[ April 19, 2024 ]
Politico has surrendered to mentally disturbed woke millennial staffers…..
“The entire dynamic is totally backwards.”
Some of the banned words and phrases:
– biological woman
– biological female
– waiter/waitress
– mankind
– manhunt
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Tucker Carlson @amber_athey mock Politico over its absurd list of banned words. pic.twitter.com/cC2fKvpbMM
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 7, 2023
Revealed: Politico’s banned words
Inside one media company’s surrender to progressive pieties
By:
Amber Athey, The Spectator, March 6, 2023:In my new book, The Snowflakes’ Revolt, I examine how progressive millennials have infiltrated and influenced American media over the past decade, taking ideas from college campuses into the newsroom and pushing the editorial line further to the left than ever before. Among the many prominent organizations where this has happened is Politico. One sign of the shift at this Washington news mainstay came in December 2020, when staff revolted after conservative commentator Ben Shapiro guest-authored the outlet’s flagship newsletter, Playbook. A few months later newsroom activists, unsatisfied by Politico’s response to their concerns, quickly seized on a new culture war battle — transgender issues.
The showdown centered on a March 2021 article titled “GOP seizes on women’s sports as unlikely wedge issue.” The article, by political reporter Gabby Orr, explored how Republicans sought to position themselves as defenders of women’s sports against transgender athletes. The row over the article didn’t generate as many headlines as the bust-up over Shapiro, but internally it was a decisive moment that marked a sea change in how the publication reported the news.
As a source briefed on the situation explained to me, Orr was informed by Politico’s director of editorial diversity initiatives Robin Turner that two colleagues had voiced concerns about her story. Turner wanted to arrange a meeting to discuss them. During the meeting, Orr was asked about her employment history at the Washington Examiner, a center-right outlet, and asked why the story omitted any transgender voices — though it had extensively quoted Kate Oakley, senior counsel at the Human Rights Campaign, an activist organization dedicated to LGBTQ+ issues.
Orr’s colleagues also complained that she quoted conservatives, such as American Principles Project director Terry Schilling and former White House policy adviser Stephen Miller, without “contextualizing” their comments. Schilling had pessimistically praised left-wing activists for their ability to convince the American public that transgender people were facing a wave of violence even though when “you look at the numbers… it’s, like, forty people.” Orr, her colleagues argued, should have explicitly told readers that those remarks were offensive and transphobic.
One attendee took issue with the phrase “biological women,” which appeared three times in the piece, but only in direct quotations. Her colleagues again described the phrase as offensive to transgender readers.
At the end of the meeting Turner suggested that Orr’s colleagues serve as “sensitivity readers” — making sure Orr wasn’t causing offense — prior to publication of future stories about transgender issues. Interestingly, the problem didn’t arise when Orr wrote a 5,000-word Politico magazine cover story on the same subject only six months earlier, extensively quoting trans people without drawing internal complaints.
Multiple sources point back to a bad-blooded Zoom meeting about Shapiro guest-editing Playbook as the moment that emboldened Politico staff to start pushing back on colleagues who did not write about issues in the overtly partisan way they desired. The sources also confirmed that multiple other Politico reporters were given warnings about their coverage of transgender issues.
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10 Comments1 year agoI make a point of using all words they ban. No one tells me what to say and how I can speak.
Use all the phrases and words that they want to purge,
1 year agoReply to Harry GrimesMe too Sir,……………………..ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, crack that whip, fruitcake, peanut gallery, The Government are traitors, liar, cheaters and corrupt, waiter, waitress, chain migration, gay bob ………so freaking what, names don’t kill you, they are just names and in the right context it should never matter!!!!!!
1 year agoNobody and I mean seriously NOBODY can make me say or do anything!!!!!!!!!!! My free choice is mine and if you think I will have consequences for doing or saying the wrong thing SO WILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Crack that whip,mankind, waiter,waitress, slap the monkey, bonehead, snowflake, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS….ha-hah I said them, nah nah nah nah you take my freedom of speech or anything else of mine especially CONTROL, than you will find out the hard way what we True, Natural, Patriotic citizens are capable of and I got thousands of people who agree and will back me up!!!!!!!!!
1 year agoSo what are these morons going to try to do with me when I call myself a Biological Male and my Wife as a Biological Female because they can all scream at the Sky as loud as they wish but if they lay a hand on me or my wife then it will be the last hand they ever lay on anybody.
I now go out of my way to say the ”wrong” wordings when I encounter or see a moron like these crazy people around me, for instance I was sitting with my wife eating Dinner in a Diner when a group of ”boys” and ”girls” sat close by and so my wife started speaking somewhat louder in support of Trump and against this transnonsense BS because I wanted see just what these wee soy boys and their fat tattooed ”girl” friends were made off.. As we stood up to walk out they GLARED at us with pure hate and that is all they are, demons in T-Shirts and Camo Pants covered in tattoos.
A spoiled rotten, entitled, shallow sheep like generation.
A sad generation indeed.1 year agoThese people are sexually and biologically INSANE!
1 year agoReply to Don39It’s not new. Have you heard about German homosexual activist Magnus Hirschfeld? “In 1919 he created the Institute of Sex Research. Among its goals was the promotion of “free love,” masturbation, homosexuality, euthanasia, population control, abortion, feminism, and more. In the United States, this agenda was peddled as a way to fight back against the spread of sexually transmitted disease and poverty.” “Communists also played a key role. Prior to the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Russian communists vigorously promoted perverted sex education and “free love.””
“Bolshevik Deputy Commissar for Education and Culture Gyorgy Lukacs, who assumed his post in Hungary’s Bela Kun regime in 1918, pioneered this strategy in Hungary, with catastrophic results. Upon taking power, Lukacs and his comrades mandated raunchy sex education very similar to what is used today in the United States.
His Goal Was To Obliterate Hungary’s Christian Civilization And Values On The Road To A Marxist Utopia. His Tools Included Mandating Puppet Shows Featuring Perverted Sex Acts To Young School Children, Encouraging
Promiscuity In Sex Education, And Mocking Christian-style Family Values At The Bedrock Of Civilization.”Do you remember who was doing all this in the early 1960s? Ever heard of the Weather Underground? Bill Ayers, was one of the founders and he other members engaged in what they called “Smashing monogamy.” Read Paul Kengor’s book “Takedown” to find out what that was. When you do does it sound like anything going on as the Weather Underground began? Diana Oughton, Bill Ayers girl friend blew herself up making nail bombs.
1 year agoFrankly …… I will not be dictated to about which parts of the English Language I am “allowed” to use ….. you do not own me.
FUCK politico …. and, before you censor me …. read “cohen vs california 1971”
1 year agoWe need girls sports— mens spirts—and Freaks sports! My opinion
1 year agoIt’s another step in altering American culture. It is not the beginning. If you look back at the movie industry the Communists began to alter American culture in 1960 or so. How can you tell?? Look at the explosion in obscenity and profanity. Just look at what the FBI agent listed in his Goals of the Communists in his 1958 book;
#16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
#17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
#20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, and policymaking positions.
#21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
#25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
#26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, and healthy.”
#39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.Oh and not to be ignored look at these Goals:
#37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.The communist plans will probably morph more.
45 Communist goals for America
https://www.theblaze.com/45-communist-goals
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