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[VIDEO] How the Left perverts language to advance political ends

April 30, 2018 by Bookworm Leave a Comment

Prager U is out with another video, this one detailing the ways in which the Left perverts language to advance both political and cultural goals.

Left perverts languageThere is nothing new about the way in which the Left perverts language to achieve its political ends. After all, a significant part of Orwell’s 1984 focuses on the way in which totalitarian government deliberately, and with force of arms, uses a language called “Newspeak” to pervert, degrade, and diminish speech. It does so to limit people’s ability to think and to advance its political objectives.

I’ve periodically written here about my hatred for Leftist language manipulation, with my most recent attacking multiple Leftist euphemisms, including that abhorrent, dishonest phrase “undocumented immigrants.” It turns out I could have saved the time and energy it took me to write that post (although I think it’s worth a read). Prager University is just out with a new video featuring Michael Knowles providing a pithy rundown of the Lefts’ worst linguistic offenders:

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Filed Under: Lefties on Parade Tagged With: 1984, Euphemisms, Language, Michael Knowles, Newspeak, Orwell, Prager U

Can we stop using euphemisms that implicitly accept Leftist ideas?

February 5, 2018 by Bookworm 22 Comments

When the Left uses euphemisms, it does not do so to be kind; it does so to set the agenda for immigration, trans activism, and other Leftist policies.

Transgender euphemisms doesn't cover thisI am not a fan of euphemisms. I’ve always struggled a bit reading people’s emotions (I was probably on the Asperger’s scale before they had a name for it), so I prefer straight speaking, whether I’m saying it or hearing it. Demanding precise word choices means that I actually understand what the conversation is about, without having to struggle to find and then translate subtexts.

Having inadvertently offended people over the years, however, I now know that I periodically need to use euphemisms, something I do as a conscious effort to avoid giving offense where I intend none. (I especially use euphemisms regarding death. To say that someone’s loved one is “dead” has a cruel finality that softens with the phrase “passed away.”) I use them but, subject to the aforementioned exception, I don’t like them.

I especially dislike euphemisms when the Lefties put them out there. One of the most brilliant things Trump did in his State of the Union Speech was to deny the Left the word Dreamers, a euphemism they dreamed up for illegal aliens. Now Americans are the dreamers, which renders the world powerless as a form of Leftist thought control.

And you’ll notice I referred to illegal aliens. I drive my Progressive Facebook friends crazy when I correct their phrase “undocumented immigrants.” These are not people who have stood in line and filled out forms, only to forget some teeny bureaucratic detail. These are people who sneaked into America, knowing that doing so was against this country’s laws. That they are not citizens means that they are “aliens,” and that they broke the law to get here means that the are “illegal aliens.” Pretty clear, right?

The same is true with the euphemistic phrase that “Islam is a Religion of Peace.” Yes, if you accept Tacitus’s way of defining Roman peace: “They make a desert and call it peace.” Or yes, if assume Leftists’ failed  spelling and actually meant “Islam is a Religion of Pieces — the tiny little pieces of blown-up, incinerated, mutilated, sliced human bodies. Those kind of pieces.”

Oh, and God do I hate the whole “trans” thing. I especially hate the fact that so many conservative outlets refer to “transgenders,” and “transgender woman” or a “transgender man.” Take for example the pathetic Rose McGowan’s outburst at a bookstore the other day, when she was shilling her new book about a life filled with abuse. (I do mean it when I say she’s pathetic. Her life started with her parents abusing her with bizarre sex cults and abandonment. No wonder that predators such as Weinstein saw her as an easy mark. Predators have a knack for finding people already made vulnerable by past life experiences.)

But to my point, here are headlines from conservative outlets:

WATCH: Rose McGowan GOES OFF On Transgender Heckler: ‘Shut The F*** Up!’

Rose McGowan Loses Her Mind When Transgender Calls Her ‘White Cis Feminist’

Video – Rose McGowan Gets in Screaming Match with Trans Woman

Rose McGowan gets into shouting match with transgender woman, cancels all public appearances

Each of those headlines implicitly accepts that the heckler in the audience actually is “transgender”; indeed, a “trans woman.” Talk about science denial. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Donald Trump, GBLT, Gender, Immigration, Lefties on Parade Tagged With: Birth Control Pill, Dreamers, Euphemisms, illegal aliens, Illegal immigrants, SOTU, the Pill, Trans Man, Trans Woman, Transgender, Trump, Undocumented Immigrants

Life imitates the Simpsons

April 10, 2009 by Bookworm 6 Comments

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano: “I referred to “man-caused” disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.”

The Pentagon:  “This administration prefers to avoid using the term ‘Long War’ or ‘Global War on Terror’ [GWOT.] Please use ‘Overseas Contingency Operation.’ ”

Mr. Burns:  “Oh, meltdown. It’s one of those annoying buzzwords. We prefer to call it an ‘unrequested fission surplus.'”  (From The Simpsons, Season 3, episode 5, “Homer defined.”)

Cross-posted at Right Wing News

Filed Under: Silly Stuff Tagged With: Euphemisms, The Simpsons

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