List of Liberal Code Phrases

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[paltz]

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John's List of Liberal Code Phrases

  Liberal politicians and media figures often put forth the claim that certain words, when used by conservatives, "really" mean something else, and must be translated for the general public to understand.

  Well, liberals have their own code phrases too. When you see or hear one of the following phrases from a liberal, you can simply substitute the real meaning, and then you can understand what they're talking about.

When liberals say	Normal people would have said	Example of use
activists	rabble
	advocate	rabble-rouser
affirmative action	exclusion of straight white males
alternative		1. aberrant 2. disgusting 3. self-destructive	"The Rainbow Cirriculum is designed to raise tolerance for alternative livestyles."
assault weapon	privately-owned weapon
balance	1. Two liberals arguing over the rate at which government should be expanded 2. Three or more liberals who are allowed to speak freely vs. one conservative who is never allowed to utter a complete sentence 3. Two or more liberals vs. congenitally insane person passed off as a conservative
Bible thumper	non-liberal Christian
big business	an operation that makes money but doesn't donate to liberals
can't	don't want to	"There must be a safety net for those who can't work."
censorship	the refusal to fund a liberal viewpoint	"Eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts is censorship."
compassion	tax increases		"Mr. Clinton today announced that compassion would be the cornerstone of his administration."
compromise with	cave in to	"We call upon the Republicans to compromise with President Clinton."
concerned citizen	Democratic Party contributor	"Today Mr. Gore met with concerned citizens in the Buddhist commmunity."
conservative bias		1. logic 2. reason 3. objectivity	"The Harvard faculty is careful to avoid conservative bias at all times."
disadvantaged	unproductive
draconian cut	1% reduction in spending
eco-friendly	1. expensive 2. shoddy 3. dangerous 4. made by brother-in-law of EPA administrator 5. any combination of the above
endangered species	evolutionary dead end
extremism	consistency
giving to	taking less from
hate speech	unvarnished truth	"The FCC should do something about the hate speech on Limbaugh's show."
homophobic	disputes claims of gay rights advocates
invest in	1. waste money on 2. give unearned money to	"We must invest in the developing nations and our own inner cities."
mean-spirited	practical	"The libertarian plan to eliminate the public schools is mean-spirited."
minority rights	privileges for a select few minority leaders
moderate	liberal
Nazi	conservative
oppress	ignore	"The conservatives plan to oppress the poor."
out of context	by an unbiased reporter		"Reverend Farrakhan stated that he had been quoted out of context."
racist	not biased against whites and Asians
religious right	neither atheist nor liberal
rich	1. not eligible for welfare 2. trailer home paid off 3. still has money left over after paying taxes 4. productive	"Mr. Clinton promised that any future tax increases would be borne by the rich."
right wing	non-liberal
sexist	not biased against men
	spending cut	smaller increase than what we wanted	"We object to the spending cut in the School Lunch Program."
slashed spending	spending neither increased nor decreased
starve	work for a living	"The Republican plan for welfare reform will cause the poor to starve."
taking from	giving less to
unfair towards	not rigged in favor of
vast right-wing conspiracy	collection of honest people	"...this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president."
war on the poor	tax cuts
warmonger	patriot
windfall profits	earnings

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[MHGinTN]

Reproductive choice = right to hire a serial killer to 'dispatch' an alive unborn child in a bloody rite of feminist passage; must be defended at all cost and regardless of the absurdities relied upon

[So Cal Rocket]

progressive = socialist

[MHGinTN]

Example of use : "This ban on partial birth slaughter of alive babies abortion is an assault on women's reproductive choice."

[correctthought]

Right to choose, freedom of choice: ability to practice infanicide.

[correctthought]

Sensible gun control - weapons ban

[correctthought]

good one

[RBroadfoot]

Sorry, there's an error in these definitions:

"draconian cut = 1% reduction in spending " is incorrect.

The correct definition for "draconian cut" is an increase that does not keep pace with increases in inflation and population.

Seldom indeed does a draconian cut involve an actual, absolute reduction in spending (unless it involved defense pre-911).

[Begin]

What? No mention of "hegemony"?

[correctthought]

So, take activists from the list= rabble rouser and add anti war = anti American = anti American rabble rouser. I like this list

[Dante3]

Seems liberals are more likely than others to use the term "community" such as the "obese community" instead of "obese people" and "gay community" when just gays would be sufficient.

[correctthought]

so community = special interest group.

[PRSOrlando]

intolerant bigot = a person who has morals and ethics.

[reformedliberal]

Ping for funny because it is true

[Diogenesis]

“If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 63 years old,
and she would have taken offense at this list, thread and website.”

Boston Globe

[Smartass]

Good post.

[PRSOrlando]

insurgent = a person who wants to kill all non-Muslims.
tolerance = throwing your morals out the window and accepting everything.
real journalism = biased propaganda of CNN, ABC, CBS, etc.

[Physicist]

sustainable = stagnant, nonexistent or negative

Usage: "As a democrat, I favor sustainable growth."

[Physicist]

winning life's lottery = success through hard and honest work

[lilylangtree]

This is quite accurate. Bible-Thumper = Conservative Christian

[Physicist]

oppress / ignore / "The conservatives plan to oppress the poor."

In this context, "oppress" doesn't mean "ignore"; it means "demand or expect effort from".

[Dan from Michigan]

"common sense gun laws" - weapons ban

"Gun safety"
Normal definition - NRA's gun safety and training programs.
Lefist definition - gun grabbing.

[InterceptPoint]

Don't forget:

Freedom Fighter = Terrorist
Resistance = Terrorist
Mujahideen = Terrorist

[Tribune7]

ping

[red-dawg]

"at the end of the day..." = Liberalspeak for "I just lied my butt off but here's a better way to put it so more people might believe it."

"re-double our effort" = Common sense shot our lousy idea out of the water but we will lie better next time.

[Baynative]

[little jeremiah]

"Hater" - someone who considers that moral restraint on sexual activity is a good thing.

"Intolerant" - someone who thinks promoting homosexuality is not a good thing.

Alternate meaning of "Meanspirited" - not wanting the gov't to take more and more of one's money to pour down liberal ratholes.

"Children" - those lucky ones who managed to run the gauntlet and survive 9 months in the womb.

"Partner" - who knows. Used to mean business partner, now it usually means sodomy buddy or unmarried live-in illicit paramour.

"Truth" - what liberals believe in. At the moment.

"God" - who liberals think they are. Only to be used subjectively.

[red-dawg]

Can anybody translate what this liberalspeak means?

"The Constitution is a living document."

[rodguy911]

Right on with the cuts. a 7% increase in a social program becomes a 5% cut when the rats asked for 12% to begin with. It's all so muych bogus "progressive" newspeak. In short the dem/rats know they can't win on most issues so they resort to their major technique to look good. They lie. And do it with a complicit press.

[lainde]

peace = jihad assisted national suicide

[TC Rider]

"The Constitution is a living document."

= Liberals will depend on activist judges to make up the parts of the Constitution they want, but would never dream of asking the people to ratify as an ammendment..

[DeweyCA]

"draconian cut = 1% reduction in spending " is incorrect. The correct definition for "draconian cut" is an increase that does not keep pace with increases in inflation and population.

The correct definition for "draconian cut" is an increase that is greater than the increase in inflation and population, but less than the average "baseline budgeting" projected increase of at least 14%.

[Baynative]

The Right to Choose = The right to choose AGAIN

[red-dawg]

Oh, I see.
As is "My Constitutionally protected right to an abortion."

[thoughtomator]

Don't forget:

"diversity" = "a larger than average number of uniformly left-wing and easily brainwashed"

[boop]

"Nuanced" = lying, flip-flopping. As in "John Kerry's vote against veterans was really FOR, them. It's just that his position is nuanced."

[snooker]

brutal firefight ... two guys firing guns in front of a TV camera

[wagglebee]

"unanimously elected popular leader" = murderous, tyranical dicator (Saddam Hussein)

[RBroadfoot]

No, that's just a "deep cut".

[Inyo-Mono]

"Native American"= "Indian"

[Copernicus]

Posted to *ccrm

[iamright]

Undocumented worker = Criminal invader remaining in the country illegally at the expense and risk of the law abiding citizen.

[Our man in washington]

unreasonable standards=standards

[Temple Owl]

Thanks for an excellent post.

[TalBlack]

"The Constitution is a living document."


Gladly: The Constitution serves US in our efforts to control YOU but it doesn't EVER control US.

[dagnabbit]

Liberalspeak: Safe medical procedure

Plain English: Torturing a baby to death

[quadrant]

Fascist: a catch-all phrase used when liberals are at a
uncertain what to label a conservative opponent

[RBroadfoot]

Liberalspeak: Safe medical procedure

Plain English: Only half of the patients intentionally die.

[maica]

Working families = those in the bottom 50% of taxfilers, who pay little or no income taxes.

Non-partisan = left leaning

Bi-partisan = doing things the way dems want

[StriperSniper]

BTTT