Merriam-Webster Alters Definition Of Sexual “Preference” To Say It’s Offensive After Hirono Attacked Barrett For Using It

[martybegan]

I guess they have Winston Smith working for them.

Merriam-Webster alters definition of sexual "preference" to say it's offensive after Hirono attacked Barrett for using it

Check the Wayback Machine and you’ll find that Merriam-Webster’s definition of “preference” said nothing about the term being offensive as of September 28, the last time the page was archived. Today the label “offensive” has been attached, with this note about usage:

Usage of Preference
The term preference as used to refer to sexual orientation is widely considered offensive in its implied suggestion that a person can choose who they are sexually or romantically attracted to.

It’s … strange that the alleged offensiveness of the term came to M-W’s attention only recently if it’s “widely considered” to be taboo.

As for when, precisely, the definition was altered, presumably only the editors know. But there is this:

Looks like the page was updated on the very same day that Mazie Hirono went after Barrett for using the term “sexual preference” at her confirmation hearing. Fancy that.

The thing is there is no such thing as a memory hole (yet) when it comes to the internet, things are always archived, by multiple parties, so one can see if things were changed, and usually when they were changed.

Someone needs to tell Merriam-Webster that 1984 wasn't a how to manual.

 

[night_son]

I guess they have Winston Smith working for them.

Merriam-Webster alters definition of sexual "preference" to say it's offensive after Hirono attacked Barrett for using it

Check the Wayback Machine and you’ll find that Merriam-Webster’s definition of “preference” said nothing about the term being offensive as of September 28, the last time the page was archived. Today the label “offensive” has been attached, with this note about usage:

Usage of Preference
The term preference as used to refer to sexual orientation is widely considered offensive in its implied suggestion that a person can choose who they are sexually or romantically attracted to.

It’s … strange that the alleged offensiveness of the term came to M-W’s attention only recently if it’s “widely considered” to be taboo.

As for when, precisely, the definition was altered, presumably only the editors know. But there is this:

Looks like the page was updated on the very same day that Mazie Hirono went after Barrett for using the term “sexual preference” at her confirmation hearing. Fancy that.

The thing is there is no such thing as a memory hole (yet) when it comes to the internet, things are always archived, by multiple parties, so one can see if things were changed, and usually when they were changed.

Someone needs to tell Merriam-Webster that 1984 wasn't a how to manual.

So my wife and I bought the 1976 two volume edition of Funk and Wagnalls dictionary at an antique store yesterday. And I'll be damned if she didn't want to buy it for this exact reason. Wow.

 

[martybegan]

I guess they have Winston Smith working for them.

Merriam-Webster alters definition of sexual "preference" to say it's offensive after Hirono attacked Barrett for using it

Check the Wayback Machine and you’ll find that Merriam-Webster’s definition of “preference” said nothing about the term being offensive as of September 28, the last time the page was archived. Today the label “offensive” has been attached, with this note about usage:

Usage of Preference
The term preference as used to refer to sexual orientation is widely considered offensive in its implied suggestion that a person can choose who they are sexually or romantically attracted to.

It’s … strange that the alleged offensiveness of the term came to M-W’s attention only recently if it’s “widely considered” to be taboo.

As for when, precisely, the definition was altered, presumably only the editors know. But there is this:

Looks like the page was updated on the very same day that Mazie Hirono went after Barrett for using the term “sexual preference” at her confirmation hearing. Fancy that.

The thing is there is no such thing as a memory hole (yet) when it comes to the internet, things are always archived, by multiple parties, so one can see if things were changed, and usually when they were changed.

Someone needs to tell Merriam-Webster that 1984 wasn't a how to manual.

So my wife and I bought the 1976 two volume edition of Funk and Wagnalls dictionary at an antique store yesterday. And I'll be damned if she didn't want to buy it for this exact reason. Wow.

My mother has a 12 in thick dictionary, my great-grandfather's from the early 1900's. I may have to take a walk through it to see how things have changed.

 

[night_son]

 

[RodISHI]

I guess they have Winston Smith working for them.

Merriam-Webster alters definition of sexual "preference" to say it's offensive after Hirono attacked Barrett for using it

Check the Wayback Machine and you’ll find that Merriam-Webster’s definition of “preference” said nothing about the term being offensive as of September 28, the last time the page was archived. Today the label “offensive” has been attached, with this note about usage:

Usage of Preference
The term preference as used to refer to sexual orientation is widely considered offensive in its implied suggestion that a person can choose who they are sexually or romantically attracted to.

It’s … strange that the alleged offensiveness of the term came to M-W’s attention only recently if it’s “widely considered” to be taboo.

As for when, precisely, the definition was altered, presumably only the editors know. But there is this:

Looks like the page was updated on the very same day that Mazie Hirono went after Barrett for using the term “sexual preference” at her confirmation hearing. Fancy that.

The thing is there is no such thing as a memory hole (yet) when it comes to the internet, things are always archived, by multiple parties, so one can see if things were changed, and usually when they were changed.

Someone needs to tell Merriam-Webster that 1984 wasn't a how to manual.

So my wife and I bought the 1976 two volume edition of Funk and Wagnalls dictionary at an antique store yesterday. And I'll be damned if she didn't want to buy it for this exact reason. Wow.

My mother has a 12 in thick dictionary, my great-grandfather's from the early 1900's. I may have to take a walk through it to see how things have changed.

We have an 1800's dictionary. It is my favorite book.

 

[Sunni Man]

With the liberal commie PC cancel culture deciding which words are allowed to be written or spoken.
Dictionary's in the future will only consist of a couple of pages of approved words. ...

 

[Lysistrata]

What is a "sexual preference"?

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

I have printed dictionaries ranging from 1887 - 1989, including a 20-volume Oxford.

All pre-Newspeak.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

It just shows how the left is always actively trying to change the very language in an Orwellian way to justify
their political agenda.
A "preference" is not always a conscious choice one makes despite what Crazy Mazie Hirono attacked
ACB over on behalf of the LGBT lobby.

And Mirriam-Webster went back and altered their definition to back up Hirono. The Marxist left plays to
win, by any means necessary.

 

[Lysistrata]

I'm female and am attracted to males. Is this a preference? Some conscious choice that I made that I don't recall?

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

I'm female and am attracted to males. Is this a preference? Some conscious choice that I made that I don't recall?

Preferences aren't necessarily consciously made choices. Wake up!

noun: preference; plural noun: preferences

1. 1.
   a greater liking for one alternative over another or others.

 

[theHawk]

I'm female and am attracted to males. Is this a preference? Some conscious choice that I made that I don't recall?

So now you lefties are claiming sexual preference isn’t a choice, but gender is.

 

[theHawk]

I guess they have Winston Smith working for them.

Merriam-Webster alters definition of sexual "preference" to say it's offensive after Hirono attacked Barrett for using it

Check the Wayback Machine and you’ll find that Merriam-Webster’s definition of “preference” said nothing about the term being offensive as of September 28, the last time the page was archived. Today the label “offensive” has been attached, with this note about usage:

Usage of Preference
The term preference as used to refer to sexual orientation is widely considered offensive in its implied suggestion that a person can choose who they are sexually or romantically attracted to.

It’s … strange that the alleged offensiveness of the term came to M-W’s attention only recently if it’s “widely considered” to be taboo.

As for when, precisely, the definition was altered, presumably only the editors know. But there is this:

Looks like the page was updated on the very same day that Mazie Hirono went after Barrett for using the term “sexual preference” at her confirmation hearing. Fancy that.

The thing is there is no such thing as a memory hole (yet) when it comes to the internet, things are always archived, by multiple parties, so one can see if things were changed, and usually when they were changed.

Someone needs to tell Merriam-Webster that 1984 wasn't a how to manual.

This is so they can justify and normalize pedophilia. Sexual attraction is a preordained “orientation”, thus it must be allowed.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

I tried to explain homosexuality to our youngest, got done and she looked at me and said "that's crazy talk, Mommy"

 

[Lysistrata]

I'm female and am attracted to males. Is this a preference? Some conscious choice that I made that I don't recall?

So now you lefties are claiming sexual preference isn’t a choice, but gender is.

You are the ones making these distinctions. A person is whomever s/he defines themself as. It comes from within. we do not understand the in's and out's of human sexuality, where it comes from and where it goes.

 

[theHawk]

I'm female and am attracted to males. Is this a preference? Some conscious choice that I made that I don't recall?

So now you lefties are claiming sexual preference isn’t a choice, but gender is.

You are the ones making these distinctions. A person is whomever s/he defines themself as. It comes from within. we do not understand the in's and out's of human sexuality, where it comes from and where it goes.

Nature makes the distinction for gender.

 

[Lysistrata]

I'm female and am attracted to males. Is this a preference? Some conscious choice that I made that I don't recall?

So now you lefties are claiming sexual preference isn’t a choice, but gender is.

You are the ones making these distinctions. A person is whomever s/he defines themself as. It comes from within. we do not understand the in's and out's of human sexuality, where it comes from and where it goes.

Nature makes the distinction for gender.

So you will accept whatever comes of it. You seem to understand why I would welcome one male and reject the next. You know so much, so come on and tell it.

 

[Godboy]

What is a "sexual preference"?

As a heterosexual male, my sexual preference is women.

 

[Godboy]

I'm female and am attracted to males. Is this a preference? Some conscious choice that I made that I don't recall?

Yes, you would prefer to have sex with a man over a woman, right? I mean technically speaking, you could have sex with a woman, but you dont want to, right?

Turning "sexual preference" into a naughty word is fucking stupid. No one is going to get behind this madness. This shit makes you lefties look retarded.

 

[Natural Citizen]

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I usually like the Noah Webster American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Black's Law Dictionary for Legal reference. Then I like the Noah Webster Bible (1833) for biblical reference.

Can't recall ever flipping through Funk & Wagnalls dictionaries.