are also words like “bigender” and “agender,” for people who apparently have no gender or have multiple genders at the same time.

(Excerpt) Read more at thepunditpress.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: microaggression
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1 posted on 05/08/2015 7:25:58 AM PDT by rightistight
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To: rightistight

Good Lord stop this thing I want off


2 posted on 05/08/2015 7:27:36 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: rightistight
Note carefully the definition of microaggression:
“Microaggression: a subtle but offensive comment or action directed at a minority or other nondominant group that is often unintentional or unconsciously reinforces a stereotype.
It explicitly defines the act so that only "minorities or other nondominant groups" can be victims, much like "racism" is defined so that racism against whites is not really "racism".
3 posted on 05/08/2015 7:30:58 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: rightistight

Control the language and you control the mind.


4 posted on 05/08/2015 7:31:47 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: al baby

Note that it isn’t possible, under these daffynitions, to “microaggress” a person of the majority (an oxymoron of itself, because each person is obviously a minority).

In purportedly decrying crude tribalism, these liberals simply affirm it more strongly. Are they pledged to stop when the majority tribe du jour ceases to be so? (I thought not....)


5 posted on 05/08/2015 7:32:38 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Question begging, of course, but again it is so WHITE to use logic.


6 posted on 05/08/2015 7:33:22 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: rightistight

How can anyone be ambiguous about gender?


7 posted on 05/08/2015 7:33:27 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe..)
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To: rightistight

The English language in Looking Glass Land meets Idiocracy.


8 posted on 05/08/2015 7:34:01 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: dfwgator

Determined minds can still bust out of these shackles. There always is a saner time and frame of reference.


9 posted on 05/08/2015 7:34:43 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: rightistight

How about those insane “cis” terms that the freaks invented to avoid saying that normal people are normal?


10 posted on 05/08/2015 7:35:10 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: cardinal4

By purposing it, perversely


11 posted on 05/08/2015 7:35:15 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

But the masses will fall into line. There will always be free-thinkers.


12 posted on 05/08/2015 7:35:28 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

If the masses are evangelized on God and not folly, they will rebel.


13 posted on 05/08/2015 7:36:43 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: rightistight

Microagression is replacing the word racism? Now you accuse people of microagression and everyone has to be sensitive to your perceived slight(s)
Accusing everyone and everything of racism, real or imagined but mostly imagined, was wearing thin.

When a white women got in an elevated, with several black men, she supposedly clutch her purse and was fearful. That would have been a act of microagression?


14 posted on 05/08/2015 7:45:46 AM PDT by Leep ("Soon you won't be able to live in America as a Muslim. The noose is tightening," Elton Simpson)
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To: rightistight

elevated = elevator


15 posted on 05/08/2015 7:46:36 AM PDT by Leep ("Soon you won't be able to live in America as a Muslim. The noose is tightening," Elton Simpson)
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To: rightistight
“Microaggression: a subtle but offensive comment or action directed at a minority or other nondominant group that is often unintentional or unconsciously reinforces a stereotype.

Waiting for someone to explain to me how something can be simultaneously "directed" and yet "unintentional" in 3... 2... 1...

Also: What is it then called when the roles are reversed and the person making the "offensive" comment belongs to the minority or non-dominant group and the "offended person" belongs to the majority or dominant group? Reparations?

Regards,

16 posted on 05/08/2015 7:46:37 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: rightistight

“gender-fluid”

Sounds like something you’d need a wet washcloth to clean up...


17 posted on 05/08/2015 7:50:59 AM PDT by moovova
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To: moovova

imagine { if you will ] what happens when microagression and gender fluid combine....


18 posted on 05/08/2015 7:53:08 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

We might be premature in our assumptions.

;-)


19 posted on 05/08/2015 7:55:52 AM PDT by moovova
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when will the terms Genderaggression and microfluid..be added to said dictionary??

has the term OBIE...been added YET??


20 posted on 05/08/2015 7:58:30 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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