| | | donsurber.blogspot.com The Lexicon of Lefties
To control the language is to control the conversation, and face it, lefties are good at it.
All summer long, riots were referred to as mostly peaceful protests. Anarchists destroyed billions of dollars worth of property and stole millions of dollars in merchandise, under the guise of protest. This disinformation was important in gaining public acceptance of the unacceptable.
Systemic racism is another term that is very useful. It does two things. First, it relieves the aggrieved of the nuisance of citing an actual act of racism. Why bother hiring a couple of Nigerians to fake beating you up when you can just say two magic words?
Second, it relieves people of any responsibility for their poor choices and the poor outcomes that go with them. It's the system, man.
David Horowitz wrote, "Systemic racism has been outlawed in America since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If there were actual instances of systemic racism in 2020, there would be lawsuits – plenty of them. Even making the racist assumption, which the Identity Politics crowd does make, that all white people are white supremacists by dint of their skin color, there are tens of thousands of black lawyers, prosecutors, district attorneys, attorneys general, and elected officials who would be filing lawsuits over a practice that is illegal. You never hear of massive lawsuits over systemic racism, because systemic racism is a myth. The myth lives because it is an indispensable weapon wielded by Democrats to advance their anti-democratic agendas and quests for power."
Hate speech is another very powerful phrase because it too relieves the aggrieved of having to prove anything. All you need are hurt feelings.
J.K. Rowling got in trouble for mocking the phrase people who menstruate. Only women menstruate. The truth hurts, therefore we must ban the truth.
Nevermind that the First Amendment's protection of free speech was written specifically to protect hate speech.
Lefties outdid themselves decades ago when they came up with reverse racism. The phrase mocks any complaint about racial discrimination against whites, which simultaneously dismisses anti-white racism as non-existent while at the same time implying such racism is reverse and therefore justified because of past racism against black people. Never mind that the victim of anti-white bias had nothing to do with past discrimination. It is payback time.
Climate change is a great way to sell the de-industrialization of the West. America was the Arsenal of Democracy in World War II. The left won't make that mistake again.
There is a reason Earth Day falls on Lenin's birthday. Environmentalism is the left's gift to him.
Then there is normal. From the time he was nominated until he was inaugurated, the media declared it would not normalize President Donald John Trump. Since then, the media has complained that nothing about his administration is normal.
Finally, killing babies in the womb is reproductive rights, which when you come down to it is like calling castration coital rights.
Words matter. If I did not think they mattered, I would not be a writer.
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