We can play this game, and we should. For fun. Leftists play tricks with language where they try to pejoratize words (i.e. change them to mean something bad). When they speak, they use the "nice" inference'. When they describe what we say, they use the "bad" version. It's not hard to flip that.
Besides, this is great fun for fucking with them.
Rules: take the word on the left they use, and swap if for the one on the right instead when you repeat it back to them.
- "Abortion" --> Feticide
- "Accountability" --> Guilt
- "Activism" --> Harassment
- "Activist" --> Provocateur
- "ADHD" --> Boredom
- "Adulting" --> Maturity
- "Affirm" --> Demand
- "Affirmative" --> Compliant
- "Ally" --> Collaborator
- "Allyship" --> Allegiance
- "Antifascist": --> Vigilante
- "Arguments" --> Fallacy, sophistry
- "Asexual" --> Celibate
- "Assault weapon" --> Defence weapon
- "Assigned at birth" --> Observed at birth
- "Bigoted" --> Concluded
- "Binary" --> Dual
- "Blessed" --> Spoilt
- "Body positivity" --> Obesity acceptance
- "Call out" --> Defame
- "Civil partnership" --> Uncommitted
- "Colonization" --> Mercantilism
- "Come out" --> Renounce
- "Community" --> Population
- "Community guidelines" --> Institutional dogma
- "Community standards" --> Moral standards
- "Compassion" --> Naivety
- "Conspiracy theorist" --> Mythologist
- "Create reality" --> Spell
- "Critical" --> Cynical
- "Cultural appropriation" --> Cultural exchange
- "Dead name" --> Previous name
- "Defund" --> Disarm
- "Democratic socialist" --> Pre-communist
- "Democratic socialism" --> Voluntary socialism
- "Denier" --> Sceptic
- "Deny my existence" --> Invalidate your claim
- "Deplatform" --> Sabotage
- "Direct action" --> Direct conflict
- "Discrimination" --> Unfair discrimination
- "Diversity" --> Division
- "Divisive" --> Partisan
- "Dog whistle" --> Secret signal
- "Drag" --> Autogynephilia
- "Educate yourself" --> Indoctrinate yourself
- "Emancipate" --> Debase
- "Empathy" --> Permissiveness
- "Empowerment" --> Warrant
- "Equality" --> Preference
- "Equity" --> Unearned
- "Ethnocentric" --> Short-sighted
- "Fascist" --> Disciplinarian
- "Feminist" --> Female supremacist
- "Fluid" --> Unstable
- "Follow the science" --> Follow scientists
- "Freedom from consequences" --> Freedom from aggression
- "Gender expression" --> Hair, voice, and clothes
- "Gender roles" --> Gender specialties
- "Gendered" --> Partitioned
- "Glass ceiling" --> Glass canopy
- "Group identity" --> Group affiliation
- "Gun control" --> Gun confiscation
- "Hate" --> Disgust
- "Hate crime" --> Targeted crime
- "Hate speech" --> Mean speech
- "Hegemony" --> Leadership
- "Identify as" --> Claims they are
- "Identity" --> Appearance
- "Identify with" --> Believe
- "Implicit" --> Automatic
- "Incel" --> Nihilist
- "Inclusion" --> Favouritism
- "Indigenous" --> Original
- "Influencer" --> Huckster
- "Injustice" --> Injury
- "Institutional racism" --> Corporate racism
- "Internalized" --> Involuntary
- "Intersection" --> Crossroads
- "Intersectionality" --> Collision
- "Intersex" --> Hermaphrodite
- "Islamophobic" --> Islamosceptic
- "Justice" --> Retribution
- "Lens" --> Bias,
- "Liberate" --> Uncage
- "Lived experience" --> Opinion
- "Manifest" --> Materialize
- "Marginalize" --> Discount
- "Marginalized" --> DIscredited
- "Microaggression" --> Slight
- "Misogynist" --> Chauvinist
- "Misogyny" --> Misanthropy
- "Movement" --> Fashion
- "Multicultural" --> Plural
- "Multiculturalism" --> Cross-culturalism
- "My truth" --> Opinion
- "Narrative" --> Narration, lie
- "Non-binary" --> Unrecognised
- "Normalize" --> Accept
- "Normative" --> Normal
- "Open letter" --> Unpublished letter
- "Oppression" --> Suppression
- "Our policies" --> Our legal protections
- "Our values" --> Our beliefs/morals
- "Pansexual" --> Indiscriminate
- "Patriarchy" --> Illuminati
- "Pay gap" -> Mother tax
- "People of colour" --> Individuals
- "Performativity" --> Embodiment
- "Positionality" --> Context
- "Power dynamics" --> Politics
- "Pride" --> Exhibition
- "Privilege" --> Heritage
- "Pro-choice" --> Pro-murder
- "Problematic" --> Upsetting
- "Progressive" --> Degenerative
- "Queer" -> Androgynous
- "Reparations" --> Repayments
- "Representation" --> Priority
- "Respectful" --> Deferent
- "Safe space" --> Anxiety area
- "Self-care" --> Self-comfort
- "Sexual orientation" --> Sexual disposition
- "Sex reassignment" --> Sex transference
- "Sex work" --> Prostitute
- "Shaming" --> Humbling
- "Silence" --> Indifference
- "Social anxiety" --> Shyness
- "Social contract" --> Unsigned contract
- "Social construct" --> Social fiction
- "Social justice" --> Social retribution
- "Socialism" --> Pre-communism
- "Socialist" --> Communist
- "Socialization" --> Nurture
- "Socially-constructed" --> Socially-negotiated
- "Solidarity" --> Allegiance
- "Spectrum" --> Lexicon
- "Stay in your lane" --> Overtaking
- "Stereotype" --> Image
- "Structural" --> Statistical
- "Subvert" --> Corrupt
- "Sustainable" --> Unprofitable
- "Systemic" --> Universal
- "Systemic racism" --> Historic racism, legalized racism, legacy racism
- "Tolerant" --> Permissive
- "Tone deaf" --> Disruptive
- "Toxic" --> Abusive
- "Training" --> Programming
- "Transgender" --> Degendered, disorientated
- "Transphobe" --> Trans-sceptic
- "Trigger warning" --> Sensitivity/fragility warning
- "Two-spirit" --> Native American
- "Unconscious bias" --> Invisible bias
- "Under-represented" --> Ignored
- "Undocumented" --> Illegal, inadmissible
- "Use your platform" --> Politicise your position
- "White supremacy" --> Racial pre-eminence
Here's some examples:
Commie: "I identify as bluehair-pangender and abortion is a human right!"
You:* "Ok, so you believe you are an unrecognised sex, and want to legalise feticide?"*
Commie: "Yeah, well that's all just socially constructed, and words create reality. It's structural toxic patriarchy and your privilege"
You: "I think social fictions are an important part of our heritage too. I don't subscribe to mythology about casting spells or the Illuminati being statistical though".
Commie: "Safe spaces are an important way to protect women to recount their lived experience!"
You: "Why do you need an anxiety area to express your opinion?"
Commie: "Well the reason we need common sense gun control against assault weapons is because of systemic racism"
You: "I don't agree we need gun confiscation for defence rifles to combat historic racism."
There's actually no great conspiracy here. It's just a bunch of people who want to appear very smart, when they aren't. So they "re-invent" a word to make it seem "new". Some of them might be nefarious, but most just have an inferiority complex after not qualifying for a real academic subject. In linguistics this is called "obscurantism" and the methodology attempts to "fuzzy" words into wider, more abstract terms which cause cognitive overload. To use a computer analogy, they are trying to crash your CPU processor.
Here's how it works:
- Leftoid says stupid thing with "clever" terminology.
- Pick out the word, swap it for the more accurate one.
- Repeat the question back calmly. Do not get mad.
- There will be confusion. Wait for them to regroup.
- THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAID.
- Repeat the same thing.
- REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Great stuff! Thank you!