In the novel “1984”, one observation was that, by eliminating words with which to describe a concept, you eliminate the ability to THINK the concept.
The Left has been very busy with the definition of certain words, like “racism”. Racism, for example, can only describe white antipathy against blacks. In the Left’s vocabulary, there is no word which can describe “hatred by a black person towards whites, with a desire they come to harm”. You can use a word like “prejudice”, for example, but it does not cover the emotional depth.
They appropriate words and actions to control.
In the novel “1984”, one observation was that, by eliminating words with which to describe a concept, you eliminate the ability to THINK the concept.
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I used to believe this but I’ve done nearly a 180 on it. Not only do I believe that it’s very possible to conceptualize without specific words, I feel that giving a word to a concept crystallizes it in a way that often limits the concept, particularly to the way that the word gets used most repeatedly. The concept is no longer pure, but it is easier to remember, and much much easier to communicate.
Words are shortcuts to communication. If we had to use new words in every sentence while we were having a conversation, we would have to stop and expend many many sentences clarifying the meaning of the new word, and the conversation would take forever to proceed. If we were able to communicate telepathically we learn to do with without words and tranceive the images and feelings of concepts, not only would conversations be much faster, but there would be a great deal more clarity.
So when you eliminate a word, you’re not eliminating the ability to THINK about it, but you are very very much limiting the ability to get others to THINK about it.
"Systemic racism" now means Capitalism, and racism is any move to resist full scale socialism.
That is how it was a while ago. Now racist being non socialist and white.