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I have recently been wondering if semantics is taught anymore, or even mentioned to today's students. You see so much in the way of "loaded" words, in everything from polls to advertising. Politics, of course, is rife with it.

"I have recently been wondering if semantics is taught anymore, or even mentioned to today's students. You see so much in the way of "loaded" words, in everything from polls to advertising. Politics, of course, is rife with it."

And pro-lifer's have lost the propaganda war. You've heard the phrase "Every Child a Wanted Child?" Here's my bumper sticker: "Every Child a Child."

Introduction to Eugenics (www.eugenics-watch.com):

The dominant figure in the eugenics movement in the United States, considered by the English to be a model of crypto-eugenics, was Major General Frederick Osborn, a master propagandist. In 1956, he said people "won't accept the idea that they are in general, second rate. We must rely on other motivation." He called the new motivation "a system of voluntary unconscious selection." The way to persuade people to exercise this voluntary unconscious selection was to appeal to the idea of "wanted" children. Osborn said, "Let's base our proposals on the desirability of having children born in homes where they will get affectionate and responsible care." In this way, the eugenics movement "will move at last towards the high goal which Galton set for it."

I have recently been wondering if semantics is taught anymore, or even mentioned to today's students. You see so much in the way of "loaded" words, in everything from polls to advertising. Politics, of course, is rife with it.

Semantics? How about phonics?

At age 18, young people are thrown, bound and gagged, onto the street of life. For those who go to college, it's age 22. With children raised on TV/MTV and popular music, it's amazing that there's anything left of our culture.

The first thing we do is kill all the government schools...

I have recently been wondering if semantics is taught anymore, or even mentioned to today's students. You see so much in the way of "loaded" words, in everything from polls to advertising. Politics, of course, is rife with it.

I have maintained for several year that rhetoric is no longer taught because it is being used against us. Logic is no longer taught because it would protect us.