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Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Newspeak drops new definition for 'anti-vaxxer'. Now you are also one if you oppose *regulations* forcing vaccinations, not just laws. (i.imgur.com)
posted 4 years ago by AntonioOfVenice 4 years ago by AntonioOfVenice +156 / -0
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– AntonioOfVenice [S] 45 points 4 years ago +45 / -0

Previously, Merriam-Webster changed the definition of 'sexual preference' overnight in order to label its use as 'offensive', because it was used by someone the establishment did not like (Barrett).

It also changed the definition of racism, because... a 22-year-old girl demanded it. It also labeled being color-blind as racism.

TL;DR: it's propaganda.

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– aaaarg 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

Morons at merriam-webster.

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– BidenLikesMiners 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

I think its time to start buying REAL dictionaries again, bois.

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– SupremeReader 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

They're going to kill me!

Ah, "They", their 2019 Word of the Year.

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– dagthegnome 29 points 4 years ago +29 / -0

Soon we'll have no language left to use as a frame of reference for what is actually normal.

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– deleted 17 points 4 years ago +17 / -0
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– GloboHomoErectus 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0

http://libgen.li/

You can find a fucking shitload of books and old dictionaries there.

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– aaaarg 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

The definitions in the dictionaries before the 60's are more or less trustworthy. Then political correctness came along to mess it all up.

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– WhoIsThatMaskedMan 11 points 4 years ago +11 / -0

Mark my words, at the rate they're actively destroying the language, English won't be the Lingua Franca any more in another 50 years. It'll probably be Chinese or Spanish.

Say what you will about South America, they tell it like it is. They don't tip toe around controversy and pick their words specifically so they're not offensive to anyone. You don't see activists trying to lobotomize the Spanish language, because most South Americans fight it.

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– Benevolentdictator 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

What about "Latinx"?

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– BidenLikesMiners 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

That was made by libshit first worlders, not the spanish.

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– WhoIsThatMaskedMan 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

You could argue that's actually an English word. It's used exclusively by English speaking westerners. It's not even pronounced like a Spanish word. Unless they start pronouncing it Latin Equis, it's an English bastardization.

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– BlueDrache 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

Spanish also has some brutish concepts ... constructs(?) in the way things are expressed. Much more simple than English. Almost like the difference between a normal meme (spanish) and a lefty meme (english).

That being said, though, I think that English is superior due to being able to express more nuances.

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– covok48 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

Precisely.

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– aaaarg 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

The factual normal is now seen as being 'abnormal'. What really is abnormal is the new 'normal'.

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– MGTAU 21 points 4 years ago +21 / -0

Okay I'm an antivaxxer. What now?

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– randomuser88385 14 points 4 years ago +14 / -0

Now you stop taking vaccines that you previously would have gotten. Easiest one for me is for flu. I've gotten it past several years, not getting it this year, and none of my family will either.

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– Benevolentdictator 14 points 4 years ago +14 / -0

Based on the almost undetectable flu numbers last year in North America, taking the influenza vaccine this year is almost as pointless as taking the COVID one.

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– BidenLikesMiners 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

yall member at the beginning of covi they were trying to tell everyone to take the flu vacc, that it would pretect you from covid. its all a big fucking sham.

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– deleted 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0
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– Benevolentdictator 12 points 4 years ago +12 / -0

Please stay in your home and the cattle car will soon roll by to get you.

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– Galean 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

Exactly what I was thinking. They did the same for racism, color-blindness and treating people equally is now racist, so now what?

By some retarded leftwing definition I'm antivax and racist, am I suppose to grovel?

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– AgnosticTemplar 15 points 4 years ago +15 / -0

And of course "opposes the use of vaccines" will be interpreted to encompass anyone who simply doesn't get one. If you ever skipped out on a flu shot for whatever reason, congratulations you're now a worse than a terrorist!

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– SparkMandrill83 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0

skipped out on a flu shot.

Ive never gotten the flu shot. Never gotten sick. Did people seriously regularly get it before?

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– deleted 7 points 4 years ago +7 / -0
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– AgnosticTemplar 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

Yeah, lots of people get them every year.

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– BidenLikesMiners 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

its similiart to the newish tranny hate laws - if you dont fuck a tranny then yiure a sexist bigot whos anti trans

i WONDER where its coming from🤔🤔🤔

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– FrostedCricketFlakes 11 points 4 years ago +11 / -0

They changed the definition of vaccine too

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– KekistanPM 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

They did. Now Vitamin C is technically a vaccine, as is sunlight.

Suits me; now I can tell people I'm vaccinated.

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– Clarice357 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

By changing the meaning of words, they hope to control thought and thus behavior.

They did the same with epidemic and vaccination earlier this year.

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– BidenLikesMiners 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

and when MS STARTED MAKING digital dictionariers - this was the reason why.

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– deleted 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0
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– realerfunction 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

i have every shot the doctor has offered, how am i anti-vax?

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– AntonioOfVenice [S] 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Cause the Party says you are...

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– deleted 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0
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– BidenLikesMiners 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

These are both shitty definitions.

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– covok48 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

Which is why I use urban dictionary. It’s more truthful than the established ones.

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– BidenLikesMiners 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-09/urban-dictionary-racist-aboriginal-entry-sparks-debate/9415618

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– covok48 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

It’s not perfect, still better than literally everyone else.

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– deleted 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

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