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Don't Give The "Language" High Ground To The Lefites!
11/13/04 | Tacis

Posted on 11/13/2004 10:53:14 AM PST by Tacis

As I watch, read and listen to the wailings of the wounding and failing democrats, I see a renewed effort on their part to box us in with language.

The lefties have always done a much better job of manipulating and using the language. Maybe that capability is compensation for being so bad with facts.

Their servants in the media have begun a campaign to belittle us and discount us. They are building an image where the "red states" are the equivalent of extremists, religious fanatics, anti-sexual deviant and a dozen "code words" that will allow them to characterize or stereotype more that half the nation with a snide, word/label/phrase that negatively describes or refers to all of us.

We must protest this where ever we see. We already see the word "Christian" linked with "conservative" or "extremist" or "Republican." The word "fundamentalist" will soon be applied to Christians in red states just as the concept of "assault weapon" is almost always associated with the fire arm used in a crime.

We must not allow them to puts these negative labels on us. Why not? Because the idiots in the blue states will quickly come to believe them. The folks in San Francisco already believe that folks in Texas don't wear shoes, seldom have all their teeth and can only read small words. As the media, Fattie Moore and the neocommunists continue to demean us, these misbeknighted elitist neocommunists more firmly believe the fuzzy generalizations as fact.

We must protest the silly and gratuitous use of the code words that are automatically employed to describe and stereotype large groups of Americans. Write, call, email every time you see one used. Examples? Check almost any AP story.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: liberal; media; neocommunist; progressive; scum
At the same time, let's go on the offensive. The neocommunists seem to have limited the use of "liberal" and seem to prefer "progressive." In our usage, lnk the left wing labels together and never use the word "democrat" without several perjorative modifiers. Words like "liberal," "progressive," "radical," "left-wing," tax & spend," or "elitist" can all be chained together EVERY time the word "democrat" is used. Of course, we can also couch modifers in string terms, such as "pro-abortion," "baby murdering," UN-loving," "anti-religious," "godless" and then "ultra" and then, "radical," liberal," "left-wing" and so on. LET'S NOT LET THEM "LANGUAGE" US INTO A CORNER!
1 posted on 11/13/2004 10:53:15 AM PST by Tacis
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To: Tacis

No one is going to fall for their malarky anymore. The democrat media has been outed and can no longer pretend to be impartial.


2 posted on 11/13/2004 10:56:40 AM PST by BenLurkin (Big government is still a big problem.)
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To: Tacis
Absolutely essential!

We conservatives - with a live and let live persona - tend to back off after winning a battle and leave the field to the defeated.

NOT the thing to do.

We must bring to light that the "so-called" democratic party has been high jacked, systematically and with malice aforethought, by the "Democratic Socialist Party" (and oxymoron, but designed to water down the word SOCIALIST).

There is still a segment of Old time democrats (like Zell) ... many don't realize their party has been overrun.

This is a good opportunity to get the word out. It can split off the real dems from the socialist wing - That would be a good thing for all, and would definitely put them in a minority for decades to come.

I would seem we have to battle these socialist here every 30 years or so...Beat em down and back they come.

But if we beat them down this time - while their agenda is bald-faced hanging out for all to see - and just maybe we wont have to worry about them again, as the rest of the countries who went socialist are waking up to the fact that: It doesn't work in reality.

3 posted on 11/13/2004 11:06:51 AM PST by maine-iac7 ( Pray without doubt..."Ask and you SHALL receive")
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To: BenLurkin
No one is going to fall for their malarky anymore. The democrat media has been outed and can no longer pretend to be impartial

Only if we don't let them regroup - which they are doing, with a vengeance.

We must not leave the field to them. We won a big battle on the 2nd.

We can't pick up our marbles and go home now, smiling that "we won!."

Now we have to win the war.

4 posted on 11/13/2004 11:10:22 AM PST by maine-iac7 ( Pray without doubt..."Ask and you SHALL receive")
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To: Tacis

I agree. The power of words is enormous. We must not allow the enemy to define us.


5 posted on 11/13/2004 11:19:55 AM PST by elbucko ( Feral Republican)
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To: Tacis

I like the term that was recently coined (here on FR?)--"secular fundamentalist".


6 posted on 11/13/2004 11:30:32 AM PST by randog (What the....?!)
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To: Tacis

You make a good point. i have been concerned about the Dems trying to overuse the word progressive as their new name. It a liberal either way but I would like to hear some Repubs start saying that over and over so it sticks.


7 posted on 11/13/2004 11:54:12 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (I got political capital and I intend to spend it!)
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To: Tacis

You are right the left has been more proficient in creating buzzword concepts...of course they do have MSM to spread their kant.

"homophobe" is a good example, it immediately sets one in a defensive rhetorical position if one accepts it (all of the lefts buzzwords are designed to steal the rhetorical high ground before an argument has been made).

As one who lives in San Francisco (and yes you are right about SF, they are absolutely ad hominum demeaning to anyone who does not agree with them - believe me I know!!)- I reject "homophobe", I have no phobia regarding these people, they do not frighten me. But the left wants to create the immediately unequal ground for argument where you are a person reacting out of fear not reason.

"No," I say, "Rather I have a negative tropism toward homosexuality, I tend to lean away from it's presence."
That is a matter of taste and judgement on my part, not fear.


8 posted on 11/13/2004 11:56:13 AM PST by fourthrider (fourthrider...Proud Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy)
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To: Tacis
LET'S NOT LET THEM "LANGUAGE" US INTO A CORNER!

we won't. linguistic distinctions are essential and must be honored.

"discrimination" is actually a desireable trait.
and "gay" is something most FReepers would want to be.

9 posted on 11/13/2004 12:00:28 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (if a man lives long enough, he gets to see the same thing over and over.)
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To: Tacis
Don't Give The "Language" High Ground To The Lefites!

Did you mean "L'effetes?"

10 posted on 11/13/2004 12:05:09 PM PST by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: maine-iac7

Now we have to win the war.
The Left is a hypocrite bunch who cynically manipulate. That is why they are vulnerable--why the term "liberal" was easy to demonize--because it was a word for a truly destructive ideology. The Left will try to demonize us the same way but it won't work--we are not a destructive ideology. The point is, they can't mock honest people, so we should leap to co-opt and accept every label they throw at us--with easy humor and confidence and NEVER NEVER become defensive.

We should all be wearing "Jesusland" T-shirts by now, with companion bumper stickers. Think up clever acronyms for their insults, and identify with them. Glorify being a "Walmart Republican" You get the idea.


11 posted on 11/13/2004 12:28:26 PM PST by hinckley buzzard (I, the Jury)
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To: fourthrider

Even "homosexual" is a win for them. The word should be "homophilia" and "homosexual" should be reserved for use based on actions, not preferences.

Someone might be a kleptomaniac, but not steal. Heck, if you want to make it parallel, how about "homomaniac"?


12 posted on 11/13/2004 12:42:47 PM PST by Gondring (They can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!)
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To: Tacis; All
"The lefties have always done a much better job of manipulating and using the language."

BULLCRAP!

They never have and never will have anything on the Right.

The belief that mindless Regressives are better than us in any fasion is only because you accept it.

13 posted on 11/13/2004 1:20:19 PM PST by JoJo Gunn (More than two lawyers in any Country constitutes a terrorist organization. ©)
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To: Tacis
The left is awesome at this. They define the terms, then define the debate, and leave us trying to defend ourselves. They do it over and over.

Using the same tactic on them ("flip-floper") was pretty successful during the election!
14 posted on 11/14/2004 4:14:38 AM PST by anyone_but_kerry
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To: Tacis

Language is meaningless without genuine intent behind it. One of the reasons our Prime Minister prefers President Bush is precisely because there is unity between the President's words and actions. The left has excessive verbiage, but no will to action - hence their penchant for talking things to death. They may talk and talk and talk and try to paint Republicans into a linguistic corner, but when all is said and done, President Bush wins by 3 million votes, Daschle is gone, and the Democrats are weakened. It seems the more they speak, the better off we are. ;)

Regards, Ivan


15 posted on 11/14/2004 4:21:50 AM PST by MadIvan (Gothic. Freaky. Conservative. - http://www.rightgoths.com/)
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To: Tacis
Couldn't agree more. Noticed that the Liberals are now calling illegal aliens "immigrants" thereby erasing the distinction between the criminal and the law abiding.

The big push now is to call themselves "progressive" since according to them - the "right-wing" (sorry) "extreme right-wing" has demonized the word.

Changing language gives them the power to define the debate and redefine reality. If you are against homosexual language (something I never heard of until about 5 years ago) you are a homophobe. Believe in strict construction like almost every great Jurist before Earl Warren you are a Right-wing extremist. (see Scalia and Thomas)
16 posted on 11/14/2004 5:19:19 AM PST by rcocean
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To: JoJo Gunn
"The belief that mindless Regressives are better than us in any fasion is only because you accept it."

Well; I say Amen to that! But I do believe that the reason that the left has been so successful in demonizing us for so many years, is because we( as a collective group of good, decent, moral, and honest people) were forever caught off guard by anyone trying to demonize us.
We simply didn't know how to react to the loony leftist, because we don't go around acting like them, and it never really occurred to us that we should. Our natural inclination, was to defend ourselves against their wild and well planned names, and or modifiers.
But "Thank G_D", People like Rush, Sean, etc... etc... were provided to us by "The Almighty" so as to show us the effective way to deal with their mindless dribble!
Now who's on the run?
By the way: You have given me an idea for a more nonpolitical correct( However very accurate) label for liberals. Instead of Progressive; How about the "Godless Regressives"?
17 posted on 11/14/2004 7:47:59 PM PST by Hillarys nightmare (I'm Proud to be living in "Jesus Land" ! Don't you wish everyone did?)
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