Webster’s Dictionary was caught changing its entry for “preference” and is now labeling the term as offensive in relation to “sexual preference” after yesterday’s fake outrage the SCOTUS nominee hearing:
As recently as last month, Webster’s Dictionary included a definition of “preference” as “orientation” or “sexual preference.” TODAY they changed it and added the word “offensive."
Insane – I just checked through Wayback Machine and it’s real.
(via @ThorSvensonn & @chadfelixg) pic.twitter.com/oOq1SNtCP2
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) October 14, 2020
Yes, it checks out:
It's always good to double-check claims like this before retweeting.
I did so, and the claim is precisely accurate.https://t.co/8QrJ9smmNu https://t.co/JKoMalg9b5
— Alan Cole (@AlanMCole) October 14, 2020
This all happened in less than 24 hours:
Yesterday morning, "sexual preference" was a perfectly normal term. By lunchtime, left wing Twitter had decided that it's problematic. A few hours later Democrats were denouncing it publicly. Then came the media thinkpieces. By bedtime, the dictionary had changed its definition.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) October 14, 2020
And what’s the word we’re looking for again?
“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.” https://t.co/Sv9wmu1UpF
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 14, 2020
Oh yeah:
Orwellian https://t.co/AI693zcTZ9
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 14, 2020
Orwellian. Except it’s real. https://t.co/9tvQ0C6xaH
— Mickey White (@BiasedGirl) October 14, 2020
Pretty amazing to watch it happen in real time. Key here is the revelation of precisely *how* it happens: bad faith lunatics make stuff up, scared pols parrot it, and the *dictionary* follows. Orwellian. https://t.co/ccCyYUyTzn
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) October 14, 2020
Hopefully, it does “kill the woke movement”:
This will ultimately kill the woke movement. Well-meaning. tolerant people see it as an endless minefield of "gotchas" whereby someone declares language that was acceptable last week to be hate-speech today. Its Calvinball, and its exhausting even for tolerant people. https://t.co/GJFnNilgPg
— Brian Riedl ? (@Brian_Riedl) October 14, 2020
And as we pointed out yesterday, there was absolutely no outrage when Joe Biden said the same thing:
Joe Biden in May promised to "rebuild the backbone of this country, the middle class, but this time bring everybody along regardless of color, sexual preference, their backgrounds." via @robbysoave https://t.co/Zokk3ko8BQ
It's 100% faux outrage. https://t.co/ovlWIkFmFf
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) October 14, 2020
Even the LGBTQ publication The Advocate had no issue with the term:
In case anyone believes any of the outrage today was in good faith. pic.twitter.com/Y8t2snavzZ
— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) October 14, 2020
Even more examples!
I mean this is all just complete insanity. Here’s Leon Panetta, Obama’s Defense Sec, writing in 2018 for CNN about how “Trump is not who we are” since “we are all created equal under God, regardless of our race, creed, religion, color, sexual preference."https://t.co/CUgrQjDKF8 pic.twitter.com/jWSX4f3hrf
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) October 14, 2020
Et tu, CNN?
I really enjoy this CNN article headlined “What does ‘gender-fluid’ mean?” which includes this line: "Being gender-fluid doesn't determine a person's sexual preference."
Apparently what is considered offensive language, like gender, is fluid.https://t.co/Nhr2dDyXL5
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) October 14, 2020
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Related:
Amy Coney Barrett apologizes for using the term ‘s***** preference’; Joe Biden hasn’t been asked to https://t.co/7SfnRDyqRi
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 14, 2020
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