It is just the Marxist ploy to control the perceptions of the masses.
Wittgenstein knew, and later, Lenin and Mao used it to great success—that when you control the words/Language—you can literally control the emotions of the masses.
The Greek Masters knew the power of rhetoric and the “poets” to move emotions and they loathed the poets.....because they catered to irrational emotion....rather than to the intellect and reason and truth.
Leftists put the word “homosexual” in front of “marriage” for two decades and made that irrational vile, concept “normal” to the children-—they heard the irrational term over and over-—so now as adults they “think” it is natural. Repeat the Lie enough-—it becomes embedded—the truth.
Ideas are powerful-—and words/language are laden with connotations which the Leftists have to control, especially “for the children” (it is what Common Core does). It is what Political Correctness does (censorship)—and “hate crime” laws-—so they can actually censor our Words and Language and eventually flip Good and Evil and destroy Christian Ethics and all truth and virtue in our children. Without Virtue, Freedom can not exist.
Toxic cultures will contaminate the minds of children, like the vulgar Weimar Republic did to Germans. Think how the minds of Afghanis are deformed and warped in their “culture” in childhood with the boy harems and blatant hate for women. It is why the culture is so vile. Adults are emotional and ignorant. They can never use Reason and Logic and see true Reality. Their worldview erases Natural Law and dignity in human beings.
You make an excellent point about the use of semantics...
I did an exercise with my 23 year old son while watching Fox news and pointed out when they used the left terminology as they reported current events....
It was an eye opener for him....even Fox news is not immune from the left insidious manipulation of words...