Posted on 09/15/2021 8:35:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
Leftists have always used language to advance their agenda. The far-left radicals of the progressive movement have become masters of language manipulation, and generally speaking those on the conservative side tend to play defense. But he who controls the language controls the direction of the conversation, which is why the right is always stuck chasing after it.
When we started showing evidence against “global warming,” it was shifted to being called “climate change.” We had valid arguments against the notion of “my body, my choice,” but those arguments were made meaningless when vaccine tyranny erased them. Now, as “Critical Race Theory” is being exposed for its foundations in direct racism and principles of segregation, proponents are rebranding it as “anti-racism advocacy.”
Communist Party USA is now going after another phrase that has become an inconvenience to the radical left. “Cancel culture” has always had a negative connotation, but it persisted because leftists generally agreed with the notion of vindication and retribution against those who committed crimes of non-wokeness. Lately, there has been a shift in sentiment that has been voiced by celebrities even on the left. People like Bill Maher are speaking out, so the need to change the language has become apparent.
What’s the new term they’re pushing to replace “cancel culture”? According to a recent article, it should now be seen as “Liberation Culture.”
The article on CPUSA’s website is rife with conjecture and gaslighting. Here’s a taste:
The phrase “cancel culture” is what linguists call an “empty signifier.” It implies a lot but means nothing.
***Support The Liberty Daily and Mike Lindell -- use code TLD at MyPillow.com and get up to 66% off!*** People who use the term without irony do so to inject irrational fear into discussions of culture, politics, and ethical behavior. This tactic provides a right-wing ideological cover for maintaining racist oppression, imperialism and war, class exploitation, and heteronormative patriarchy.
People who fret anxiously about “cancel culture” fear that criticisms of oppressive systems, abusive language, and hate-filled violence are really targeting them personally. These anxieties are manipulated by millionaire- and billionaire-controlled right-wing media, blog sites, and conspiracy-based organizations that stimulate panic and hatred. Their goal is to stir up as much animosity and anger in a base of right-wing supporters to either build momentum at election time or, barring electoral success, mobilize violence and threats of violence like the Jan. 6th terrorist attack or other such mob uprisings to push a tax-cutting, anti-worker, anti-woman, racist, white supremacist agenda.
If you love the news, check out The Liberty Daily's homepage. “Cancel culture” is an empty signifier because it refers to nothing in reality. People who seek justice don’t want to cancel people. They do not desire to harm white people or cause all men the same pain and suffering many men have historically leveled against women. Vengeance against straight or cisgender people isn’t on anyone’s agenda. Countries targeted by U.S. imperialism don’t want war with the U.S., they want freedom to develop and determine their own futures without intervention.
The fear that the “social justice warriors” are out to get us is a hoax, and a little paranoid. It is irrational and reflects a disturbing fragility within dominant cultural values. Scholar Robin DiAngelo has observed and documented this purely emotional phenomenon in White Fragility. Indeed, palpable forms of this fragility could be perceived when tiki-torch-bearing neo-fascists marched infamously in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 brandishing Nazi salutes and chanting anti-Semitic and racist slogans that expressed a fear of being cancelled.
I won’t go through the demerits of the article as it would take more words to properly critique it than the article itself. What’s important here is that the notion that “cancel culture” needs to be rebranded as “liberation culture” has one purpose: Rejuvenating the practice by justifying its existence through virtue signaling. Again, the left has mastered language manipulation. “Liberation culture” is appealing to the collectivists on so many levels. Those who may have felt the sway of people condemning “cancel culture” can now reengage with it without guilt.
“Liberation culture” just sounds better.
Just when we think we’re getting the upper hand on denouncing one concept, the left rebrands it and starts the process up again. It’s all a charade, yet conservatives continue to let the left determine the rules of engagement through language manipulation.
“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” ― George Orwell, 1984
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” ― George Orwell, 1984
Gender refers to language.
Humans have a sex, male or female.
Do not use gender when you mean sex.
And there are only two.
proglib culture
Yeah, that’s about right.
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Yes, indeed. No doubt about it.
This author, however, knows a thing or two about it as well given some of his other articles that have been posted here.
well, vaccine officially no longer means vaccine but merely protection, which in itself is a lie...
First they use language to demonize you.
Then they round you up in concentration camps.
Then they shoot you.
This is a short summary of the history of the human race.
I know! I know!
“Cultural Revolution!”
It was only used to murder 80,000,000 Chinese citizens.
It has plenty of mileage left.
I’d rather honor confederate soldiers and topple the Woke off their feet.
Once again, communists demonstrate mental ability on the level of third graders.
Their existential strategy: just do the opposite.
Hot funk cool punk even if its old junk it’s still commie talk to me.
Billy Joel fan?...................
bkmk
How about CAPITULATION CULTURE or SUBMISSION CULTURE?
“Scholar Robin DiAngelo”
LOLOL!
Not really. I would like to hear other people sing his songs
There’s something about his voice that I don’t like.
That..and i’ve met a couple people who claimed to know him..one was a neighbor. Said he is a huge a-hole.
Words, language, linguistic speech, are what defines us as human beings, they’re what makes us separate and distinct from the rest of the animal world. Only human beings have the ability to communicate linguistically and through the written word. Words give us the ability to exchange concepts, paint images and pictures in each other minds, to invoke emotions, they make us feel and understand. Words are the most powerful force in the known universe, it is no wonder the rise of the left has coincided with masterful manipulation of language.
“Hot funk cool punk even if its old junk it’s still commie talk to me.”
LOL! Love it. :)
This tactic provides a right-wing ideological cover for maintaining racist oppression, imperialism and war, class exploitation, and heteronormative patriarchy.
Heck, I think Che and Fidel might get canceled on that point.
Liberation Culture? So Obama was attending a Marxist Communist church with Jeremiah Wright and his Black Liberation Theology.
Pretty much a total verification that he’s a card carrying Communist.
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