I notice language. I can’t help it. It might be a little OCD, I just don’t care enough to bother to be diagnosed – I’m not interested in the “I’ve been diagnosed with X, I’m victim, pay attention to me!” game. Even if I did have a touch of it, I’m happy with it, as it helps me notice things, which allows me to point them out. And one thing I’ve noticed lately is how the following words – wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend – are going away in news stories and they’re being replaced by “partner.”
Illegal aliens used to be called illegal aliens. Why? Because they’re illegally in this country and alien was a term for people from another country. Makes sense. But Democrats hated it because it concisely conveyed accurate information about someone’s immigration status. “No person is illegal,” they whined, while forbidding the collection of data on the criminal activity of illegal aliens. (Well, illegal activity beyond their mere existence in the country, that is.)
It was a matter of politics for the left – they did not want to differentiate between Americans and illegal aliens because A) They favor illegal aliens, B) They want as many as possible in the country because they see them as a huge voting pool for them, and C) If the true crime statistics were ever known, I’m certain there would be a near-uniform cry from Americans for mass deportations.
By setting the term under which these people could be discussed and have data collected on them, Democrats control the whole thing. Controlling language gives Democrats control over individuals, and if you can control the unit of measure, you control everything else. If you forbid the collection of illegal alien crime data, you’re free to cite half-hearted, biased studies from pro-invasion groups declaring: “Migrant crime rate is lower than that of Americans!”
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It doesn’t have to be true, and it’s not true (aside from knowing what language is spoken in prisons or what gang tattoos mean, read news stories about crime. OK, they no longer report the ethnicity or national origin of criminals in news stories, but why do you think that is? Also, mugshot still exist). Democrats aren’t ones to let the truth stand in the way of a good story.
But they’ve won on that front. Not on the policy, but the language. Thank God the policy fight isn’t over, at least not yet. The language fight is. Tune in to any “conservative” media outlet or listen to a token conservative on a liberal channel and you’ll hear “migrant” used 99 percent of the time to describe illegal aliens. Sure, an illegal alien might slip by every once in a while, but never consistently. That’s not by accident, people are trained or ordered. Neither option is good.
By changing the words, the left changed the terms of the ideological fight. It didn’t happen by accident; they knew what they were doing. And they know what they are doing now with “partner.”
That's the “progressive” left pushing the “There are no genders” crap on kids. We’ve seen thousands of confused, miserable, unattractive leftist teachers in tears because one of their kindergarten students used whatever pronoun the teacher made up and said they were a good person or something after the teacher desperately sought validation for their existence by regaling 5-year-olds with a story of how they and their “throuple” attended a non-binary orgy over the weekend. They’re always in tears in their classrooms, but shouldn’t be allowed within five football fields of any kid.
These are the people who push the word “partner.” It denotes no gender, no relationship status that involves exclusivity or fidelity. You can’t cheat on a “partner,” you’re just partners – like you opened a kiosk in the mall selling novelty socks or something.
If you’re “exclusive,” that excludes other people. But “partners” can have multiple people join or leave, there are no terms or set definition of the word when it comes to the degenerate sex lives of these people. It’s two-for: it normalizes whatever someone does sexually, and it removes gender from the mix.
Personally, I don’t care what these people call themselves. We home school, so I don’t really have to worry about a seizure-inducing collection of progressive flags and BLM propaganda on the walls of my kids’ classrooms or the need to make it clear to any “teacher” that any further discussion of their or anyone else’s sex lives or proclivities with my 5- and 6-year-olds will result in what they will undoubtedly consider a hate crime and probably hospital stay for them. But other parents do. That’s why this matters.
Pay attention to the words your kids bring home. It used to be that parents had to worry about their kids picking up swear words from school – and let me tell you, I picked up a bag full of them – now they have to be concerned about the manipulation and indoctrination through language on what would otherwise be innocuous matters. Adults do too. They’re coming for all of us, after all.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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