Because honesty and decency and loyalty and all those other dead-white-European-male virtues mean something to us, we take accusations of "hatefulness," and indeed all charges of poor conduct, vastly more seriously than they do. (When our pols misbehave, we dropkick them. The demosocialists reelect theirs.)
To the left, words aren't rooted in meaning. They're situational tools, waiting to be co-opted or turned inside-out or plucked from thin air to suit the purpose of the moment. And, to be perfectly blunt about it, overwhelmingly unencumbered by conscience (or jobs or families or useful lives) as they are, the Soros gangs use these tools better than we do, especially when it comes to implementing the axiom that he who defines the debate wins.
So our job is to keep the Kos-DU-PuffHo-ANSWER crew from setting the rules. Refute their claims, of course; but also reject their terminology -- loudly and at every opportunity. They don't get to frame the discussion!
And, for a little know-thy-enemy research, Google "George Lakoff" and "framing" -- and be amused at how he accuses conservatives of using a linguistic technique that the other guys, led by himself, literally wrote the book on.
GREAT post. I was reminded of “their” President asking the meaning of “is”.
“So our job is to keep the Kos-DU-PuffHo-ANSWER crew from setting the rules. Refute their claims, of course; but also reject their terminology — loudly and at every opportunity. They don’t get to frame the discussion!”
I was thinking about the situation this morning, and I thought I sure hope whoever the next Republican Nominee is, I hope he puts the Democrat Nominee on the spot and asks her, “Why do you rename yourselves when you haven’t changed and why does the media let you get away with it, why all the attempt to manipulate the way the American public sees you when the fact is you haven’t changed a BIT?”
You know what my personal opinion is, the reason they are able to so easily change the name of who they are is because they HAVE NEVER been honest about who they are and what they WANT!