Comments on: Words matter: but not as much as liberals think they do

By: Artfldgr

Artfldgr — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:05:59 +0000

just so we all know where this is going, and why the race hate, the religion hate, etc..

hitler wasnt implementing his own ideas… nor was stalin, or mao.. this next thing we are heading to is intended to fulfill engels words.

“All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm… these residual fragments of peoples always become fanatical standard-bearers of counter-revolution and remain so until their complete extirpation or loss of their national character… [A general war will] wipe out all these petty hidebound nations, down to their very names. The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a step forward.” — Friedrich Engels, “The Magyar Struggle,” Neue Rhenische Zeitung, January 13, 1849

hitler and stalin were only fulfiling engels.

we are gearing up.. obama just got his internal army of the young, like putin has nashi. puten has created service and military corps of youths as of this week, and so obama will.

they are going to throw the reactionaries at each other letting them exterminate each other in a huge shoa/holocaust…

that is if they can get that far again.

By: Don Janousek

Don Janousek — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:02:22 +0000

neo-neocon: While I’m not that familiar with the Newspeak in its therapy version, I did spend some fourteen years in the rehabilitation field after my practice of law, so I am familiar with those terms. I once encountered a freshly-minted Master’s recipient from the Rehab Institute at Southern Illinois University who, in her first real life report on a client, referred to someone who used a wheelchair to get around as “ambulatorialy challenged.”

By: Oblio

Oblio — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:01:58 +0000

Beverly is right. We need to adopt a “forward” policy with respect to progressive gibberish, rhetorical base-stealing, and bad faith.

Make no concessions. Challenge every assumption. Make them defend their positions with facts and logic. Make them name the consequences of their policies and take responsibility for them. Demand commitment to a position. Do not fall for the tu quoque head fake. Do not assume they are defining words the way you are; as OB says, they have their own special definitions.

The progressive self-image depends on the assumption that they are the intelligent and well-intentioned party. This assumption should be challenged; the worst people I have known have styled themselves as “progressive.”

By: Don Janousek

Don Janousek — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:56:07 +0000

I dunno. My brothers and I are very proud of the military service of our father and display his flag in tribute every Memorial Day and 4th of July, but the prospect of going around saying, “Hey, my Dad fought in the Big One, Overseas Contigency Operation II, just doesn’t quite do it for me, ya know? And “MAN-made disasters?” Rather sexist, isn’t it? As long as we’re using Newspeak, I nominate “Self-Concious, Carbon-Based, Bi-Pedal, Mammalian Being-Caused Disasters.” Do I have a second on that? (George Orwell must be roaring with laughter wherever he is right now!)

By: waltj

waltj — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:47:42 +0000

Yikes. supposedly.

Spellcheck is my friend, spellcheck is my friend…

By: waltj

waltj — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:06:31 +0000

I’m at a loss as to why people seem to think Obama is sussposedly so “intelligent”. Because he sounds good (when his teleprompter is working, that is)? Because he graduated from Harvard Law? Please. Con men sound good, too. That’s why they can finagle people out of their money. Credentials are nice, too, but I’ve run across more than one idiot with Ph.D., MD, or JD after his name. From good schools, too. It’s what you do after you get the sheepskin that counts. Obama has basically done nothing except get elected to ever-higher office without actually doing any discernible work once he got there. As far his command of facts goes, clearly that does not include those “facts” contained in the U.S. Constitution about bills of attainder and ex post facto laws. And he taught, what, constitutional law? It would be funny if it weren’t so disastrous for the country.

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By: SteveH

SteveH — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:37:53 +0000

The use of MAN alone is perfectly fine as long as its used in reference to a destructive circumstance. See MAN Made Global Warming for proper instruction of when gender seperation is acceptable.

By: FredHjr

FredHjr — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:36:32 +0000

Their manipulation of language to obfuscate reality works because our population increasingly is losing its mental acuity. Even the so-called educated elites in our country would not even bat an eye at this new name for the jihad declared against us back in 622 A.D. Vapid, slothful, proud (of what, I am not sure), and venal. This should be shameful in any normal context, but apparently we not living in normal times or surrounded by a normal culture.

I fear that things really are that dire.

By: Maquis

Maquis — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:12:27 +0000

One of my fellow commenters at HotAir thinks that “man-caused” disasters is too sexist, and suggested Anthropomorphic Disasters. Myself, I feel that “disasters” is a relative term, as one nation’s disaster is another nation’s street dance party. So I submit in keeping with the non-offensive spirit of the new administration we should use the phrase Anthropomorphic Relatively Significant Events. ARSE for short.