The left would like a word, all of them, in fact

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year 2024 is “polarization”, which he defines as “division into two distinctly different opposites”. (The word overtook “brain rot,” but one wonders if it did among the dictionary staff.)

It’s actually been the word of the year since at least 2016, when President-elect Trump first won and the left went nuts.

The lefty staff in dictionary land couldn’t stand being Trumped and started playing word games almost immediately after their victory. Even NPR noted in 2017 that, “The Merriam-Webster dictionary has been trolling Trump on Twitter for months.”

You’d think the left would tire of such empty words, but they don’t. (iStock)

The company’s pun is part of a broader leftist strategy to invent new words or redefine existing terms to fit the liberal narrative. We’ve seen repeated examples in recent years: “childbirth person,” “Latinx” and, most recently, “womyn.”

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The Scripps National Spelling Bee, D-Shame, published a list of third grade words for its 100th birthday contest. And “womyn” is included as an acceptable alternate spelling for the actual word, women. Naturally, according to a Scripps spokesperson, “All words used in the Scripps National Spelling Bee program are taken from our official dictionary, the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary.”

Consider me shocked. (Adjective: affected by a sudden mental or emotional disturbance.) But that’s just propaganda. Even the Leftist Urban Dictionary describes the word “womyn” as “a term used by feminists who feel that having the word ‘man’ in the word ‘woman’ makes women a subset of men.” (Scripps also approved “bazaar” as an alternative to bazaar, which is odd.)

Even more controversial than this twist is the attempt to remove mothers from our language, to appease transgender extremists. In July 2022, the NEA, the deranged union of America-hating teachers, considered changing the language. They wanted it discard the word “mother” and change it to “birth parents”. “Parent” was supposed to change to “non-birth parent”. That’s because real parents, moms and dads alike, don’t like what NEA wants to do to their kids.

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That plan failed. Even the NEA must have realized how crazy it was.

A month later, the AP Stylebook decided that “phrases like ‘pregnant people’ or ‘abortion-seeking people’ are acceptable when you want to include people who have these experiences but do not identify as women.”

This and all sorts of other strange things have been accepted by the so-called sciences. Everything from “sucking at the breast” instead of breastfeeding to urging staff to “avoid unnecessarily gendered language” is available on the NIH website. Employees should “use everyone or all instead of men and women and guests or distinguished people instead of ladies and gentlemen.” NIH tries to put those words in someone else’s mouth and gives instructions on their site with a prominent link to the AP style book.

The liberal media defended this nonsense or defended it. And they still do. CNN wrote: “The case for saying ‘pregnant people’ and other gender-inclusive phrases.” The gender-inclusive phrase the story mentioned was “penis owners.” (You have to write your own jokes for this one. I wrote a few and deleted them because I like to work.) The network published this article in May 2024.

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You’d think the left would tire of such empty words, but they don’t. Look at the ridiculous word Latinx. Liberals created it because they hate that Spanish has both masculine and feminine words, so they wanted a gender-neutral term for people of Spanish or Latin American descent. But despite years of effort, Pew Research reported in September that “4 percent of Latino adults say they have used Latin to describe themselves, little changed from the 3 percent who said the same in 2019.”

Instead of giving up, leftists simply try a new fake term. In April, Axios wrote that “Latin is the new Latin.” That’s how to say Vice President Kamala Harris is the new Michael Dukakis. It is not particularly complementary to either side of the comparison.

The article stated, “‘Latin,’ a gender-neutral way to describe or refer to people of Latino descent, is growing in popularity on college campuses, in museums, and among researchers and the media.”

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None of these groups he mentions are actually Hispanic or Latino. Every single one of them is just another elite leftist ivory tower. So who do they cite as an expert? Monica Trasandes, “director of media in Spanish and representation at GLAAD” – The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

Talk about not being able to read a room, an election, or even a dictionary.

And, ironically, the article was published in Axios Latino. Not Axios Latine or Latinx.

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The left’s push to use bad words makes me think of Susie Dent’s wonderful word to describe it. She calls herself “That Woman in the Dictionary Corner” and regularly posts obscure terms from centuries past. One of his August words of the day was: “‘Podsnappian’ (from Charles Dickens): blinkered, self-congratulatory and convinced that everyone else should see things the way you do.”

That seems to me to be the last word. It aptly describes the grammar goons on the left.

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