Posted on 03/15/2021 11:58:42 AM PDT by karpov
The political left has proven itself to be amazingly incompetent when it comes to governing. Examples abound of nations, states, and cities—even those with tremendous wealth, resources, and other advantages—reduced to nightmare zones of poverty, violence, and corruption. Think of Venezuela, Cuba, California, Detroit, and Baltimore.
Yet, there is one area in which the left excels to a remarkable degree: the attainment of power and advancement of its political aims.
Every year, every month, and every day, somewhere in the nation the left is implementing or proposing some action that will further its agenda. Consider the breakneck speed at which the Biden administration is dismantling its predecessor’s reforms and advancing the “woke” agenda. Instead of concerning itself with how to govern well, the left’s intellectual energies are spent on crafting tactics to exploit the weak spots in our electoral processes, our laws, and our policies. It has a vast array of weapons of its disposal, from Saul Alinsky’s organizing tactics to bureaucratic state encroachments on democracy to the anarchic violence of Antifa and Black Lives Matter, and so forth.
One of the left’s most successful tactics is the manipulation of language. The meaning of words is gradually but deliberately changed to alter perceptions and to enable large policy and cultural changes to occur without much notice.
Academia is especially vulnerable to such linguistic subterfuge, and in the past year, many universities have greatly advanced the radical agenda through “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) policies. To most people who still understand those three words according to their traditional meanings, such policies sound benign or enlightening; many would be open to basing guidelines on them.
However, in the lexicon of today’s left-leaning academic bureaucracies, those words—taken individually or together—have new, specific meanings with a sinister bent.
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“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.”
― George Orwell, 1984
At least they should be truthful and make it Diversity, Inclusiveness and Equity, as in DIE.
It’s not just universities adopting the Diversity agenda and language. That’s old news. The greater development is the attempt at co-opting Corporate America into this movement which, to my eye, appears thoroughly successful.
Yup. My company is one of them....all because of the coordinated Floyd riots.
At my old job four years ago, I read an actual published policy about transgender bathroom use.
I was baffled that I got shit for working some OT, and somebody’s actual job was to write that crap.
Terence McKenna had some great rants on this topic:
“The world is made out of language.”
He also noted that it seems to be very evil people who make use of this knowledge.
Just received today McWhorter’s “The Language Hoax” — timely!
Yes, after careful destruction of the English language, which The Party estimated would occur by 2150, thought crimes would be impossible.
I’m near the end of the book, and Obrien explained to Winston how the Nazis and Soviets were on the right path, but screwed up. Unlike them, Ingsoc didn’t exist to make anyone’s life better . . . except for Inner Party members.
Rhetorical question, so whose life does DC make better? Not the prols.
“Together they express an ideological agenda intended to produce equalized outcomes among all demographic groups, to include preferred people and deny those out of favor with the political elite, and to take power from one group and give it to others.”
They represent an acknowledgment that certain ethnic groups and females will never succeed on their own merits. Not my policies, but official gubmint/company policies, are saying this.
Corruption benefits only the corrupted..................
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