Letters to the Editor
Making War With Words
It has been observed that language gets corrupted for specific political ends by changing the meaning of commonly used words to control the people who use them. Words that have been weaponized by the Left include bipartisanship, reproductive rights, choice, identity, progress, fairness, trans, climate, homeless, health, free, homophobe, Islamophobe, white privilege, hate speech, gender, offensive, collaboration, oppressed, repressed, indigenous, compromise, multicultural, comprehensive immigration reform, undocumented, community, green, global, consensus, change agent, equity, inequity, and moderate, as well as the always reliable dead mules of doublespeak: diversity and tolerance.
Words are now used, and understood, in an almost opposite way from their original meanings, along political lines to produce revolutionary emotionalism and mono-thought. This is why Adolf Hitler, quintessential socialist and a leading light on the Left, had a formal propaganda ministry. It’s both cautionary and instructive that he believed the masses’ ability to understand is both restricted and feeble. Bent language produces bent minds.
Mike Goodpaster
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