When words are cancelled overnight because the wrong person uses them

Joe Biden used the term “sexual preference” as recently as May of this year.

Saint Ginsburg said it in 2017

Yesterday Barrett Coney used it, the Senate’s dumbest member denounced her, and the Twitter world went wild.

So overnight, Merriam-Webster has declared “sexual preference” “offensive”.

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 took almost six years to move from opposition to gay marriage, as Obama and Clinton did in 2008, to brand Chick-fil-A to be banished from airports, college campuses and blue cities because the founder once declared that a marriage was the union of a man and a woman. That process has now been compressed to twelve hours.