Posted on 04/07/2016 5:20:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
Last week, French President Francois Hollande met President Obama in Washington to discuss joint strategies for stopping the sort of radical Islamic terrorists who have killed dozens of innocents in Brussels, Paris and San Bernardino in recent months. Hollande at one point explicitly referred to the violence as "Islamist terrorism."
The White House initially deleted that phrase from the audio translation of the official video of the Hollande-Obama meeting, only to restore it when questioned. Did the Obama administration assume that if the public could not hear the translation of the French president saying "Islamist terrorism," then perhaps Hollande did not really say it -- and therefore perhaps Islamist terrorism does not really exist?
The Obama administration must be aware that in the 1930s, the Soviet Union wiped clean all photos, recordings and films of Leon Trotsky on orders from Josef Stalin. Trotsky was deemed politically incorrect, and therefore his thoughts and photos simply vanished.
The Library of Congress, under pressure from Dartmouth College students, recently banned not just the term "illegal alien" in subject headings for literature about immigration, but "alien" as well. Will changing the vocabulary mean that from now on, foreign nationals who choose to enter and reside in the United States without being naturalized will not be in violation of the law and will no longer be considered citizens of their homeland?
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Our ‘President’ and that whole tribe of creeps around him are half-wits.
You are correct, but that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is not my president, nor will he ever be.
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This was done under orders by the top guy who will do everything in his power to protect his true love. (and that’s not the USA).
I have a lot of respect for Hollande. He is a socialist to the core, but he loves his country, unlike 0bammy. He cares more about France than about a bunch of towelheads.
The Politicization of the English Language:
‘undocumented’ immigrant
‘African’ American
‘progressive’
‘gay’
‘transgender’
A few other examples of how language has been politicized...
Say what you mean, mean what you say!
I always wonder how long it will take for Americans to live down the shame and embarrassment of what two “O” administrations have been.
His stupidity and incompetency is a national joke! No ... a GLOBAL joke!
I remember when “gay” used to mean happy and cheerful. African American is ridiculous since Africa is a continent, not a country and the continent of America is North America
It is The Left that creates the vast majority of NewSpeak, but I walk and talk with Liberals/Democrats/Progressives who simply do not seem to know that they belong to a totally corrupt grouping.
Like children who cover their eyes and think you can’t see them, these idiots think if they ban a term, it no longer exists.
The administration is a textbook example of “arrested development”.
There is one simple thing that every thinking person can do every day—refuse to use the language of the left. When the left owns the language, they own the debate, and when we allow ourselves to be bullied into using their words, we have already lost.
Orwell also wrote about a futuristic dystopia ruled by a Big Brother government that created politicized euphemisms to reinvent reality. He placed his novel in the year 1984, warning Westerners about what was in their future.
Marxists and the post-Alinsky Left politicize EVERYTHING.
And, I do mean ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!!!
Some TV newsperson described natives of the Congo as African-Americans.
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