The Left and the Control of Meaning

American Thinker ^ | 3 Oct, 2021 | S.R. Piccoli

[MtnClimber]

Has the left won the battle over semantics?

So YouTube is banning all content they say is spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine. “Working closely with health authorities, we looked to balance our commitment to an open platform with the need to remove egregious harmful content,” the video-sharing platform said in a September 29 statement posted to its blog. “We’ve steadily seen false claims about the coronavirus vaccines spill over into misinformation about vaccines in general, and we’re now at a point where it’s more important than ever to expand the work we started with COVID-19 to other vaccines.” In response, YouTube taking action in censoring anti-vaccine content has been immediately celebrated by liberal journalists and members of the media. “Finally! good grief,” Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin wrote. “This is good news, but it’s a little too late,” Salt Lake Tribune correspondent Bryan Schott reacted.

This is just one of the latest examples of censorship that are taking place throughout the U.S. Whether it is anti-vaccine content or politically incorrect discourse, free speech is under heavy attack in America. Take the case of philosopher and pedagogist Peter Boghossian, a Portland State University professor who recently resigned from his position in a searing open letter in which he accused the administration of fostering an environment hostile to intellectual inquiry and dissent. “Students at Portland State are not being taught to think. Rather, they are being trained to mimic the moral certainty of ideologues,” he wrote. “Faculty and administrators have abdicated the university’s truth-seeking mission and instead drive intolerance of divergent beliefs and opinions.

[MtnClimber]

[sauropod]

bkmk

[Bookshelf]

“We’ve steadily seen false claims about the coronavirus vaccines spill over into misinformation about vaccines in general.” Ever notice that such claims are never followed by examples?

[I want the USA back]

It’s not about health. It’s to condition the idiot sheep to having their minds controlled by the government. Yes, it is the government. bammy and other politicians met with the heads of the “social media” and got them to agree to control thoughts, so the government is doing it by proxy, and not getting the blame.

The stage is set for total mind control. Now covid. Now “right wing extremism.” Soon all your thoughts will be under their control. You will not be allowed to think for yourself.

[cuz1961]

The stage is set for
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. total mind control.
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.Now covid. Now “right wing extremism.” Soon all your thoughts will be under their control. You will not be allowed to think for yourself.
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Rev 18:23 - And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth;

for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

Soceries =

φαρμακεία

pharmakeia

= Drug= Vaccine.

Ymmv.

Just sayin’.

[ProgressingAmerica]

Progressives won the war of words over a century ago.

Look at what they did to the word “monopoly”, and what they have done to other words like “freedom” and “equality”. Just with the aggressive use of a word, they make America from a republic into a democracy.

This was all done generations ago.

[windsorknot]

Newspeak is now a reality.