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Reassessments and adjustments of dictionary definitions usually take years, if not decades. This one took hours to modify.

And faggots try to tell us they are so “powerless” in society.

1 posted on 10/14/2020 11:26:30 AM PDT by fwdude
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There is a very definite downside to having everything online as opposed to published in book form.


2 posted on 10/14/2020 11:27:16 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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1984


3 posted on 10/14/2020 11:28:11 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (FILL THE SEAT)
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Even dictionaries are corrupt.


5 posted on 10/14/2020 11:29:27 AM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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Well they can’t change my 1949 Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary which doesn’t have a definition for “sexual preference” nor any other modern two word phrases.


6 posted on 10/14/2020 11:34:44 AM PDT by Pollard (You can’t be for “defunding the police” and against “vigilantism” at the same time.)
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sexual preference noun

sexual pref·​er·​ence | \ -ˈpref-(ə-)rens \

Medical Definition of sexual preference

offensive, see usage paragraph below : SEXUAL ORIENTATION Usage of Sexual Preference

The term sexual preference as used to refer to sexual orientation is widely considered offensive in its implied suggestion that a person can choose who they are sexually or romantically attracted to.

8 posted on 10/14/2020 11:36:00 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.“

George Orwell, 1984


9 posted on 10/14/2020 11:38:04 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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The word “equality” is outdated and deeply offensive to lovers of freedom.

I demand an apology from the Democrat Party for their repeated use of such filth!


10 posted on 10/14/2020 11:39:36 AM PDT by The Toll
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My gigantic Webster’s Dictionary from the 30’s says otherwise.


11 posted on 10/14/2020 11:40:27 AM PDT by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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I'm a big fan of "proclivities."

Also "predilections."

12 posted on 10/14/2020 11:40:27 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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Dictionaries don’t change anything; they are books. Word definitions are changed by, you guest it: People! What we want to know is this: WHO did this? Was it one person? Was it an editorial board? Whoever is was, they have Names. Where do they work? Where are they hiding? Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us who you are, you sniveling cowards.


13 posted on 10/14/2020 11:40:32 AM PDT by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees)
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I went to the website and see Webster replaced the term "sexual preference" with "sexual orientation" on the basis that it's something one is born with and can't change.

Mayor Bill DiBlasio's wife (and ex-lesbian) Chirlane McCray plus their kids would beg to differ!


15 posted on 10/14/2020 11:43:19 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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So, the online dictionary, not just the social media, has a direct line to democrat central through which they get their orders to censor, wipe out.


17 posted on 10/14/2020 11:50:53 AM PDT by I want the USA back (4 More years! DJT!)
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Faggots and lesbos still works in my book.


20 posted on 10/14/2020 11:52:18 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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The same Rat dictionary changed or plans to change the meaning of racism as an exclusive trait of Whites


21 posted on 10/14/2020 11:52:21 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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The dictionary online has no listing for “sexual preference” now.


22 posted on 10/14/2020 11:55:51 AM 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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Your Ministry of Truth, Dictionary Department at work!


23 posted on 10/14/2020 11:56:04 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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I might be “outdated” and I don't care if I'm offensive, but sexual behavior is still a choice-whether it involve rape, LGBQT, or pedophiles.
25 posted on 10/14/2020 11:58:00 AM PDT by HarleyD
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Sexual Preference was coined in the early 80's by RATS... now they don't like it. queer still works
27 posted on 10/14/2020 12:10:33 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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That doesn’t make sense, even on its own terms. Sexual preference implies one’s preference in sexual partner. There is absolutely nothing in the expression that implies one can choose one’s preference. I am a heterosexual. I did not chose to be such, but I am. The term “sexual preference is about as anodyne and neutral as an expression can be. It can only offend those who are looking for a pretext to take offense. ACB cannot tell the senators that, but I am sure she knows that.


28 posted on 10/14/2020 12:13:25 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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https://www.newsweek.com/amy-coney-barrett-preference-definition-1539088

The Merriam-Webster dictionary updated its definition of the word “preference” on Tuesday, to include that the word is considered offensive when referring to someone’s sexual orientation.

The change came following Amy Coney Barrett’s use of the term during day two of her Supreme Court confirmation hearings, and was noticed immediately by journalist Steve Krakauer, who took to Twitter to highlight the recent update of the definition.

“As recently as last month, Webster’s Dictionary included a definition of ‘preference’ as ‘orientation’ or ‘sexual preference.’ TODAY they changed it and added the word ‘offensive.’ Insane—I just checked through Wayback Machine and it’s real,” Krakauer tweeted on Tuesday.

As recently as last month, Webster’s Dictionary included a definition of “preference” as “orientation” or “sexual preference.” TODAY they changed it and added the word “offensive.”

Insane - I just checked through Wayback Machine and it’s real.

(via @ThorSvensonn & @chadfelixg) pic.twitter.com/oOq1SNtCP2
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— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) October 14, 2020


30 posted on 10/14/2020 12:14:42 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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