Category: Political Language
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Homophobia and Carniphobia
One of the purposes of this weblog is to resist the debasement of language and thought, and to recruit a few others to this worthy cause. The term ‘homophobia’ is an excellent example of such debasement. Worse than a question-begging epithet, it is a question-burying epithet. That is, its aim is to obliterate or at least occlude…
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Is Trump a Threat to Democracy?
He most certainly is on the Orwellian subversive's understanding of 'democracy.' For what they mean by it is elite-globalist oligarchy.
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Moderate?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Liz Cheney, one of Donald Trump’s fiercest Republican antagonists, will join Democrat Kamala Harris at a campaign event in Wisconsin on Thursday aimed at reaching out to moderate voters and rattling the former president. (emphasis added) The implication, of course, is that Trump's policies are extreme. What we have here, once again,…
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‘Broken’ and Other Examples of First-Grade English
Stack topper.
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Enlisting William S. Burroughs in the War Against Leftist Language-Abusers
I've been fulminating for over 20 years online against the language-abuse of the language-abusing Left, having found it necessary on only a few occasions to take conservatives to task. Although my Beat credentials are impeccable, I never took William Seward Burroughs seriously enough to suppose he could be enlisted on our side. And then I…
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The Left’s Verbal Theft
A Substack warning to foolish conservatives.
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Michael Anton on “Celebration Parallax”
Here: More tellingly, this charge is an example of something I call the “celebration parallax,” which is explained here. In brief, the celebration parallax holds that the same fact pattern is either true and glorious or false and scurrilous depending on who states it and, crucially, the perceived intent of the speaker. So if someone says…
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Kamala as Zelig
Do you remember Zelig? If Zelig was the human chameleon, Kamala Harris is the political chameleon. Official Trailer #1 Mia Farrow as Kamala Who is Kamala Harris? The Language Nazi cannot resist pointing our that the author of the linked piece confuses 'errant' with 'arrant' about five paragraphs down.
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Past-Directed Gaslighting
An egregious example of present-directed gaslighting of the American people by the regime and the regime media is their dismissal of the numerous videos depicting Joe Biden's physical decrepitude as 'cheap/deep fakes.' What then are we to call the lie being currently spread by the regime and its shills that Kamala Harris was never the…
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The Bloodbath Canard
The corpulent Democrat Jerry Nadler repeated it today before the Christopher Wray congressional hearing. The context-dropping crapweasel knows full well what Trump meant, and if you don't, Snopes will clue you in.
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A Quote of Note from J. D. Vance’s RNC Speech
Here is the part of Vance's speech Thursday night that impressed me the most. It also impressed Cathy Young at The Bulwark, but for opposite reasons. It sounds Blut-und-Boden to her: "I think it’s fair to say that this portion of Vance’s speech had overtones of blood-and-soil nationalism." Fair? Or scurrilous? You know, one of…
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Signposts on the Way to the Insane Asylum
Looting is shopping without money. The 2022 riots were peaceful. The border is secure. Trespassing is insurrection. Dissent is hate. Free speech is hate speech. Barring candidates from the ballot is democratic. Abortion is health care. 'Migrants' are newcomers. The only purpose of guns is to kill people. Math is racist. There is no 'migrant'…
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‘Progressive’ and ‘Conservative’
In their contemporary usages these terms are mainly misnomers. If progress is change for the good, there is little progressive about contemporary 'progressives.' They are more accurately referred to as regressives. Or do you think that allowing biological males to compete in women's sporting events is a change for the good? It is obviously not,…