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Webster’s Redefined ‘Sexual Preference’ After Amy Coney Barrett Used It To Match Leftist Talking Points
The Federalist ^ | October 14, 2020 | Jordan Davidson

Posted on 10/14/2020 11:26:30 AM PDT by fwdude

The online version of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary changed the definition of “sexual preference” on the same day that senators scolded Judge Amy Coney Barrett for her use of the word during day two of her confirmation hearings.

When questioned by Democratic senators on the judiciary committee on Obergefell v. Hodges, which decreed a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, Sens. Mazie Hirono and Cory Booker reprimanded Barrett for using the term “sexual preference,” claiming that is was outdated and offensive.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: homofascism; homosexualagenda; merriamwebster; websters
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To: fwdude

Ask me my sexual preference and I will be offended. A back door to acceptance cascades my aggravation.


41 posted on 10/14/2020 1:40:58 PM PDT by Kalija (I've seen the future and left it behind)
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To: fwdude

My sexual preference is to have it.


42 posted on 10/14/2020 2:02:13 PM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: fwdude

It’s a good sign for ACB if the party of imbecility has nothing better to pretend to care about.

Conceive of the inverse of infinity; that’s how much Hirono’s “preference” terminology gotcha matters to anyone including her.


43 posted on 10/14/2020 2:49:15 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: fwdude

So Webster is twirling in his grave.


44 posted on 10/14/2020 3:09:36 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: fwdude

Well, “orientation” means to face toward the orient/Asia. Soooo..if oriental is an offensive term now would that, by extension, make sexual “orientation” offensive?


45 posted on 10/14/2020 3:20:04 PM PDT by Havoc Cry
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To: fwdude

I used to think 1984 was fiction.


46 posted on 10/14/2020 3:20:56 PM PDT by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane')
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To: DoughtyOne

They don’t realize it, but they just nullified the definition of “preference.”


47 posted on 10/14/2020 3:32:21 PM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: fwdude
At this rate, Webster will suffer the same fate as the other biased media. All of the "establishment" Enemedia are pulling out all the stops.

Wikipedia's Hunter Biden page currently dismisses anything negative about him as "right-wing conspiracy theories". That actually works to discredit Wikipedia, IMO.

48 posted on 10/14/2020 3:50:54 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor)
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To: fwdude

So, what if you prefer... I mean, are sexually oriented toward children? Is that an “orientation” or a “preference?”

Force them to follow the illogic of their “logic” to its damning conclusion.


49 posted on 10/14/2020 3:57:19 PM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: fwdude

I think so too.

I have a preference. Doesn’t everyone?

These people are so anal, figuratively and evidently
literally.


50 posted on 10/14/2020 4:55:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (If you're neverTrump at this point, drop the charade, you're just I never the United States.)
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To: fwdude

1984 is alive, well and working at Merriam-Webster


51 posted on 10/14/2020 5:08:53 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: farming pharmer

My Webster’s New Pocket Dictionary ©2000 goes from “sexual intercourse” to “sexy”, omitting “sexual preference”.


52 posted on 10/14/2020 6:53:25 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: shanover

On this vein, I guess it might as well be mentioned that Sen. Hirono is also outdated & quite offensive ....to normal folks anyway.


53 posted on 10/14/2020 8:16:40 PM PDT by oldtech
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