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"War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength"
1 posted on 06/17/2016 8:00:42 AM PDT by C19fan
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“Words are connected to a long and often forgotten history of oppression and people,” one poster said.

Mindless cant has a sort of lilt to it, a taste, even a vintage. I remember giggling when certain over-earnest collegians were solemnly invoking "running-dog imperialist oppressors of the working class" not all that long ago.

Attempts to control thought by controlling language are, in my opinion, thoroughly overrated, because control of the language is never as complete as the controllers congratulate themselves. That is an ideological fantasy, and as evidence I cite the remarkable evidence of samizdat in the late, unlamented Soviet Union. That sort of language control always devolves into sloganeering - see above - and that always fails eventually, more often quickly, from the pure folly of avoiding reality. "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality," as Ayn Rand put it.

34 posted on 06/17/2016 9:18:52 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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They should look in the mirror.


35 posted on 06/17/2016 9:28:13 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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Islam triggers me, just the word islam does the trick


37 posted on 06/17/2016 11:08:09 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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These children have been mind raped by their liberal masters. This should be considered a criminal act. At the very least they should sue the university for educational malpractice.


38 posted on 06/17/2016 9:09:17 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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