Greenfield: Liberal Newspeak

Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog ^ | Tuesday, December 10, 2013 | Daniel Greenfield

[Louis Foxwell]

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[Mr. K]

Geez this guy is good....

[ComputerGuy]

You can't think in Liberal Newspeak. You can only feel good or bad, angry or self-satisfied. There is no room for thoughts, only feelings. You can feel guilty in Liberal Newspeak. You can be outraged, self-righteous or concerned. But you can't weigh one idea against another because it isn't a language of ideas. It's a vocabulary of emotional cues that could just as easily be taught to a smart animal.

One of several gems in this fine piece.

[Louis Foxwell]

This may be the most important discussion of liberal thought. Liberals do not think. They emote. It is not possible to have a rational conversation with a liberal because liberals are not guided by rational discourse. They are a hive, driven by emotional cues. Their language elicits emotion, not thought. Even their signature accomplishments are not thought provoking. They are emotion cues.
Liberals are comtemptuous of thought. They equate thinking with hating. If you have to think about it you are not a member of the hive.
A critical understanding of the mentality of liberals differentiates between honey bee hive and the fire ant colony. The bee hive has a single queen. The ant colony is a many headed hydra, with countless queens each with their own soldiers, gatherers and drones.
Honey bees are industrious and private. Fire ants are invasive and dangerous. Liberalism is most comparable to a vast invasion of biting, poisonous, agressive fire ants. Their colony may infest acres of turf. Exterminating one mound does not eradicate the colony.
Thank you Daniel. Keeping poking those fire ants.

[jsanders2001]

As usual masterful and to the point seeing through the lies, deception, and general BS of the liberal mind. I especially enjoyed the Stephen King style description of liberal “newspeak” here:

“Liberal Newspeak is the chirpy announcer in a drug commercial soothingly telling you about all the fatal side effects while on screen couples have romantic picnics and go whitewater rafting”

By articulating and clarifying the tactics of the enemy so well it makes us better understand hiw to counter and go on the offensive. Just make you don’t shake hands with strangers or drive any late model vehicles, Daniel...: )

[gattaca]

Every time I hear my progressive co-workers spewing the rant of the day, I think of Baghdad Bob. This articles explains why.

[jsanders2001]

Isn’t he though? He writes like the founding fathers of old. The critical thinking in his essays Is excellent.

[Excellence]

Everything he says about liberal-speak can be found in just about every education paper, which is why edducation is so screwed up.

[freepersup]

Newspeak j-a-y-c-a-r-n-e-y

[jsanders2001]

Great comment. Like icing on the cake.

[Old Sarge]

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[left that other site]

Liberal Newspeak is a language of preemption. It preempts questions and ideas. Its terminology is so vague that specific questions require a convoluted assemblage of words. The more specific the question, the more convoluted the sentence, until asking even a simple question is like trying to make a wish with a genie. And then the sheer amount of words makes the meaning impermeable.

This is a fine art that is relentlessly taught in most of the schools in America. There is no debate, only repetitive "talking Points". When a sensible and righteous argument is presented by our side, it is immediately pre-empted, interrupted, and overridden in a technique known as "Jamming". Liberals who call conservative talk radio are TRAINED in this technique. It is pathetic and tragic listening to decent, polite, conservative people attempting an old-fashioned conversation with liberals who have been "trained" in this fashion.

The recent "Thanksgiving Dinner" Campaign for obamascare is an example of the left "tipping its hand" on their MO.

[traderrob6]

This article’s a keeper.

[Old Sarge]

I'd like to join Commander Riker in applauding your most excellent post:

[IronJack]

And it goes beyond mere language. If, as the author asserts, the purpose of Newspeak is to coat bitter realities in palatable utterances, that is little more than a metaphor for the whole socialist/communist/progressive agenda. It is a dehumanizing, brutal idelology whose record shows its utter moral paucity. Yet it stays alive by selling itself in comforting (albeit meaningless) images and vaguely noble abstractions that preclude concrete discussion.

To the Left, it’s always about the package, never the contents. And the poster boy for that reality is Barack Obama.

[N. Theknow]

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[MrB]

The founder of the leftist ideology made as his first act of defiance

an attack on the meaning of words.

“Did God really say...”

[Louis Foxwell]

Happy to have you aboard the ship to God, Truth and The American Way.

[Louis Foxwell]

Yes! and yes, He did say that.

[Oratam]

Please add me as well.