Words matter.
While words, their correct definitions, and the applications thereof are important to the rational among us, they are of critical importance to the left.
Not only does the left manipulate words to support their various narratives, but they also do so to attack conservatives and conservative policies and ideology for the purpose of pitting one group of Americans against another.
It's important to understand that the left — from radical activists to Democrat politicians to their lapdog media — couldn't care less about whether we believe their lies and manipulation of words to fit their narratives — which is fundamental to the left's existence — but what they do care about are low-information rank-and-file Democrat voters buying their lies and manipulation.
One of the best examples, particularly during the Biden-Harris administration, is "illegal alien."
The term drives the left absolutely berserk. Hence, they began to use "softer," "less threatening" terms to describe people who enter the U.S. illegally, such as "non-citizens," "undocumented migrants," and "irregular immigrants" instead.
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Let's first look at logic.
If an American citizen legally visits Spain, for example, the American is an alien in Spain. But if you're a citizen of Colombia and are in America illegally, you are in fact an illegal alien in this country.
Logic aside, "illegal alien" is a term used in U.S. immigration law.
The bottom line is the left's manipulation of vocabulary intentionally blurs the meaning of what's right and what's wrong.
There’s a “challenge” at the southern border, not a “crisis.” Migrant children are being held in “reception centers” not “cages.” Instead of “border security,” it’s “border safety.” Deleted are the phrases “legal and illegal,” replaced with “authorized and unauthorized.”
The list is never-ending.
It Just Got Worse — And More Laughable
An American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyer on Tuesday trotted out a new term for an adult human female, referred to by the sane among as a "woman."
Chase Strangio, a so-called "trans" rights activist, who also claims he's a "transgender man," appeared on the left-wing digital news show "Democracy Now!" to blast President Donald Trump’s executive order on sex and gender.
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Strangio complained to show host Amy Goodman that Trump "is targeting trans people by focusing on retrenching this notion of a fixed gender binary at the time of conception."
During his hissy fit, Strangio referred to women (actual women) as "non-transgender women."
ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio is panicking that Trump banned men from "non-trans women" (women) locker rooms pic.twitter.com/dxOYJv00qk
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 22, 2025
After you stop laughing, please continue reading.
The left's ridiculous ongoing manipulation of terms to describe an adult female has not only been laughable; it has also been a perfect representation of left-wingers' bastardization of vocabulary for the sole purpose of driving its narratives.
"Woman," as in singer Helen Reddy's "I'm Woman, Hear Me Roar," became anathema on the left as so-called "transgenderism" kicked into high gear, with mentally disturbed men deciding they actually women, giving rise to "transgender woman," so simply saying "woman" no longer worked.
Take, for instance, the ridiculous term "biological" men or women (which is redundant), or my favorite, "cisgender" — which refers to a man or woman who declares to be the same gender as his or her gender at birth.
And now, the goofy term "non-transgender woman" seems to suggest that if "non-transgender" isn't tacked on before "woman," ordinary people might be confused about whether a woman is "cis" or trans." That, of course, is insane.
Here's more:
Trump's executive order, titled "Defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government," clarifies that it is the U.S. policy to recognize two sexes, male and female, and that men and women are biologically distinct, along with addressing how agencies should handle these directives.
One part of the EO directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to produce a policy that protects women "seeking single-sex rape shelters" and other intimate spaces, which Strangio objected to.
Strangio claimed this would, "in essence, exclude trans people from various forms of shelter system, under the auspices that a trans person is an inherent threat to non-transgender women."
After refusing to call biological women "women," Strangio added that this part of the order "just enhances the risk that transgender people face in society, if we are deemed as a threat to others simply by existing."
As the Forum for Economic Freedom (FEE) reminded us in August 2017, "would-be tyrants capture language to control thought," adding that the left's newspeak is "a crucial weapon of authoritarian power."
After all, I thought Donald Trump was supposed to be "Hitler" and a "fascist."
