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How conservatives use ‘verbal jiu-jitsu’ to turn liberals’ language against them
CNN ^ | August 20, 2023 | John Blake

Posted on 08/20/2023 3:17:33 PM PDT by TBP

Republicans are masters of verbal jiu-jitsu. It’s a form of linguistic combat in which the practitioner takes a political phrase or concept popularized by their opponent and gradually turns into an unusable slur. Like the Japanese martial art known as jiu-jitsu, its devotees avoid taking opposing arguments head on and instead redirect their opponents’ momentum to beat them.

If this sounds abstract, consider the evolution of “ woke.” The word is defined as being “actively aware of social injustice.” But it has been transformed into a contemporary scourge, one that a politician compared to a “virus more dangerous than any pandemic, hands down.”

Mention almost any touchstone phrase adopted by the left in recent years — “critical race theory,” “diversity,” “global warming,” even the word “liberal” itself — and it has been redefined or tarnished by conservatives.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chat; conservatives; liberallanguage
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To: desertsolitaire

Absolutely!


61 posted on 08/20/2023 5:32:47 PM PDT by Observator
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To: TBP

Bad, bad, bad conservatives!
Stop using our catchphrases, you big meanies!

LOL

It wouldn’t sting as much if the wokey dokes weren’t such self-righteous prigs.


62 posted on 08/20/2023 5:37:49 PM PDT by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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To: Jonty30
I just tell the truth and it drives liberals nuts.

To piss off a conservative, tell a lie.
To piss off a liberal, tell the truth!

63 posted on 08/20/2023 5:38:36 PM PDT by null and void (It's 10 o'clock, does the president know where he is?)
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To: TBP

It wouldn’t be so easy if progressives did not have unbelievably stupid ideas and then name them.

When I use the term “woke”, I mean it exactly the way progressives mean it — no jujitsu there. The problem is that what they mean is laughably ridiculous and evil.


64 posted on 08/20/2023 5:59:58 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: 17th Miss Regt

I agree with this as an example.

Is “person of color” still the latest correct term?


65 posted on 08/20/2023 6:13:53 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: TBP

If it ticks off the left, it’s the right thing to do.

My life goal, as I get older and wiser, is to do everything in my power to make life as uncomfortable as I can for the enemies of our freedom, the democRATS and their flock of idiots.

And that includes using their own words against them.


66 posted on 08/20/2023 6:20:39 PM PDT by meyer (FBI = KGB for the DNC; IRS = Gestapo)
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To: DoodleBob

***What’s wrong with someone fighting on behalf of the poor and exploited?***

Nothing is wrong with that, it’s just that we define “poor and exploited” differently than they do.

For example, I think that children who are being groomed by their teachers about trans-ideology are the ones who are being exploited, but the left think it’s the trans teachers who are exploited.

I think that children who are sex-trafficked are the exploited, but they think I should care about the perverts and pedophiles who are exploiting these children.

The poor are those of us for whom Joe Burden and his horrible administration are screwing royally, in every which way. The left doesn’t care about the real poor. If they did, their behaviors and “programs” would be very different.


67 posted on 08/20/2023 6:24:11 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: FamiliarFace

Let me check my weekly “I’m offended!” update...


68 posted on 08/20/2023 6:26:01 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: Observator

FWIU, aikido developed from aiki-jujutsu.


69 posted on 08/20/2023 6:27:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Bigg Red

Same here.


70 posted on 08/20/2023 6:28:45 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Observator
TBP ~ Like the Japanese martial art known as jiu-jitsu

Observator ~ Wrong! That is Aikido.

Oh? Then what's jiu-jitsu? The Israeli martial art?

I know that's actually Krav Maga...

71 posted on 08/20/2023 6:30:35 PM PDT by null and void (It's 10 o'clock, does the president know where he is?)
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To: desertsolitaire

Hapkido is Korean, but the hanja (Chinese characters) for it (合氣道) do spell “aikido” in Japanese.


72 posted on 08/20/2023 6:33:19 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: x

The proper term is “illegal alien”, not “illegal immigrant”.


73 posted on 08/20/2023 7:15:57 PM PDT by skepsel ("A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", Mark Twain.)
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To: skepsel

Yes, although one could argue for “criminal alien”, as their entering the country was a criminal act...


74 posted on 08/20/2023 7:25:59 PM PDT by null and void (It's 10 o'clock, does the president know where he is?)
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To: TBP
(woke) The word is defined as being “actively aware of social injustice.”

The new definition is 'Go WOKE - Go BROKE... catchy little short cut...

75 posted on 08/20/2023 7:44:12 PM PDT by GOPJ (Hunter Biden’s pet name for his father on his cellphone. It was “Pedo Peter”. Jim Hoft )
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To: TBP

Every leftist argument seems to eventually boil down to "I know you are but what am I?"

76 posted on 08/20/2023 8:47:59 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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I have a friend, who is actually a strong conservative, but voted Democrat for several years because a regional Republican Party Chairman crook screwed him over personally.

In one of our conversations over who to vote for, he accused me of using ‘Verbal Jiu-Jitsu’ on him.

I said: “No; I’m slapping you upside the head with a 2X4 of reality.”


77 posted on 08/20/2023 8:54:39 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: TBP

they simply can’t stand that we know what they actually mean when they use these made-up words and phrases.


78 posted on 08/20/2023 8:59:53 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: TBP

Still haven’t won back “gay”.


79 posted on 08/20/2023 10:15:45 PM PDT by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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To: x

Like “Far Right” (I’ve been called that), versus the apparently non-existent “Far Left”.


80 posted on 08/21/2023 8:54:28 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Don't wish your enemy ill; plan it. // Sure - You're right. Now what are you going to do about it?)
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