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abaldwin360:

This morning I came across this post on reddit and had to post it here because this is actually something I have been thinking about for the last few days.

It seems any more people throw around a lot of words that they have no idea as to the actual meaning of. It seems the media and our political leaders have “programmed” us to accept specific concepts associated with words such as “liberal” and “conservative”  so that they conjure specific images that are unrelated to the word’s original meaning while at the same time substitution “soft and fuzzy” words like “enhanced interrogation” to describe things like torture.

This comes up a lot in debates I have with people over “pro-life”. It seems a lot of people in the general population don’t understand that the pro-life movement’s goal is to outlaw abortion and call themselves pro-life because they take it at face value as a “warm and fuzzy” term, it’s like double speak, or even more accurately a “dog whistle” term that means one thing to the general population but means something else entirely to a specific part of the population.

Reddit user ExcessivePunctuation:

Liberal, conservative, right-wing, left-wing, morality, socialist, and fascist. All basically meaningless now.

140 character limits on one major social tool of our day. Sensationalism and narcissism everywhere.

Torture? Enhanced interrogation. Terrorist? Protestor? Interchangeable.

It seems we’re being herded down a path where the only responses can be manic cheering or an enraged lashing out.

Trade union. Corporation. Big Government. Small business. Teachers. Strike. Every term seems loaded with such baggage that rational discussions feel like a mine field. Few bother navigating this mine field, so most discussions are degraded to the point of futility.

This wasn’t always like this. Perhaps it’s more reflective of myself than of the cultural climate, but it feels like something has really changed.

More on newspeak.

charlesherbertbest:

Hell is being read an endless list of horrible fanfiction euphemisms for genitals. 

Hell :)