THE MORNING RANT: Undocumented Texans, Festive Live Trees, and the Ongoing Euphemism Treadmill

Amidst all the recent chatter about the collapse in trust given to the legacy media, I haven’t seen the media’s Orwellian alteration of language listed as being one of the reasons. We’ve all laughed at “gender assigned at birth” and we’ve even mocked a few terms back out of use, such as “Latinx” but the corrupt media is unrelenting in its effort to eradicate certain truths and ideas by eliminating the necessary language to describe those concepts.

A couple of new additions to the euphemism treadmill that I saw this week were:

FESTIVE LIVE TREES

Whoever runs the Twitter account for News Channel 5 in Nashville (WTVF) apparently finds the word “Christmas” so offensive and triggering that a tweet regarding a story about Christmas tree recycling used the clumsy term “festive live trees” instead of Christmas trees.

This is going to make caroling a little more difficult…

“O festive live tree, O festive live tree, of all the trees most lovely…”

UNDOCUMENTED TEXANS

The Texas Tribune is really struggling with how to eliminate even the concept of there being foreign nationals in this country illegally, while still advocating for them and covering their plight. Having moved from “illegal alien” (the actual legal term) to “illegal immigrant” to “undocumented migrant,” the Tribune is now trying to erase the notion that there is even a foreign provenance in the subject matter, so they rolled out a comical new term this month, ”Undocumented Texans”.

Be careful, though, if you start using the abbreviated term “undocumenteds” in lieu of “illegals.” I’m sure that “undocumenteds” will also be pronounced racist very shortly.

In fact, I already see the media contorting itself into not using the word “undocumented” too. The phrase “people living in the United States without authorization” is gaining traction among the propaganda media. This is from a recent Los Angeles Times article.

Trump has promised to conduct the largest deportation operation in American history, something that would upend the lives of the 11 million people living in the United States without authorization.

I may need to start a new periodic series highlighting additions to the media’s euphemism treadmill.

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posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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