Third Way released a list of words it believes Democratic politicians should avoid, labeling some terms as "wildly out-of-touch social positions." The list includes neutral community descriptors such as LGBTQIA and BIPOC alongside terminology like privilege, microaggression, allyship, cisgender, and person who immigrated. Third Way argued that such language can sound extreme, divisive, elitist, and alienating on cultural issues. The group denied seeking to police language, while observers noted the list's similarity to former President Trump's banned-words guidance and related federal orders that removed DEI references and mandated recognition of only two sexes.
Centrist think tank Third Way recently released a list of words it believes Democratic politicians should avoid, referring to them as "wildly out-of-touch social positions." The list includes even neutral community descriptors such as "LGBTQIA" and "BIPOC." "The effect of this language is to sound like the extreme, divisive, elitist, and obfuscatory, enforcers of wokeness," the group wrote. "To please the few, we have alienated the many - especially on culture issues, where our language sounds superior, haughty and arrogant."
Words on the list include: privilege, triggering, othering, microaggression, holding space, body shaming, subverting norms, systems of oppression, cultural appropriation, existential threat, the unhoused, food insecurity, housing insecurity, person who immigrated, birthing person, cisgender, deadnaming, heteronormative, patriarchy, LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, allyship, and incarcerated people.
Third Way insisted that it is "not out to police language, ban phrases or create our own form of censorship" - though its list is eerily similar to Donald Trump's list of banned words. His administration issued the guidance after he signed executive orders removing all references to DEI in the federal government, as well as mandating that the federal government deny the existence of trans people by recognizing only two sexes despite the scientific and medical consensus that sex is a spectrum.
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