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The ‘woke’ words Democrats should cut from their vocabulary
Politico ^ | 08/22/2025 | Adam Wren

Posted on 08/24/2025 12:10:50 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Democrats seem to think they can talk their way out of the political wilderness.

Listen closely and you can hear it through the din of their all-caps Trumpian X feeds, their hourslong “manosphere” podcast interviews and their more frequent swearing.

Nearly 10 months after the 2024 elections, and the party is still embroiled in self-recriminations over where they’re talking, what they’re talking about and, now, the actual words they’re using. Or, more precisely: which words they shouldn’t utter.

In a new memo, shared exclusively with POLITICO, the center-left think tank Third Way is circulating a list of 45 words and phrases they want Democrats to avoid using, alleging the terms put “a wall between us and everyday people of all races, religions, and ethnicities.” It’s a set of words that Third Way suggests “people simply do not say, yet they hear them from Democrats.”

They span six categories — from “therapy speak” to “explaining away crime” — and put in sharp relief a party that authors say makes Democrats “sound like the extreme, divisive, elitist, and obfuscatory, enforcers of wokeness.” In the document, titled “Was It Something I Said?” Third Way argues that to “please the few, we have alienated the many — especially on culture issues, where our language sounds superior, haughty and arrogant,” according to the memo.

Among the blacklisted terms: privilege … violence (as in “environmental violence”) … dialoguing … triggering … othering … microaggression … holding space … body shaming … subverting norms … systems of oppression … cultural appropriation … Overton window … existential threat to [the climate, democracy, economy] … radical transparency … stakeholders … the unhoused … food insecurity … housing insecurity … person who immigrated … birthing person … cisgender … deadnaming … heteronormative … patriarchy … LGBTQIA+ …

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: libtards; wokewords

1 posted on 08/24/2025 12:10:50 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Rearranging the deckchairs on the Demtanic....


2 posted on 08/24/2025 12:15:41 PM PDT by Bobalu (BUY what THEY can't PRINT! They have sown the wind, and shall reap the whirlwind)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Words, phrases, AND deeds the Democratic party has already left out ...

Non- violence, truth, honesty, self-deluded, woman, man, sincerity, kindness, non- victim, governmental overreach, non grifter, homeless-industrial-NGO complex,humbleness, faceless, sin, robber, psychotic. criminal, just punishment Etc.


3 posted on 08/24/2025 12:22:59 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

I can think of a few other things they need to cut.


4 posted on 08/24/2025 12:25:00 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: MinorityRepublican

In other words, do not change one iota of your insane power mongering. Pretend you love your neighbor, love the Founding Fathers, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Just hide your hatred of all of the above until you are back in power again. Then, make darn sure you are NEVER out of power again. Follow some of the European model. Make anything MAGA a Federal Offense, with a minimum of 10 years hard time and re-education to get you mind right.

Make Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Jackson Brown the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Hunter Biden as Attorney General. The Fake Fascist Fraudster Fauci head of all health care.


5 posted on 08/24/2025 12:29:01 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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To: MinorityRepublican

From what I hear, almost none of the Latino people approve of this neutral term of Latinix, but a lot of progressives keep pushing it anyway.


6 posted on 08/24/2025 12:36:29 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: MinorityRepublican
So, can Democrats really talk their way back to power?

Short answer is a resounding NO. The fact that they've suddenly gone mad for censorship is admission of failure in that regard. The pronoun mania is another. And when you get to the point where you have to use "persons who can get pregnant" instead of "women" and try to enforce that with social shunning and state coercion, you're so lost you're never coming back.

7 posted on 08/24/2025 12:52:59 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

You can’t make Hunter Biden the Attorney General because that position requires a person to be there most of the time while appearing sober. You can be partisan, corrupt and lie to Congress on a regular basis but you have to look professional while doing it.


8 posted on 08/24/2025 12:55:13 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (I'm a happy boy)
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To: Billthedrill
The Democrats are known as the "WOKE" party.
9 posted on 08/24/2025 12:55:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sooooo now they just need to lie and obfuscate who they really are by avoiding words. Just dont think we are in a age where that is going to work.


10 posted on 08/24/2025 1:28:14 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Bobalu

I don’t think it’s as grim for the D’s as that.

Their problem is that the stupid word games progressives play reflect underlying policies that they are quite determined to inflict on the rest of the nation.

The question is, if they stop using their stupid words and pretend not to hate the rest of us, will enough voters think they have become normal Americans again that they vote for them.

I don’t think the answer to that is yet clear.


11 posted on 08/24/2025 1:35:24 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker
The question is, if they stop using their stupid words and pretend not to hate the rest of us, will enough voters think they have become normal Americans again that they vote for them.

It may not be until 2032 or even 2036 until they'll be able to pull that off. All they have to do is to find somebody who is presentable and somewhat charismatic (Wes Moore?).

Then it'll be the last election ever.

12 posted on 08/24/2025 1:42:07 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

“It may not be until 2032 or even 2036 until they’ll be able to pull that off. All they have to do is to find somebody who is presentable and somewhat charismatic (Wes Moore?).

Then it’ll be the last election ever.”

They thought 2016, 2020 and 2024 would be the last real election ever. Didn’t work.


13 posted on 08/24/2025 2:02:10 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Yes, all of that and some more.


14 posted on 08/24/2025 2:22:38 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: MinorityRepublican
How about eliminating “defund the police” or stop referring to boys as girls, or stop advocating for men in women/girl's restrooms, locker rooms and/or sports! But no, nothing on policy! Just empty vocabulary words we are all expected to forget simply by their fake omission. I wonder what words they would recommend? America First, illegal aliens, criminals, thugs, gangs, mothers, fathers, he or she, there is no them?
15 posted on 08/24/2025 2:43:14 PM PDT by GizzyGirl
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To: Bobalu

And the band played on...


16 posted on 08/24/2025 2:43:53 PM PDT by Noumenon (Duty is as heavy as a mountain; death is as light as a feather. KTF)
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To: lee martell
Democrats urged to ditch 'privilege,' 'Latinx' and dozens of other terms 'alienating' voters
17 posted on 08/24/2025 3:06:46 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
All sane people know that the Democrats frequently change the word but not its meaning.

George Orwell predicted this in his prophetic 1984 and dubbed it newspeak.

18 posted on 08/24/2025 4:19:50 PM PDT by Savage Beast (NOTHING enkindles anger, hate, violence, and murderous fury like Truth threatening guarded delusion.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Reminds me of Rush, “Lackhoff rhymes with..” when the democrats hired a liberal linguist to optimize democrat party newspeak.


19 posted on 08/24/2025 6:08:17 PM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower. )
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To: ModelBreaker

One four year democrat term and another 50 million illegal come in and it is over in a generation. Immigration, legal and illegal, is what has doomed the western world. Turds breed like rabbits.


20 posted on 08/24/2025 6:11:28 PM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower. )
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