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Lib-Speak IV – A Left-Icon For The Age Of Obama
grasstopsusa.com ^ | 08/03/2011 | Don Feder

Posted on 08/03/2011 7:39:36 PM PDT by massmike

This is the fourth installment in a series on liberal language-manipulation – the ways in which the left’s terminology comes loaded with hidden assumptions. If you even tacitly accept these catch phrases, you’ve lost the debate before it starts.

For instance, the expression “same-sex marriage” is based on the preposterous notion that “marriage” (as shaped by biology and theology) is even remotely possible between two people of the same gender. Accept the assumption, and you are reduced to fighting on the fringes. (Example: Is it good for children?)

Since the left controls most of society’s idea-generators – the mass media, academia, public education, book publishing – it has all of the tools it needs to condition the public consciousness to assimilate certain ideas.

It’s hoped this series will help to break the spell cast by liberal necromancers.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: donfeder; libspeak

1 posted on 08/03/2011 7:39:39 PM PDT by massmike
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To: massmike

He hit the nail on the head!


2 posted on 08/03/2011 9:32:50 PM PDT by defconw
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