{"id":78560,"date":"2021-07-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78560"},"modified":"2021-06-30T09:09:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:09:20","slug":"the-dfl-dictionary-third-edition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78560","title":{"rendered":"The DFL Dictionary:  Third Edition!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been 12 years since we last updated &#8220;The DFL Dictionary&#8221; &#8211; the official guide to translating from &#8220;leftist&#8221; to English. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in today&#8217;s politics, that&#8217;s a couple of eternities, pureed to a fine sheen.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61902\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"61902\">Looking back at the Second Edition<\/a>, last updated in 2009, it almost looks like a trip back to a more innocent time, doesn&#8217;t it?  Like an archaeological artifact when it seems like the languages were just a difference in argot, rather than rapidly diverging dialects of English?   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s high time for an update.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve got my suggestions.   I welcome yours in the comments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My Proposed Additions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cancel Culture:  <\/strong>It doesn&#8217;t exist, and never existed.  And if you suggest otherwise, a mob will come after you, your employer and your family, as a consequence for saying things that aren&#8217;t and were never true.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gender<\/strong>:  (Noun) A social construct that is simultaneously dispositive on Intersectional matters, and doesn&#8217;t exist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hate<\/strong>:  (noun). Any political thought that isn&#8217;t covered in the Democratic platform at the appropriate level of government.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Orwell, George<\/strong>:  A British author who, despite his decades of activism on the left, and his own admissions, really wrote <em>1984 <\/em>and <em>Animal Farm <\/em>about Republicans. Not leftists.  Nosireebob. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Privilege<\/strong>:  A set of class entitlements that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67844\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"67844\">one invokes in an argument against someone else to pre-empt them doing the same<\/a> with your own class entitlements.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Racism:  <\/strong>Systemic power.  Not classism &#8211; no way, no how.   And it has nothing to do with hating someone for having a different ethnicity.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Woke<\/strong>:  The acceptable substitute for critical thought. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been 12 years since we last updated &#8220;The DFL Dictionary&#8221; &#8211; the official guide to translating from &#8220;leftist&#8221; to English. And in today&#8217;s politics, that&#8217;s a couple of eternities, pureed to a fine sheen. Looking back at the Second Edition, last updated in 2009, it almost looks like a trip back to a more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78598,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78560\/revisions\/78598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}