Yes, Ben, but once again you over intellectualize the problem. The Democrats, the left, are crazy dishonest trouble makers of the highest order. They deserve no more linguistic correction than the forcefully spoken “F off!”.
Stop coddling child abusers and political charlatans. Denounce them and trounce them.
Ben Shapiro, the one who endorsed Michelle Field’s accusation that Corey Lewandowski knocked her to the ground.
Shapiro is not an honest broker himself.
In this piece, he offers no thoughts about how to counter or remedy the abuse of language, no suggestion about how to reframe debate, to avoid the all too common traps of arguing over labels and chasing red-herrings (facts that don’t determine the outcome, like “hearsay” in whisleblowing or “secret” in conducting investigations, but are treated as determining the outcome).
Uh, he did just that.
Is it over-intellectualizing the problem, or just monetizing it? Looks like the old Conservative, Inc. model — make a comfortable living chatting up the destruction of civilization. Get it while you can, I guess.
He hit it out of the park. Whoever controls the language controls the conversation and sets the ground rules for discussion. By letting the Left manipulate the language to their liking we have yielded the field to them for going on 50 years. Every issue is discussed using their interpretation of the meanings of the words being used. Probably the best example is the word ‘Gay’. There is nothing ‘Gay’ about the perverted lifestyle of homosexuals, but partly because we are all lazy and ‘Gay’ is shorter than homosexual, but mostly because that is the word the left has taught is the proper word to describe the lifestyle we all use it. Yes we all know what it means, but doesn’t the word ‘Gay’ give the lifestyle a more benign aura to it than homosexual or sodomite? The are many others such words, for example, (and this might get me censored even on this conservative site) but Blacks are given free range to use the word ‘nigger’, but let a white person or a conservative Black person use it, even in a scholarly dissertation, and they can lose their livelihood.
Mr. Shapiro is dead on in his appraisal, and sadly it is, like so many others, a battle in the culture wars we’ve already lost.