Words the Left Uses

2 December 2023
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.

Here are a few excerpts from the article Words the Left Uses, by Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, 2 December 2023. The video presentation and the original article reveal much more detail.

 

 

Words the Left Uses Against Us - It controls your thoughts by controlling your language.

In his famous essay, "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell wrote that the English language was becoming "a catalogue of swindles and perversions."

He added that "the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts." And that, dear reader, was in 1946.

The Left has a genius for "swindles and perversions." It is always inventing new words in its fight against reality. A pioneering example was the word "racism." It didn’t exist until 1934, when the German-Jewish medical scientist Magnus Hirschfeld wrote a book, which was translated into English with the title Racism...

It may be hard to believe, but the United States managed to institute and abolish slavery, set up Jim Crow, and segregate schools and neighborhoods without once using a word that society considers indispensable today. How did we manage?...

But the real genius of the Left is in deciding to hate something ancient and normal, inventing a new name for it, and calling it a moral failing...

This is really just another way of measuring media dominance. Those who control our words control our thoughts. What did Orwell call the English language in 1946? "A catalogue of swindles and perversions."...

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