Language
Return to Common Sense
October 2, 2019
Section: Introduction
– Language
“Liberal newspeak isn’t the work of the engineers of the left, but
its marketers, who reframe everything in comforting language while teaching you
to use the appropriate terms that change the context completely.” Daniel
Greenfield.
“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and
chicanery, of party, function, and division of society.” John Adams
Philosophy
(Background, Issues, Objectives):
Political correctness is allowing
liberals to subvert our society.
- In George Orwell’s “1984”
doublespeak was the practice of
reversing or distorting words and phrases to achieve an ignoble end.
- Liberals have
morphed from reactionary lovers of the good old days into leftists
enamored with communism (anti-democracy) and socialism (anti-capitalism).
- Liberals have
embraced destroying and discrediting America as a vehicle to rebuild
America in their dis-proven economic and
governmental image.
- Each Saturday
Senate Democrat leaders map message points with congressional Democrat
guests booked on Sunday talk shows.
Kate
Swift and Casey Miller wrote The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing in 1981.
- The book served as a prototype of political
correctness writing.
- The book had two main premises, both of
them dubious.
o
The
first was that sexism and sexual discrimination were embedded in the English
language.
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The
second was that the language needed to be radically revised in order to change
society’s attitudes and make it more inclusive.
Political Correctness is Cultural Marxism.
- Political Correctness seeks to impose a uniformity of thought and
behavior and is quite totalitarian in nature.
- Political Correctness is a façade sold as tolerance and a
way to heave guilt upon soft consciences.
- Political Correctness is a yoke allowing the words of others to
shame us into silence or inaction.
- Political
Correctness, like Marxism (economics), uses a single factor (power) to
explain history.
- Both Political
Correctness and Marxism have a method of analyzing situation (deconstruction)
that automatically gives them the answers they want.
- Political
Correctness says that all history is determined by power, by which groups hae power over which
other groups.
- Both Political
Correctness and Marxism take from one to give to another (or keep for themselves).
The Left has twisted and redefined
certain words to further their agenda and silence dissent.
·
Tolerance – Political
“tolerance”
today is agree with me and endorse it and love it, or be branded an intolerant
bigot.
·
Hate –
If someone believes in absolute moral truth and is a sincere person of faith,
and objects to the ways some people are living their lives, then that person is
a “hater.”
·
Judging – If
you disagree with me, you are “judging” me, and that is just intolerable.
·
Justice/Equality – These
two terms mean some sort of “deficiency in our
culture” and the need to forcefully eradicate the perceived
deficiency.
·
Racism –
Racism is treating someone differently just because the color of their skin,
but now it includes intolerance any questions, criticism, or suggestion from
another race.
·
Gender/Sex – Sex
is male or female, but gender is a social construct to behave in certain
“acceptable
ways” depending on where you are on the “gender spectrum.”
The abuse of the word “justice” has become so widespread
that you can immediately identify the political slant of any group just by
looking for “justice” in
their name or literature.
- “Social justice”
refers to a controversial package of goals including political
redistribution of wealth, gay marriage, and a campaign against “institutional racism,”
“classism,” “ableism,”
and “heterosexism.”
- birthing justice
- climate justice
- disability
justice
- economic justice
- environmental
justice
- farmworker justice
- food justice
- gender justice
- health care
justice
- housing justice
- immigrant justice
- media justice
- prison justice
- racial justice
- reproductive
justice
- transformative
justice
- urban justice
- workplace justice
Even common phrases have morphed into
unintelligible bafflegab.
- Advocacy
Journalism is agenda driven indoctrination of
unsuspecting consumer.
- Alcoholics are
called Anti-sobriety Activists.
- Bum is called a Displaced individual.
- Community
Organizer is a government paid outside agitator.
- Crooks are
called Morally or Ethically
Challenged Individuals.
- Drug Addicts are
called Chemically Challenged.
- Federal Spending
is called Savings.
- Hunger is called
Very Low Food Security.
- Insane People
are called Selectively Perceptive.
- Objective,
fact-based evaluation of climate data is called Climate
Change Denier.
- Old People are
called Gerontologically Advanced.
- Overexpansion of
the Money Supply has been called Global Savings
Glut.
- Voter fraud
avoidance is called Voter Suppression.
Liberal euphemisms are used to
obfuscate imprecise language.
- Sometimes
it is hard to decipher what liberals really mean when they shout out their
rhetoric, their snazzy phrases, and meaningless, faux-academic diction.
- Equal rights for (fill in the blank) disguises the desire for preferential
treatment for (fill in the blank).
- Global warming /
global climate change disguises the theory
of man-made global climate change.
- Greenhouse gas
disguises the attack on carbon
dioxide - the essential ingredient for all plant life.
- Gun control
disguises desire to disarm the
law-abiding populace.
- The plight of
the homeless disguises people who are victims
of their own poor choices, with the exception of the mentally
incompetent.
- Public
assistance programs / government programs disguises desire for taxpayer-subsidized
entitlement programs /
taxpayer-funded appropriation.
- “Secure livelihoods” and
“strong economies”
refers to redistribution of wealth.
- Universal health
care disguises the desire for access to affordable health insurance.
Euphemisms have become a big part of the Obama
administration’s approach to the war on terror:
- “Outliers” is their kinder,
gentler term for “rogue states”
- “Al-Qaeda core” are the al-Qaeda
terrorists who survived the Bush presidency, then regrouped and multiplied
under the Obama presidency.
- “Overseas contingency operations” is the Obama
administration’s Orwellian term for ”the global war
on terror.”
- “Man-caused disaster” is the Obama-speak for “terrorist attack.”
- “Workplace violence” is how the Obama
administration describes Islamic terrorist attacks that take place at
work.
- Violent extremism is how the Obama
administration prefers to describe Islamic terrorism or jihadism because it gives them an opportunity to lump
in the KKK, IRA, and Nazi skinhead groups who all together commit about 1%
(or less) of terrorism.
- “Kinetic military action” is how the Obama
administration says “war” without upsetting anti-war groups.
- “Leading from behind” is Obama’s
“CYA” approach to foreign policy, which translates into,
“we’ll
wait until it’s too late to be effective, and when pressured, take
some modest steps, but don’t blame us when the excrement hits the
fan.” (Because it will.)
- “Strategic patience” is
related to Obama’s “leading from
behind” philosophy; used in place of “dithering,” or “kicking
the can down the road for the next president.”
- “Freedom Fighter” target
civilians vs. targeting military.
- “Aggressive interrogation” is
a means to disguise torture.
- Redeployment vs.
exit strategy (“cut and run” vs. strategic redeployment).
Transference is a political tactic used
to project personal shortcoming as opponent weakness.
- Accusation of Republican
voter disenfranchisement vs. Democrat convictions on voter intimidation.
- Republican
across the board tax cuts vs. Democrat charges of tax cuts for the rich.
- Republican
welfare reform vs. Democrat charges of targeting the poor.
Principles:
Accurate and descriptive terminologies
are required for understanding.
- Spin control is recasting the truth to sound better than it is.
- Hyperbole and demagoguery exaggerate and confuse understanding.
Recommendations:
Reject political correctness and
doublespeak.
Restore original objective meaning to
euphemisms and code words.
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