{"id":6859,"date":"2015-11-11T11:42:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T11:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/11\/reverse-hijacking-of-liberal-leftist-lingo\/"},"modified":"2015-11-11T11:42:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T11:42:50","slug":"reverse-hijacking-of-liberal-leftist-lingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/11\/reverse-hijacking-of-liberal-leftist-lingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverse Hijacking of Liberal-Leftist Lingo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leftists are consummate linguistic hijackers.  I've been making this point since the inception of this weblog back in aught-four. I won't repeat my examples.  It just now occurred to me that a useful tactic in the culture war might be the reverse hijacking of liberal-leftist lingo<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have done this three times in the  last few days without conscious subsumption under  the italicized rubric.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus 'Black Lives Matter' gets twisted into 'Black Lies<\/em> Matter<\/a>' to highlight the fact that the distortions, falsehoods, and outright lies of many blacks and their liberal-left enablers get people killed, mostly blacks, and undermine the rule of law.<\/span><\/p>\n

'Safe space' and 'trigger warning' are easily mocked as I did<\/a> a few hours ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

All's fair in love and war, and this is a war, muchachos<\/em>.  Make no mistake about it.  The behavior of leftists shows that they see it as a war, as witness their relentless smearing of  Dr. Ben Carson.  They practice without scruple the politics of personal destruction.   They did it to Sarah Palin in an especially vile manner, and to Herman Cain.  If they see politics as a war, we can't see it as a gentlemanly debate.   Mockery and derision are potent weapons as Saul Alinsky recognized and they must be employed  to attack the enemies of the republic and to energize those who, for whatever reason, are impermeable to calm and learned disquisitions.<\/span><\/p>\n

But you must also have rigorous arguments and calm disquisitions at the ready for those who are capable of processing them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Leftists are consummate linguistic hijackers.  I've been making this point since the inception of this weblog back in aught-four. I won't repeat my examples.  It just now occurred to me that a useful tactic in the culture war might be the reverse hijacking of liberal-leftist lingo. I have done this three times in the  last … Continue reading “Reverse Hijacking of Liberal-Leftist Lingo”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}