Webster's Announces "They' As 'Word Of The Year,' More Liberal Indoctrination

One thing liberals love to do is to change things in society to make what is not normal appear to be normal.

They do this in various ways, from teachers in schools indoctrinating kids into their ideals, to celebrities doing the same to adults.

But one of the most clandestine ways they achieve their goals is to change language so that, slowly, people become accustomed to accommodating their insanity.

Remember the words policeman, mailman, fireman or stewardess? They have become police officer, mail carrier, firefighter and flight attendant.

We have gotten used to those words and for the most part we have learned to deal with them. But now they have reached peak insanity.

Merriam-Webster has named the word “they” as the Word of the Year for 2019 and the reason for it is astonishing.

Our Word of the Year for 2019 is they. It reflects a surprising fact: even a basic term—a personal pronoun—can rise to the top of our data. Although our lookups are often driven by events in the news, the dictionary is also a primary resource for information about language itself, and the shifting use of they has been the subject of increasing study and commentary in recent years. Lookups for they increased by 313% in 2019 over the previous year. 

English famously lacks a gender-neutral singular pronoun to correspond neatly with singular pronouns like everyone or someone, and as a consequence they has been used for this purpose for over 600 years.

More recently, though, they has also been used to refer to one person whose gender identity is nonbinary, a sense that is increasingly common in published, edited text, as well as social media and in daily personal interactions between English speakers. There’s no doubt that its use is established in the English language, which is why it was added to the Merriam-Webster.com dictionary this past September.

Nonbinary they was also prominent in the news in 2019. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (WA) revealed in April during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Equality Act that her child is gender-nonconforming and uses they. Singer Sam Smith announced in September that they now prefer they and them as their third person personal pronouns. And the American Psychological Association’s blog officially recommended that singular they be preferred in professional writing over “he or she” when the reference is to a person whose gender is unknown or to a person who prefers they. It is increasingly common to see they and them as a person’s pronouns in Twitter bios, email signatures, and conference nametags.

This is the type of thing that is not OK to brush aside as more liberal nonsense and allow it to change as we have done for other words.

In the case of words that describe professions it is appropriate to change the words as there are women who do those jobs.

Although words like police woman and mail woman would have also worked, it is not a major deal to accommodate that.

But when you are asking people to use the word “they,” a plural word for all of human history, to accommodate the mental delusions of some people that is too far.

If the language is allowed to continue being changed to appease a fringe group then we will no longer have the society we want.

If someone has the serious mental issue of believing that they do not belong to a gender, or belong to more than one gender, fine, we cannot tell people what to believe.

But they cannot demand that the rest of society placate them and play along with their delusion.