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Reclaiming Language from the Left
Jewish World Review ^ | 5/25/'10 | Carolyn Glick

Posted on 05/25/2010 2:19:33 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator

Over the past generation, the Left has commandeered our language. It has inverted the terminology of human rights, freedom, morality, heroism, democracy and victimization. Its perversion of language has made it nearly impossible for members of democratic, human rights respecting, moral societies to describe the threats they face from their human rights destroying, genocidal, tyrannical enemies. Thanks to the efforts of the international Left, the latter are championed as the victims of those they seek to annihilate.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Israel; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: left; newspeak; orwell
I apologize if this has already been posted, but I did title and keyword searches.
1 posted on 05/25/2010 2:19:34 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
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To: SJackson; justiceseeker93

For your interest.


2 posted on 05/25/2010 2:20:09 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Qumah, HaShem, veyafutzu 'oyeveykha, veyanusu mesan'eykha mippaneykha!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

The left, and their ideological father, have forever been hiding behind amorphous definitions and ambiguousness of ideas...

from
“did God REALLY say...”

to today’s politically correct speech,
calling swamps “wetlands”, and jungles “rain forests”,
and communists “progressives”


3 posted on 05/25/2010 2:23:18 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Golly, thanks Carolyn. Herbert Marcuse and others made it clear 2 generations ago that that is exactly what they were doing and teaching university students to do. Go look up “transvaluation of values”.

Isn’t it wonderful that “conservatives” are now discovering what people who were paying attentiopn knew forty and fifty years ago.


4 posted on 05/25/2010 2:24:16 PM PDT by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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To: MrB

“Those who control language control minds.” Ayn Rand.


5 posted on 05/25/2010 2:26:19 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
If you want to ‘reclaim’ the language. The first thing to get rid of is this notion of a ‘Palestinian’ people.

And Israel is the worst at promoting this false idea. There never was a Palestinian people. They were Jordanians.

There is and never has been a Palestinian government.
There is and never has been a Palestinian language.
There is and never has been a Palestinian culture.
There is and never has been a Palestinian people.

So why do I constantly hear the Israeli government refer to ‘Peace with the Palestinians’? It is one thing to hear the goyim perpetuate this falsehood(out of ignorance) but why hear it from Israeli's who know better?

These are primarily Jordanian, with a mix of Syria(and Lebanon by proxy), Iran, Yemeni, and other nationals, occupying parts of Israel. There is no Palestinian.

Get that straight first, and you can work on the rest later.

6 posted on 05/25/2010 2:41:10 PM PDT by 240B (he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Green is now what we used to call Pinko or Red.


7 posted on 05/25/2010 2:44:27 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Comrade O has to go; FIRE OBAMA NOW !!!)
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To: Lurker

“Those who control language control minds.” Ayn Rand.

Yes!

I actually think the left causes brain damage that in most cases can’t be reversed. This is the only explanation for some of the actions of liberals. By corrupting the language center of the brain they have lost the ability to reason on many levels.


8 posted on 05/25/2010 2:46:09 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: Zionist Conspirator
Dying from AIDS is sad

Sodomy is sad

Nothing gay or festive about perverse behavior.

9 posted on 05/25/2010 2:47:34 PM PDT by seton89 (Use Amendment X as your email signature)
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To: 240B
If you want to ‘reclaim’ the language. The first thing to get rid of is this notion of a ‘Palestinian’ people.

And Israel is the worst at promoting this false idea. There never was a Palestinian people. They were Jordanians.

Actually, the only Jordan is a river. The "Kingdom of Jordan" (formerly the "Kingdom of Transjordan," as opposed to "Cisjordan") is a wholly western created non-historical entity.

Arabs are Arabs. Period.

10 posted on 05/25/2010 3:01:42 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Qumah, HaShem, veyafutzu 'oyeveykha, veyanusu mesan'eykha mippaneykha!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
I understand that and agree.
It is frustrating to me that during the six day war, the west bank, Jerusalem, etc. was taken from Jordan.

The war was against Jordan. Jordan lost the war. Jordan lost the west bank. Jordan lost Jerusalem, not some fictitious ‘Palestinians’.

And if it wasn't for the curse inflicted on the Jews by the name ‘mishpachat Dayan’, things would be much different and much better today. IMO

11 posted on 05/25/2010 3:15:31 PM PDT by 240B (he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
This piece describes what the Left in America is doing and has been doing for many decades.

The last statement in this article should be a cautionary statement for all Americans who love liberty and the principles underlying their Constitution.

"This endless circle of demonization and aggression will continue to widen and escalate until our political leaders and our intellectual elite (substitute here, "We, the People) reclaim our language from those on the terror-abetting Left. True, our reclamation of our language will not go unopposed. But if we do not reassert our right to describe objective reality, our inability to explain why we are right and our detractors serve evil will be our undoing."

12 posted on 05/25/2010 3:34:43 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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13 posted on 05/26/2010 4:50:39 AM PDT by SJackson (Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided, Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: SJackson

AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!


14 posted on 05/26/2010 5:21:38 AM PDT by Quix (THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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To: SJackson

Not only have they hijacked our language, but our SYMBOLS as well.

The most egregious, IMNSHO, is the hijacking of the RAINBOW!


15 posted on 05/26/2010 6:24:58 AM PDT by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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To: precisionshootist
I actually think the left causes brain damage that in most cases can’t be reversed. This is the only explanation for some of the actions of liberals. By corrupting the language center of the brain they have lost the ability to reason on many levels.

That's the best diagnosis of my sister that I have ever read.

16 posted on 05/26/2010 7:36:55 AM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: 240B

Palestinian government: Southern Syrians were annexed into Jordan in ‘53. Northern Egyptians of Gaza were annexed into Egypt at the same time. Nobody minded, no resistance, no international outcries.
Palestinian language = Arabic with some Hebrew words mixed in.
Palestinian culture: Suicide bombs. Flag burnings. Hate rallies. Denial that major historical events ever happened, such as Holocaust, Solomon’s and Herod’s temples, Jooos ever living in Israel, all Jooo graves, shrines, temples and other edifices to be razed to the ground. Chase away all archaeologists.
Palestinian people: Southern Syrian and Northern Egyptian Arabic speakers, and only Moose Limbs, no Christians, no Druze, no Jooos, and no Samaritans. Anyone accused of “collaborating” to be summarily killed without trial. Whoever’s left alive is Palestinian.


17 posted on 05/26/2010 3:05:45 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ( Two-state solution: A bad idea whose time has gone.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

start with the word “liberal.”

The left is anything but.


18 posted on 05/26/2010 5:52:30 PM PDT by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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To: dervish

That’s why we need to follow Mark Levin’s lead, and refer to them more accurately as “Statists”.


19 posted on 05/26/2010 5:53:47 PM PDT by kevao
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To: Zionist Conspirator

“Settlers” should be renamed “Pioneers.”


20 posted on 05/26/2010 5:54:00 PM PDT by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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