The new war on words

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Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.2 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Many on the political right accuse the left of policing what people can and can't say. Now, the Trump administration is cracking down on words related to diversity and inclusion. Has a so-called 'woke right' replaced the so-called 'woke left?'

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0:43.0	I'm Deborah Becker, in for Magnichakrabardi.
0:45.6	The fight over the power of language seems to have taken a twist.
0:49.9	Many conservatives have long accused the left of policing language saying that liberals are trying
0:55.8	to dictate speech.
0:57.6	Midwives have been told to say chest feeding instead of breastfeeding and to replace the term
1:02.0	mother with mother or birthing parent.
1:04.0	The left says you can identify as anything.
1:06.2	You can get a tree, six genders, you cannot identify as a black conservative.
1:10.4	This whole crazy left-wing idea that we're not allowed to debate ideas,
1:15.7	that we're not allowed to discuss things, that we have to silence people, censor them.
1:20.1	What's next?
1:20.9	Well, the Ninja Turtles apologize for appropriating karate.
1:25.9	Are the X-Men now, the Latin X-Men.
1:29.3	That was conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, Fox News host Jesse Waters, and Vice President J.D. Vance.
1:36.5	Conservatives say this so-called speech policing is pushing a, quote, woke ideology.
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