How the Left Redefines Normality

American Thinker.com ^ | May 8, 2021 | Mark Landsbaum

[Kaslin]

It is so obvious that even before Christ brought me to Himself, I realized abortion advocates had arrogantly redefined “baby” to justify committing murder. Babies in the womb became “a clump of cells.”

They obviously were dehumanizing the child to make his murder less onerous, more palatable. Indeed, once the child’s humanity was disestablished, it was a short step to defining abortion as something good, like extracting a decayed tooth or removing a wart.

To do this necessarily required changing the meaning of the word that refers to what mothers carry in their wombs. Language is how we communicate. Words matter.

“Baby” had to be redefined because more than half a century ago when this movement gained wide support, even the most barbarous among us still were repulsed by the idea of killing an actual living baby for convenience’s sake.

But if it’s not a “baby,” it must be something. The abortionists’ redefinition resulted in it becoming something far less worthy of protection, even something that it was good to destroy.

A clump of cells was hardly indistinguishable from an inanimate object, and certainly light-years away from a child you lovingly, protectively cuddle. In this way the moral revulsion to baby killing was overcome for anyone willing to use the new dictionary definition of life in the womb.

“Our current culture wars are battles over that dictionary. Understand that, and everything else follows,” Doug Wilson wrote recently. “They want to define boy and girl, true enough.

“But they also want to define hate, bigotry, holiness, guilt, identity, victim, and more. And by ‘more,’ I mean every word in the dictionary, including and and the.”

If a baby can be redefined out of existence, it explains how easily these word sorcerers can make a man become a woman,

[gasport]

A portion of that “clump of cells” (the trunco-conal septum) has rhythmic contractions at 7-8 weeks gestation. It is destined to become a human heart.

This is embryology. This is science, not Woke fantasy.

[bantam]

“The pen is mightier than the sword” has never been more true than today!!!!

[FreedomVsControl]

It’s pretty clear to me they want to destroy civilization. They don’t even care if they make things worse, they just hate the world as it is and want to tear it all down.

Why do they want to do this? We could go on for years trying to diagnose all their mental illnesses, but in the end it’s going to be pointless for the purposes of saving our civilization.

All we really need to realize is this - some people are creators, others are destroyers. Agree or disagree with them, but yesterday’s liberals wanted to create a better society. Today’s liberals want to destroy it.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

They obviously were dehumanizing the child to make his murder less onerous, more palatable.
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They obviously were dehumanizing the child to make HER murder less onerous, more palatable.

Always more effective to use the pronoun HER in certain contexts. For example: “When Satan convened the Council in 1962, it was evident that SHE and her minions had finally managed to breach the walls of the Vatican.”