The Farmer File: Gay abandon - "...the word "gay" has been hijacked."

naplesnews ^

[Reactionary]

There are hundreds of examples of how the language has been shaped for political purposes. The word "gay" is merely one example of a word that has been appropriated for political reasons.

Other phrases and words that are examples of this are: Homophobia, racism, sexism, family planning, social justice, choice, hate, hate speech, discrimination, etc, etc.

In Orwell's 1984 these kinds of short phrases and words are described as being engineered by the Party for the purpose of narrowing the scope of political thought. Why? So that the idea of an alternative to the political rule of the Party becomes impossible. When one controls the language, one controls the categories of thought, especially the categories of political thought.

Think about buzzwords that everyone is familiar with and ask yourself what political agenda is hidden in their meaning. There are hundreds of examples. Most of the political language in use today is what Orwell called Duckspeak because the words are endlessly repeated to express a rigid set of political ideas.

[NEWwoman]

There was a western comic strip a few decades ago by Stan Lynde called "Rick O'Shay". His girlfriend was "Gay Abandon". When they got finally got married, she became "Gay O'Shay".
Good thing they disconnected the comic strip, or her name would be a bad word.

[unspun]

How on earth did the little boy get the idea that "gay" was a bad word?

Because homosexuality is a gross perversion, a lie against the facts of life.