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The Politicization of the English Language
Townhall.com ^ | April 7, 2016 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 04/07/2016 5:20:29 AM PDT by Kaslin

Last week, French President Francois Hollande met President Obama in Washington to discuss joint strategies for stopping the sort of radical Islamic terrorists who have killed dozens of innocents in Brussels, Paris and San Bernardino in recent months. Hollande at one point explicitly referred to the violence as "Islamist terrorism."

The White House initially deleted that phrase from the audio translation of the official video of the Hollande-Obama meeting, only to restore it when questioned. Did the Obama administration assume that if the public could not hear the translation of the French president saying "Islamist terrorism," then perhaps Hollande did not really say it -- and therefore perhaps Islamist terrorism does not really exist?

The Obama administration must be aware that in the 1930s, the Soviet Union wiped clean all photos, recordings and films of Leon Trotsky on orders from Josef Stalin. Trotsky was deemed politically incorrect, and therefore his thoughts and photos simply vanished.

The Library of Congress, under pressure from Dartmouth College students, recently banned not just the term "illegal alien" in subject headings for literature about immigration, but "alien" as well. Will changing the vocabulary mean that from now on, foreign nationals who choose to enter and reside in the United States without being naturalized will not be in violation of the law and will no longer be considered citizens of their homeland?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: english; georgeorwell; orwellian; politicalcorrectness; resident0bama; vdh; victordavishanson

1 posted on 04/07/2016 5:20:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
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2 posted on 04/07/2016 5:22:23 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

Our ‘President’ and that whole tribe of creeps around him are half-wits.


3 posted on 04/07/2016 5:25:58 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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To: Kaslin

4 posted on 04/07/2016 5:27:41 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: SMARTY

You are correct, but that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is not my president, nor will he ever be.


5 posted on 04/07/2016 5:29:59 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Travis McGee

bump


6 posted on 04/07/2016 5:30:37 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

This was done under orders by the top guy who will do everything in his power to protect his true love. (and that’s not the USA).

I have a lot of respect for Hollande. He is a socialist to the core, but he loves his country, unlike 0bammy. He cares more about France than about a bunch of towelheads.


7 posted on 04/07/2016 5:31:48 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Kaslin

The Politicization of the English Language:

‘undocumented’ immigrant
‘African’ American
‘progressive’
‘gay’
‘transgender’

A few other examples of how language has been politicized...
Say what you mean, mean what you say!


8 posted on 04/07/2016 5:41:46 AM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Kaslin

I always wonder how long it will take for Americans to live down the shame and embarrassment of what two “O” administrations have been.

His stupidity and incompetency is a national joke! No ... a GLOBAL joke!


9 posted on 04/07/2016 5:44:28 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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To: heterosupremacist

I remember when “gay” used to mean happy and cheerful. African American is ridiculous since Africa is a continent, not a country and the continent of America is North America


10 posted on 04/07/2016 5:47:00 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

It is The Left that creates the vast majority of NewSpeak, but I walk and talk with Liberals/Democrats/Progressives who simply do not seem to know that they belong to a totally corrupt grouping.


11 posted on 04/07/2016 5:59:45 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: Kaslin

Like children who cover their eyes and think you can’t see them, these idiots think if they ban a term, it no longer exists.

The administration is a textbook example of “arrested development”.


12 posted on 04/07/2016 6:05:27 AM PDT by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: FrankR

There is one simple thing that every thinking person can do every day—refuse to use the language of the left. When the left owns the language, they own the debate, and when we allow ourselves to be bullied into using their words, we have already lost.


13 posted on 04/07/2016 6:54:31 AM PDT by The Continental Op
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To: Kaslin
The Obama administration probably would not describe rogue police officers charged with crimes as “justice-involved police.” If cities with conservative mayors declined to enforce the Endangered Species Act or federal firearms statutes, they probably would not be known as “sanctuary cities,” but rather as “nullification cities.”

Orwell also wrote about a futuristic dystopia ruled by a Big Brother government that created politicized euphemisms to reinvent reality. He placed his novel in the year 1984, warning Westerners about what was in their future.


14 posted on 04/07/2016 7:12:47 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Kaslin

Marxists and the post-Alinsky Left politicize EVERYTHING.

And, I do mean ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!!!


15 posted on 04/07/2016 9:40:15 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin

Some TV newsperson described natives of the Congo as African-Americans.


16 posted on 04/07/2016 9:59:29 AM PDT by Boojum
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