{"id":19488,"date":"2022-08-11T00:39:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T07:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=19488"},"modified":"2022-08-11T00:39:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T07:39:36","slug":"the-perpetual-woke-revision-of-the-newspeak-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/08\/11\/the-perpetual-woke-revision-of-the-newspeak-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perpetual Woke Revision Of The Newspeak Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19489\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/merriam-webster-winston-smith-newspeak-dictionary-1984.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/merriam-webster-winston-smith-newspeak-dictionary-1984.jpg 450w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/merriam-webster-winston-smith-newspeak-dictionary-1984-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Languages change and evolve over time, but forced change to impose correct thinking and make \u201cwrongthink\u201d impossible, as the novel \u201c1984\u201d demonstrates acutely with Newspeak and its evolving\u2014and limiting\u2014totalitarian control of words is very real and is being <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1553107850083409922.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documented in real time<\/a> as <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/03\/08\/newspeak-dictionary-and-the-nomenklatura\/\">words are revised<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/10\/23\/the-newspeak-dictionary-is-both-real-and-woke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suit the woke<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/RKOh1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agenda and ideology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/<br \/>Dictionaries\/wikipedia changing the meaning of words in order to help the left win arguments. <\/p>\n<p>A thread\ud83e\uddf5<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cernovich?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Cernovich<\/a> gives us our first example: wikipedia redefining &quot;recession&quot; to help Democrats\ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vrtdJugxmQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/vrtdJugxmQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wokal_distance\/status\/1553107850083409922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2\/<br \/>When Republicans put Amy Coney-Barret on the Supreme court the left chaged the meaning of &quot;court-packing&quot; and dictionary .com went along with it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SOblr9EyAP\">pic.twitter.com\/SOblr9EyAP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wokal_distance\/status\/1553109239417212928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3\/<br \/>Speaking of Amy Coney-Barret&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When Amy Coney-Barret used the term &quot;preference&quot; wbile discussing sexual orientation the left pretended that &quot;preference&quot; was offensive, and Merriam-Webster changed the definition in order to make that lie stick\ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LYjKaXTvWx\">pic.twitter.com\/LYjKaXTvWx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wokal_distance\/status\/1553110801518575616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">4\/<br \/>The transgender people got merriam-webster the change the definition of the word &quot;female&quot; to include &quot;gender identity&quot; (pic 1) when that was nowhere to found as recently as 2019 (pic 2) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YWV1AzFE1q\">pic.twitter.com\/YWV1AzFE1q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wokal_distance\/status\/1553112699046871040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is magical thinking. By changing the definition of the word they believe that they can change what it is that the word defined. Literally sympathetic magic. They also believe that if you take a word away from something, that something ceases to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">5\/<br \/>Of course changing the meaning of &quot;female&quot; means changing the meaning of &quot;girl&quot; <\/p>\n<p>(H\/T <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@libsoftiktok<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VM5sCn3Wwy\">pic.twitter.com\/VM5sCn3Wwy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wokal_distance\/status\/1553112994107858944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">6\/<br \/>And of course changing the meaning of &#39;&quot;girl&quot; means changing the meaning of &quot;boy&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3ZO1dhpFLh\">pic.twitter.com\/3ZO1dhpFLh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wokal_distance\/status\/1553113555460931584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">7\/<br \/>We also find that vox celebrating the fact that Merriam-Webster changed the definition of racism to include purely &quot;systemic oppression.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lPp0jg3AzK\">pic.twitter.com\/lPp0jg3AzK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wokal_distance\/status\/1553114908853772296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">8\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chadfelixg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@chadfelixg<\/a> points out that google changed the definition of the word bigot <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NlmpDuQK7J\">pic.twitter.com\/NlmpDuQK7J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wokal_distance\/status\/1553115860956479488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">9\/<br \/>The left did not like us pointing out their use of &quot;cultural marxism&quot; (a term found in academic literature to refer to marxist cultural analysis) so they changed the meaning of that word to be an anti-semitic conspiracy theory&#8230; and wikipedia went along with it.\ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C16hJCn0bo\">pic.twitter.com\/C16hJCn0bo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wokal_distance\/status\/1553116702417850368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">10\/<br \/>The left did not lile non-white voting for Trump&#8230;so they changed the definition of &quot;whiteness&quot; to include black, brown, and hispanic people.<\/p>\n<p>The dictionary didn&#39;t go along with this&#8230;but the washington post sure did. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GodA70Xd7i\">pic.twitter.com\/GodA70Xd7i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wokal_distance\/status\/1553117209676898304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Doubpleplusungood.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Perpetual Woke Revision Of The Newspeak Dictionary\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Languages change and evolve over time, but forced change to impose correct thinking and make 'wrongthink' impossible, as the novel '1984' demonstrates acutely with Newspeak and its evolving\u2014and limiting\u2014totalitarian control of words is very real and is being documented in real time as words are revised to suit the woke agenda and ideology.  \"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/merriam-webster-winston-smith-newspeak-dictionary-1984.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Languages change and evolve over time, but forced change to impose correct thinking and make \u201cwrongthink\u201d impossible, as the novel \u201c1984\u201d demonstrates acutely with Newspeak and its evolving\u2014and limiting\u2014totalitarian control of words is very real and is being documented in &hellip; 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