Liberal Linguistic Shenanigans
By John "Birdman" Bryant
Liberalism has been called socialism with a human
face, but in reality it is the same old stinking inhuman arse
which is different only in the sense of having been repackaged
with a more modern vocabulary. In this regard, one of the left's
most successful acts is to have taken a number of common words
with pleasant associations and -- by dint of constant repetition
-- to have associated these words with the leftist cause, while
taking other common words having negative associations and
associating them with causes which the left opposes. In addition
to this the left has developed a number of completely novel terms
which they use with abandon to insult their enemies. This has not
only produced extreme confusion in talking about political and
social issues, but has been a critical factor in the significant
public acceptance of the liberal poison. To illustrate the
problem, I have given below the major terms whose meanings
liberals have perverted, along with their original meanings. From
these it should be apparent how liberalism has become identified
with the liberal high ground when it is in fact a moral and
social swamp.
- Exploitation: According to
liberals, the ill-use of others for
one's own economic ends; actually,
the willing and mutually-profitable interaction of buyers
and sellers in a free labor market.
- Capitalist: According to
liberals, a greedy exploiter of the
labor of others; actually,
someone who pays workers' salaries and attempts to please
consumers by risking his capital and using his natural
talents.
- Fascism: According to
liberals, a horrible totalitarian
government having elements of the free-enterprise system
which makes it even more horrible; actually,
any government which socialists dislike, this dislike
usually being proportional to the amount of freedom the
government allows its citizens.
- Welfare: According to
liberals, help for the needy; actually,
a way of enslaving the poor to bad habits, lack of
education, absence of ambition, a desire for drugs to
fill the empty hours, and -- above all -- dependence on
Big Government and the liberal politicians who run it.
- Mean-spirited: According to
liberals, someone who is
indifferent to the suffering of others, or who enjoys it;
actually,
someone who believes that society's failures are not
automatically entitled to other people's money.
- Compassion: According to
liberals, a desire to help the
less-fortunate; actually,
support for the politicians who tax, tax, tax and spend,
spend, spend in order to pay off their political
constituencies and keep themselves in power.
- Social justice: According to
liberals, taxing the fortunate rich
or denying them some of their privileges in order to help
the unfortunate poor; actually,
penalizing productive people in order to reward
unproductive ones.
- Rights: According to
liberals, the powers given by the
Constitution; actually,
the penumbras which shroud the Constitution in darkness
and give special privileges to certain favored groups.
- Equality: According to
liberals, what all men have; actually,
what all men don't
have.
- Discrimination: According to
liberals, a horrible crime in which
certain groups are treated unjustly and as inferiors for
no good reason; actually,
a natural reaction of reluctance by the members of one
group to interact or mix with the members of a different
group, usually because the two groups are different, it
being natural for people to seek out others of their own
kind.
- Prejudice/Bigotry: According
to liberals, an irrational dislike
of the members of another group; actually,
a sensible reaction of suspicion to those with whom one
is unacquainted, or a rational reaction to the warnings
which one has received from trusted persons about the
members of certain groups.
- Racism: According to
liberals, hating others because of
their skin tone; actually,
having the sense to see that skin color is a marker of
often- profound differences which lead people to take
account of those differences -- differences which
reinforce the natural desire of each person to live,
work, marry and mingle with his own kind.
- Sexism: According to
liberals, unfairly discriminating
against women or holding them in low regard; actually,
recognizing women's limitations and behaving accordingly.
- Antisemitism: According to
liberals, an irrational dislike of
Jews; actually,
a recognition that Jews as a group have a different and
competing agenda from gentiles, and that Jewish influence
over social policies -- from gun control and anti-'hate'
laws to civil rights and communism -- has created an
important threat to America and Western civilization.
- Homophobia: According to
liberals, an irrational fear or
dislike of homosexuals; actually,
a very rational fear and dislike of homosexuals because
of AIDS and unwelcome behavior patterns.
- Affirmative action: According
to liberals, a policy intended to
make up for the evils of past discrimination; actually,
a program of official discrimination against whites and
males, made as a payoff to liberals' minority
constituencies.
- Multiculturalism: According
to liberals, the necessity of
having a society composed of many different ethnic,
racial and sexual types in order to make people see that
'the only real race is the human race'; actually,
a formula for social unrest and chronic unhappiness as a
result of different ethnic, racial and sexual minorities
all vying with one another for power and influence and
hating each other as a result.
- Intolerance: According to
liberals, an irrational refusal to
interact with others, usually because they belong to a
different group; actually,
the courage to stand up to liberal bullying and exercise
one's right of free association.
- Extremist: According to
liberals, a wild-eyed bomb-throwing
cross- burning hate-filled government-bashing
rabble-rousing gun-loving lunatic; actually,
a sensible person who wishes to preserve his culture, his
country and his race, and who therefore does not
appreciate having his nation, his own neighborhood or his
own business overrun by alien hordes, druggies,
welfarites, criminals, voodooists, homosexuals, AIDS
carriers, or any of the other "diverse" groups
which liberals are so assiduous in championing.
- Hate: According to liberals,
an undesirably-negative state of mind, usually exhibited
for no good reason toward members of groups to which one
does not belong; actually,
the kind of emotion which sensible people exhibit toward
bad things (as they might exhibit toward blacks because
of their high crime rate and low achievement level), and
which liberals exhibit in tremendous abundance toward
anyone who questions their dogmas.
- Love: According to liberals,
what everyone should have toward everyone else, and
particularly toward the inferior, the degenerate, and the
degraded, especially if they come with an off-color skin
or off-color sexuality; actually,
a feeling which one can have at most for only a few
special people, thus leading us to conclude that when
liberals say they love everyone, they actually love no
one, and -- given the results of their policies -- it is
no surprise that the feeling is mutual.
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