Right to work is not trying to fool anybody. If you like being denied a job you’re otherwise able to do without having to pay money into an organization whose function is funding leftist politics, that’s your right, too. Though it perplexes me why you think that should be forced onto others.
“Though it perplexes me why you think that should be forced onto others.”
I’m not forcing anything on anybody. You think the use of words is not a part of our society and how that society reacts to word stimulus by saying right to work is not trying to fool anybody. I was not discussing the actual intent of the document, but the use of certain keywords that catapult the meaning of it. If that document had been called the freedom of employment act, or the opportunity to work free act, would it have had the same effect as to the power of it’s actions as the “right” phrase? And have you forgotten what “it” is. Covert, possibly subliminal, words you don’t hear are just as directive as those you do.
People are effected by words. This is why how you say it can alter the meaning. You said yourself that people should have the right not to fund leftist politics. If you are going to say that then all taxes should be removed because they are contributory to the same purpose? You can’t escape the government and it’s use of your money. You can only recognize and decide on how the action is presented so you can determine its use.
Rights is a power word for the purpose of battering some listeners into acceptance as they mis-understand it’s intent. Others understand the intent and reject it. But not everyone can make that discovery and reaction and that’s why the improper use of the word is so bad.
rwood