Posted on 11/28/2012 11:35:11 AM PST by bayouranger
First the Associated Press announced that it would continue using “Illegal Alien” instead of “Undocumented American”, “Accidental Border Crosser” or “Beautiful Dreamer” on the grounds that it was well… technically accurate.
Now the AP is throwing out Homophobia and Islamophobia on the grounds that they are inaccurate and conflate prejudice with mental illness. And that has led to outrage hysteria from the usual organs of the left who like sticking to their politicized words once they’ve made enough people aware of them.
“Ethnic cleansing is a euphemism for pretty violent activities, a phobia is a psychiatric or medical term for a severe mental disorder. Those terms have been used quite a bit in the past, and we don’t feel that’s quite accurate,” AP Deputy Standards Editor Dave Minthorn said.
Again, that is accurate, despite the progressive response that adding phobia as a suffix allows it to mean a completely different thing.
The Associated Press is not taking a conservative position here, but we have reached such a point of cultural decay that fact-based positions that derive their grounds from reason and proof are already innately conservative. Or as George Orwell put it, “We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
The left’s counterattack on behalf of homophobia is already irrational, even from the standpoint of their own interests, because it communicates mental problems when the goal is to communicate bigotry.
Slate argues that homophobia is just like arachnophobia. The argument is wrong on a number of levels. The most simple level where it’s wrong is that the subject under discussion is not even fear. It’s dislike. The Guardian and several other media outlets have churned out pieces arguing that dislike of homosexuality is primarily motivated by fear. But that’s an opinion and the very argument testifies to a news media that is hardly able to distinguish fact-based reporting from opinion-mongering.
Finally there is something Orwellian about describing political or religious views in terms usually employed for mental illness. It skips past discussing what people believe or do to claiming intimate knowledge of their motives and passing judgement on their sanity. It’s reasonable for the AP to opt out of such heavily politicized and inaccurate language that claims to report on the state of mental health, rather than the state of events.
Removalphobia.
” arguing that dislike of homosexuality is primarily motivated by fear. “
I call people who frame an argument with no evidence “a33holes.”
If “homophobia” is the term for bigotry aimed at homosexuals, why isn’t “racephobia” used for redneck crackers like me?
“The left’s counterattack on behalf of homophobia is already irrational, even from the standpoint of their own interests, because it communicates mental problems when the goal is to communicate bigotry.”
I disagree. The left prefers to label their opponents as mentally ill so when they control the country they can put their opponents in mental hospitals. Just the same as the Soviets did when they ruled Russia and half of the world.
Of course homos have heterophobia and Muzzies have Jewish/Christianphobia.
I'm not so sure. To me - phobia means fear of something. And to that end; I've always been homophobic. Not that I'm afraid of any fag making a pass at me, but I fear their plans, goals and objectives which are destroying our culture and our country.
At DU, a poster suggested “black Friday” may be a racist term. Traditional definitions are so white European colonial oppressionist.
| Joy Behar’s Moral Quandary: 'Isn't it a Little Racist to Call it Black Friday?' | ||
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11/26/2012 7:32:56 PM PST · by chessplayer · 93 replies NewsBusters ^ There's nothing like tuning into an episode of "The View" for a little exploration of social sensitivities in the modern American culture. In keeping with that tradition, on Black Friday, a term used to describe the Friday following Thanksgiving, which is the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season, the use of the word "black" to mark this occasion was a topic of discussion on "The View" for its potential "racist" implications. |
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Insane.
How the Term “Islamophobia” Got Shoved Down Your Throat
The neologism “Islamophobia” did not simply emerge ex nihilo. It was invented, deliberately, by a Muslim Brotherhood front organization, the International Institute for Islamic Thought, which is based in Northern Virginia. If that name dimly rings a bell, it should: I’ve mentioned it before, and it’s particularly important because it was co-founded by Anwar Ibrahim–the hero of Moderate Islam who is now trotting around the globe comparing his plight to that of Aung San Suu Kyi.
Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, a former member of the IIIT who has renounced the group in disgust, was an eyewitness to the creation of the word. “This loathsome term,” he writes, is nothing more than a thought-terminating cliche conceived in the bowels of Muslim think tanks for the purpose of beating down critics.
In another article concerning the many moderate Muslims whose voices have been drowned out by Saudi-financed Muslim Brotherhood front groups, Muhammad describes the strategy behind the word’s invention:
In an effort to silence critics of political Islam, advocates needed to come up with terminology that would enable them to portray themselves as victims. Muhammad said he was present when his then-allies, meeting at the offices of the International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT) in Northern Virginia years ago, coined the term “Islamophobia.”
Muhammad said the Islamists decided to emulate the homosexual activists who used the term “homophobia” to silence critics. He said the group meeting at IIIT saw “Islamophobia” as a way to “beat up their critics.”
Really imagine that scene: a bunch of Islamists admiring how astutely the queers–people who in their ideal world would be served with the lash or hanged–had portrayed their critics as mentally disturbed. Brilliant. Let’s take a leaf from them and then kill them. The association of anti-Islamism–the noblest form of liberal anti-totalitarianism–with gay-bashing rednecks in the grip of a psychosexual panic was not just one of those linguistic accidents of history, in other words. These guys were sitting there in Virginia and really thinking about the best way to exploit the weaknesses of the Western psyche. They came up with this word–and admit it, it’s clever; I challenge you to find a better one if you want to yank the West’s chain–and they marketed it with petrodollars, and now it truly does drive public discourse and policy the world over.
The fact that the IIIT was co-founded by Anwar Ibrahim, who is now on trial for sodomy–something of a homophobic charge, that—would be almost hilarious in its just-deserts irony if Anwar hadn’t succeeded in portraying himself as the moderate darling of Muslim moderation whose plight should now trouble the liberal conscience of the West, no matter his own role in exploiting it.
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So Anwar Ibrahim– our moderate man in moderate Malaysia–is the moderate man behind this Orwellian effort to render the West incapable of objecting even verbally to political Islam. The gift of “Islamophobia” is just the beginning of the story.
Read it all.
Judeophobia
Christophobia
I'm not so sure. To me - phobia means fear of something. And to that end; I've always been homophobic. Not that I'm afraid of any fag making a pass at me, but I fear their plans, goals and objectives which are destroying our culture and our country.
The left's use of the term, "phobia" is meant to diminish the person who speaks out against anything the left embraces. In their (pea) minds, when someone speaks out against, for instance, Islam or homosexual conduct, they do so because that person "FEARS" that particular group or behavior to the degree that the fear becomes all consuming. Thus, it's not simply a fear of something, such as a person who has a fear of spiders. The level of fear, in the (pea) mind of the liberal, is a significant social detriment to the person experiencing the fear. This warped use of phobia by the left is meant to suggest that the person with such "FEAR" does indeed have a mental illness, at least in the liberal mind.
I fear our government is taking this nation in a direction which will result in the demise of our Constitution. If I had some type of phobia, my fear would result in a form of paralysis. In actuality, the fear that liberals attempt to shackle Conservatives with does not result in paralysis, but action. This is why they attempt to diminish and marginalize all of us.
The whacked-out self-haters on the left have Stockholm Syndrome. That’s why they so readily side with those who want them dead. It’s sick, really.
black friday was derived from the accounting of “being in the black” or making a profit.
IOW big profit friday.
so earning money on a particular friday is racist? No wonder they are DUmies.
I think he made a typo. Wasn't it supposed to be
"orangs of the left"?
now we have conservaphobia
Maybe we should have a stimulus bill that would give ALL the whacked out self haters a ONE WAY AIRFARE to the islamic country of their choice and they Forfiet their citizenship.
Stealth Jihad going on in America...
It should be remembered that, in the last decades of the Soviet Union, persons objecting to the state's oppression of human freedoms and democracy were often diagnosed as mentally ill and sent to asylums for "treatment." This action was considered perfectly logical in Communist theory as only the insane would object to the perfected communist state. Under the same reasoning, conscientious objection to military service was also disallowed as the perfected state must be defended.
Needless to say, the Left's use of mental illness designation for any position or person they find troublesome is just an ad hominim attack in the same vicious mindset that the Communists used (and, IIRC, are still using to a limited extent in China). The Left simply lacks the coercive power to implement their agenda. (Although it seems they tried recently went a veteran in southeastern Virginia was apprehended and sent (for a brief period) to a mental treatment facility because of some very mildly objectionable (to Obama supporters) Facebook postings (song lyrics). Fortunately, the supervising magistrate eventually saw things differently and ordered his release after a few days.)
Dallas county official: “Black hole” is racist! (Michelle Malkin)
Their self parody is so complete, they are immune from ridicule and standard issue satire.
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