Democrats need to knock it off with the “tortured language,” says a new report. “Democrats and their allies use an awful lot of words and phrases no ordinary person would ever dream of saying,” the report says. Some examples include: Dialoguing, othering, triggering, centering, microaggressions, postmodernism, the unhoused (by which they mean homeless), heteronormative, intersectionality… Why do they do this? It’s as if they fetishize academia and use it to talk down to people. It doesn’t make them sound smarter—it just alienates voters who don’t live on college campuses. The report acknowledges that when people use this language, it signals that they belong to a group that is in favor of “cancellation, doxing, or trouble with HR if they make a mistake.” This causes people to “leave” the conversation. This doesn’t mean that Democrats can’t care about these things but they should not be overly pedantic about it. The word “pedantic” is probably problematic too but it describes Democrats so well that I can’t resist. Pedantic: narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned. The post Democrats’ Language Problem appeared first on Redacted.