Pillaging the Dictionary

WorldNetDaily ^ | 8/19/11 | Marylou Barry

[MarylousAmerica]

Life goes on, and so does the pillaging of the dictionary by the enemies of free speech. If you can't shut people up, the logic seems to go, the next best thing is not to let what they say signify anything. "Tolerance" has come to mean forced acceptance, "rights" to mean special privileges for those with highly paid lobbyists, and "freedom" to mean the freedom to oppress others. The Constitution upon which our government is based has come to mean just about nothing at all.

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[Razz Barry]

BTTT

[rmh47]

Hey, better 27 years late than never.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Orwell. Newspeak.

Journalists define all positive labels to mean, "agreeing with us, or in our interests."

I have my own Newspeak-English dictionary:

objective :

reliably promoting the interests of Big Journalism. (usage: always applied to journalists who are members in good standing; never applied to anyone but a journalist)

liberal :

see "objective," except that the usage is reversed: (usage: never applied to any working journalist)

progressive :

see "liberal" (usage: same as for "liberal").

moderate:

see "liberal." (usage: same as for "liberal").

centrist :

see "liberal" (usage: same as for "liberal").

conservative :

rejecting the idea that journalism is a higher calling than providing food, shelter, clothing, fuel, and security; adhering to the dictum of Theodore Roosevelt that: "It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena (usage: applies to people who - unlike those labeled liberal/progressive/moderate/centrist, cannot become "objective" by getting a job as a journalist, and probably cannot even get a job as a journalist.)(antonym:"objective")

right-wing :

see, "conservative."

public :

government

private :

not under direct supervision by "liberals."

[originalbuckeye]

Marriage: the union of a man and a woman; the union of two people of the same sex.

I was really bummed when they added the ‘second definition’ recently.