The murder hornet is not the only bug in need of a politically correct name change. The latest disease to be spread through the establishment-endorsed LGBT lifestyle continues to be known by the politically incorrect term “monkeypox.” The leftists in charge of our largest city slither to the rescue:

New York City asked the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday to rename the monkeypox virus to avoid stigmatizing patients…

Due to its characteristic degeneracy, NYC has seen more monkeypox cases than any other American city.

[NYC Department of Health Commissioner Ashwin] Vasan referenced the “painful and racist history within which terminology like (monkeypox) is rooted for communities of color.”

Actually, monkeypox is rooted in the community of gayness, not color. Its connection to the sacred (to progressives) practice of homosexuality inspired the World Health Organization to declare it a global health emergency, despite only five deaths worldwide. Practically the only way nonhomosexuals contract it is by being little kids left in the custody of the affected community.

Nonetheless, for moonbats everything is always about race. The WHO announced last month that it would change the name “monkeypox” for being racist, but hasn’t gotten around to it.

Why exactly is “monkeypox” racist? Like many exotic diseases (e.g., AIDS), it is an export from Africa. Blacks also come from Africa. The liberals who decide what we can and cannot say appear to equate blacks with monkeys.

Calling monkeypox “monkeypox” will be an official thought crime as soon as the authorities tell us what we are supposed to call it instead. In the meantime, don’t you dare draw attention to the way it is spread, or a Fox Business panel might denounce you as a bigot:

On tips from Bluto and Wiggins.

As progress progresses, the Ministry of Truth works feverishly to keep the Newspeak Dictionary up to date. Murder hornets have a new name because racism:

The Entomological Society of America and the Entomological Society of Canada have adopted a new name for the murder hornet, also known as the Asian giant hornet, saying “the usage of ‘Asian’ in the name of a pest insect can unintentionally bolster anti-Asian sentiment” especially “amid a rise in hate crimes and discrimination against people of Asian descent.”

There is no significant discrimination against people of Asian descent in America. There are hate crimes, but they are not committed by people who have any idea that murder hornets are also called “Asian giant hornets.” They are committed by resentful urban blacks taking advantage of the collapse of law & order under liberal rule (see here, here, and here).

However, the point of Newspeak Dictionary updates is not to address reality, but to obfuscate it — often with virtue signaling intended to prop up the bogus liberal narrative.

Chris Looney, entomologist at the Washington State Department of Agriculture, authored the name change proposal, saying that the previous common name of the species, scientifically called Vespa mandarinia, “is at best a neutral and uninformative adjective, potentially a distraction from more salient characters of the organism, and at worst a racist trope.”

Seriously, the moonbat’s name really is Looney. We are living in an over-the-top comedy devoted to ridiculing liberals. If you don’t believe it, find any clip of Kamala “Heartbeat Away” Harris speaking publicly. The satire isn’t subtle.

On a tip from Steve T.

The Newspeak Dictionary is revised constantly so as to control our thoughts by controlling our vocabulary. Usually this is applied to cultural issues, because politics is downstream of culture. But this method of manipulation can be applied to any topic, including economics. The word “recession” has not been abolished yet — but it has now been redefined:

For a sensible definition of “recession” and related terms, we can paraphrase Ronald Reagan. Recession is when your neighbor loses his job; depression is when you lose yours; recovery is when Democrats have been pried loose from power.

On a tip from Occam’s Stubble.

Normally, revisions to the Newspeak Dictionary entail erasing words that we are no longer allowed to use, on the principle that by restricting our vocabulary, social engineers can restrict our thoughts. Sometimes, however, our moonbat rulers add new words — like “heteropessimism.”

Via Salon:

Heteropessimism is a new word for an intuitive, possibly very old, concept in white Western culture. Coined in 2019 by writer Asa Seresin, heteropessimism is an attitude of disappointment, embarrassment or despair at the state of heterosexual relations – specifically about being in one.

Seresin’s definition is useful because this pessimism is accompanied by the paradoxical practice of sticking with heterosexuality in its current forms, even as it is judged to be “irredeemable.”

The proposed solution is for us to abandon normal, natural, healthy relationships and embrace alternative sexuality.

This will stop us from reproducing, so that our carbon emissions will no longer threaten to inconvenience the polar bears. As we wait to go extinct, we can enjoy the many exotic diseases that are spread through the homosexual lifestyle, now including monkeypox.

If there is despair in sexual relations, it is because feminism, degeneracy, and other aspects of the leftist mindset have poisoned them. To enable stable and fulfilling relationships, reject moonbattery and embrace the traditional values that served us so well for millennia.

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.

At first glance, postmodernism appears to be a juvenile posture, an ironic embrace of literal insanity that no one outside of academia would have time for. Yet it forms the basis of critical theory, the ideology of our ruling class. This is because postmodernism focuses on power and provides useful tactics for securing it.

Postmodernists hold that objective reality is nonexistent or irrelevant. What matters is the alternative reality they can create through control of language. That is why liberals are obsessed with policing what we can say.

It is not by accident that swamps are now called “wetlands,” bums are called “homeless,” and privileges bestowed by authoritarians are called rights — as a master countermoonbat explains in the video below. Via Thomas Sowell Wisdom:

This is why progressive revisions to the Newspeak Dictionary are relentless, and why they must be ignored.

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

As the medical profession succumbs to moonbattery, diseases cannot even be named, lest those afflicted by them feel stigmatized. Consequently, “morbid obesity” has been struck from the medical edition of the Newspeak Dictionary, woke researchers having denounced it as offensive.

Critics … slammed the recommendation, published in a leading obesity journal, saying it was ‘odd’ given morbid obesity is a clinical term.

Sure, it is a clinical term — just like a certain form of sexual depravity was listed in the DSM that clinicians are now required to affirm, revere, and encourage rather than acknowledge as an unhealthy disorder. Progress keeps marching.

[I]ndustry experts agreed that ‘less stigmatising’ language was crucial in the battle against the bulge, saying ‘words truly do matter’.

Joe Nadglowski, president of the Obesity Action Coalition, said: ‘The old expression “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” doesn’t apply for those living with obesity.’

These days, it doesn’t apply for anybody. You don’t bully people with sticks and stones anymore. You bully them by accusing them of bullying you.

It comes after a separate team of researchers claimed the word obesity is racist and should be dropped in favour of ‘people in larger bodies’.

If a word is racist, that settles it. From now on, it must be referred to only as the O-word.

Looks like a journal needs a name change:

The proposed change to obesity language was made by a group of British experts writing in the journal Obesity, which describes itself as ‘the premier source of information… for people with obesity’.

The term “morbid obesity” describes a body mass index over 35, which is associated with a high risk of death. But death is no big deal in our culture compared to offensiveness.

The next step is for oncology journals to ban the word “cancer.” Telling people they have cancer makes them feel bad.

On a tip from Franco.

Someone needs to get word to the servile liberals running the NFL. Like the Washington Redskins, the Kansas City Chiefs require a name change, as the word “chief” has been stricken from the English language by wokescolds:

The San Francisco Unified School District announced it will remove the word from its jobs titles. …

The school district said the decision was prompted after concerns were raised by Native American community members, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Indians must get a kick out of crybullying palefaces by pretending that anodyne words offend them. By agreeing to delete words from our own language on an arbitrary basis, we kneel in obeisance before them. Dominance and submission are the point of designating language as “offensive.”

Although libs apparently think otherwise, “chief” is not from any Indian language. It has been an English word meaning “head of a group” dating back to before the discovery of the New World. Like a lot of English vocabulary, it comes from a French word that in turn comes from a Latin word.

Sniggers the Wall Street Journal,

“Farewell great Chiefe,” says a character in Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra.” That’s dated to the early 1600s. Somehow we doubt he was thinking about the Sioux. A biblical translation from William Tyndale in 1526 speaks of “the power of Belzebub, the chefe of the devyls.” The earliest examples are hard to parse unless you’re fluent in Beowulfese, but here’s one we grasp from 1483, a decade before Columbus sailed to the west: “She was made abbesse and chyef of al the monasterye.”

Don’t San Francisco schools have English teachers who can explain this?

Probably not. English teachers specialize in moonbattery now, and have little time for anything else.

Stand by for more petty tyranny directed at the English language. The US Department of the Interior, which is run by a radical leftist you had better not call a squaw, spends some of the money confiscated from us through taxation and inflation on a Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force.

On tips from Wiggins and Varla.