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Would-Be Tyrants Capture Language to Control Thought
The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) ^ | Friday, August 11, 2017 | Richard M. Ebeling

Posted on 08/11/2017 12:30:44 PM PDT by TBP

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The tyrants of today are the "progressives" (of whom there are some in both parties) who seek to prevent the expression of any view contrary to their own. And the entire time, they claim not only that they are committed to free speech, diversity, compassion, and tolerance --but that they er THE ONLY ONES.

And now they're imposing this on the youth through the schools and the culture.

Yet the similarities between today's progressives and the brutal tyrants of old are inescapable.

As Bill Buckley said, "'Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other points of view."

1 posted on 08/11/2017 12:30:44 PM PDT by TBP
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They have complete control, in the universities. It’s there that they deploy their entire strategy. They excel at forcing students to adopt language that conforms to the party line.

It’s happening right now, with those pronouns for dickchoppers:

https://www.wou.edu/wp/safezone/terminology/pronouns/

You pay big bucks to send kids to college, and this is what they get.


2 posted on 08/11/2017 12:43:33 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Insanity, even when disguised by a nice-sounding name, is still insanity.)
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Sic semper tyrannus


3 posted on 08/11/2017 12:56:06 PM PDT by Midnitethecat
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To: TBP

Great article. Thanks for posting. Sad, though.

“...merely by being labeled as such stands as accusation, condemnation and implied deserved punishment due the “just wrath” of — the National Socialist German people, the Soviet Socialist toiling masses, the “unprivileged” race victims of “white privilege.”


4 posted on 08/11/2017 1:03:45 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: TBP

The truth will not be tolerated.

War is peace

Ignorance is strength

Freedom is slavery


5 posted on 08/11/2017 1:05:51 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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Maybe it’s time to turn this on them.


6 posted on 08/11/2017 1:06:33 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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It’s hard when they control the MSM, the entertainment industry, and the education system which all teach the new generations how to talk and what to say. :\


7 posted on 08/11/2017 1:13:31 PM PDT by ransomnote
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As Single Moms don’t need the biodad to parent and raise the children, the college student doesn’t need their parent(s) help to attend university. In both instances, the State has usurped the traditional roles.

Only when women wake up to the harsh economic and social penalties that come from trying to single-handedly rear children and students similarly awaken to the crushing burden of debt assumed for a worthless indoctrination called a *degree*, will anything change.

Until that happens, the only course I can see is for intact traditional families to leave the cities, ensure they are capable of home schooling, prepare their children to undertake technical infrastructure careers (plumbing/electrical/building/HVAC/mechanic)while investing in a future that entails owning their own business. At the same time, a grounding in self-sufficiency and real sustainability would go along ways.

Everything is so contaminated, I see no way to rescue our past society if that means relying on the present-day distortions imposed upon all our institutions. I’m fairly convinced the present generation is mostly hopeless and if not, so mired in the larger version of the Swamp as to be forced to spend all their energy and resources just keeping their heads above water.

Intact traditional families with children under ten might have a shot at reclaiming America.


8 posted on 08/11/2017 1:28:55 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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PC mind control is present in nearly every show and movie produced by Hollywood. You can’t avoid it and live in this world. It is everywhere.


9 posted on 08/11/2017 1:29:44 PM PDT by Luke21
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There’s a psychologist who says alot of TV and movie programming is designed to traumatize and therefore make compliant citizenry receptive to “instruction”.


10 posted on 08/11/2017 1:39:24 PM PDT by ransomnote
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Every day I see “conservative” writers using THEY where the correct word is HE or SHE.

Even when the antecedent is SON or DAUGHTER!


11 posted on 08/11/2017 2:28:31 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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“Passed away,” originated, I presume, with undertakers. Its use with respect to historical figures or total strangers (Abraham Lincoln passed away in Washington, D.C., in 1865.) or pets is prissy and irritating. (Also annoying: “Former President” Abraham Lincoln...

Upper Class: He died.
Middle Class: He passed away.
Lower Class: He went home to Jesus.


12 posted on 08/11/2017 2:37:01 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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As with most issues, conservatives allow communists to declare the rules and define the terms of any debate. Then we lose by design.

Example: “Homosexual”: There is no such thing, since sex is inherently about reproduction. I refuse to concede the argument at the outset by using that ersatz term; it is properly designated homoeroticism.


13 posted on 08/11/2017 2:37:57 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: Arthur McGowan

Yes!


14 posted on 08/11/2017 2:39:57 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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“The sole purpose of the [Nazi use and form of language] is to strip everyone of THEIR individuality, to paralyze THEM as personalities, to make THEM into unthinking and docile cattle in a herd driven and hounded in a particular direction, to turn them (Here, the antecedent is “cattle.”) into atoms in a huge rolling block of stone . . . Where [Nazi language] addresses the individual . . . where it educates, it teaches means of breeding fanaticism and techniques of mass suggestion.”

This passage (probably translated) is an example of the totalitarianism of our own time. Lesbonics.


15 posted on 08/11/2017 2:43:53 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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As Single Moms don’t need the biodad to parent and raise the children, the college student doesn’t need THEIR parent(s) help to attend university.

_______________________

HIS


16 posted on 08/11/2017 2:53:05 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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NewSpeak?

I read about that in a book somewhere...

17 posted on 08/11/2017 3:28:16 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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Bookmark


18 posted on 08/11/2017 3:52:01 PM PDT by aquila48
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ok. Can you give me the reason why? Plural/singular?


19 posted on 08/11/2017 5:24:02 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: ransomnote; TBP
Maybe it’s time to turn this on them. - TBP
It’s hard when they control the MSM, the entertainment industry, and the education system which all teach the new generations how to talk and what to say. :\
This has been going on a long time:
If you read The Road to Serfdom (Reader’s Digest Condensed Version here), you will see that FA Hayek used the term “liberal” to denote people who today would be called “conservatives” in America. That is because Hayek, an Austrian, learned English in America before the meaning of “liberal” was essentially inverted, according to Safire's New Political Dictionary, in the 1920s. And the meaning of “liberal” was not changed in Britain, where Hayek wrote Serfdom during WWII.
That takes you back nearly a century, but the technique was old even then:
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)


20 posted on 08/11/2017 5:34:42 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (A press can be 'associated,' or a press can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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