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Redefined? No, we define it properly.
1 posted on 08/20/2023 3:17:33 PM PDT by TBP
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Absurdity comes back at ya like a large person on a swing set.


26 posted on 08/20/2023 3:37:40 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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Verbal Ju Jitsu, now? It’s called LOGIC. Something liberals know nothing about!


28 posted on 08/20/2023 3:39:22 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! đź”­)
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Sound like “Republicans pounced”
On liberal euphemisms


31 posted on 08/20/2023 3:44:19 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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Heh, the left simply m*sturbates on the language. Under their rules, I can “identify” as whatever I want. Pronouns? Pick one, especially if it specifically excludes the noun it refers to. Keep it up, CNN. You make it sooooo easy to make fun of you. If you ever go to a real college and take a real academic pursuit, I look forward to seeing your 1.0 GPA.


32 posted on 08/20/2023 3:44:35 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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These nuts make my head ache


34 posted on 08/20/2023 3:47:00 PM PDT by dkGba
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Like the Japanese martial art known as jiu-jitsu

Wrong! That is Aikido.
35 posted on 08/20/2023 3:48:06 PM PDT by Observator
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No we don’t. The Stupid Party has a gold mine of comments liberals have made that prove their dopey positions, but we NEVER use it against them in public, only sometimes in hearings by Jim Jordan and Ted Cruz.


39 posted on 08/20/2023 3:53:58 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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No we don’t. The Stupid Party has a gold mine of comments liberals have made that prove their dopey positions, but we NEVER use it against them in public, only sometimes in hearings by Jim Jordan and Ted Cruz.


40 posted on 08/20/2023 3:53:59 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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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.

Tarnished by the progressives themselves.

Speaking of "verbal jiu-jitsu" look at how "family values" became a pejorative, derrogatory term, or how only conservatives can be "culture warriors" or how the story is never the bad things Democrats do or the wrong things them say, but "Republicans pounce/seize/weaponize." SDI became "Star Wars." Supply-side economics became "Trickle Down" and then "Trickle On." Rather than being an experimental method of finding the truth, " The Science" came to mean whatever bureaucrats told us to believe. Consider, too all the ju-jitsu involved when liberals want to avoid saying "illegal immigrants."

Moreover, it wasn't like liberals invented words like "diversity" and "inclusion" and "equity." They appropriated them and attached them to their policies, hoping that the good sound those words had would make people favorable to their policies. When people see what DEI or CRT really means, of course they have negative reactions. To expect otherwise is to demand people surrender their freedom of thought.

41 posted on 08/20/2023 3:56:53 PM PDT by x
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The left is 100 times better than the right at using language to shape, no distort the argument.

Ccommon cases of woke terminology:

Using the term "sexual orientation" instead of "sexual preference" is woke.

Using “gender” instead of “sex” is woke.

Using “Black” instead of “black” is woke”.

Using “Gender affirming surgery” instead of “genital mutilation surgery” is woke.

Using "Undocumented immigrant" instead of "Illegal immigrant" or "Illegal alien" is woke.

Saying that someone was "assigned" a sex (or worse gender) at birth is woke. A person's sex is recorded at birth, not assigned.

Using the term "equity" (equal outcome) instead of "equality" (equal opportunity) is woke.

Affirmative Action = quotas = discrimination = woke.

42 posted on 08/20/2023 3:59:25 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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I use their own stupid, inconsistent positions against them.

It’s best to do this with groups of them. It’s far more fun.


43 posted on 08/20/2023 4:01:41 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Proper definition of

“woke”.
verb-Simple past tense and past participle of wake. She woke from sleep to the sound of rain...

the other defs are just slang use that began in the 60’s, according to the wiki dictionary and Merriam Webster...


46 posted on 08/20/2023 4:11:51 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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LOL! Use their own words against them and it’s ju-jitsu!


48 posted on 08/20/2023 4:20:15 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
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But the left can co-opt any symbol (the rainbow) or word (yhink *gay* or *woke*) and redefine it as THEY please.


49 posted on 08/20/2023 4:21:55 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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50 posted on 08/20/2023 4:21:58 PM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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And the definition of marriage, woman...?


51 posted on 08/20/2023 4:42:18 PM PDT by fruser1
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"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."

Sure is amazing that a bunch of drooling ignorant deplorables from flyover country are able to outwit our exquisitely educated betters.
54 posted on 08/20/2023 4:59:42 PM PDT by chrisser (I lost my vaccine card in a tragic boating accident.)
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Oh Boo Freakin’ Hoo. You should be happy we're only using jui-jitsu on your words……for now.
55 posted on 08/20/2023 5:05:31 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (Ephesians 6:10 - 18)
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Jew Jitsu?


56 posted on 08/20/2023 5:08:18 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (The best slaves put their own chains on )
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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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