msolga wrote:As much as the new weasel words & terms, I hate the way conservatives have highjacked formerly progressive language:
"Work place reform" has nothing to do with reform! It's more about dragging us back to re-union times when employers could happily exploit workers to their hearts' content. Who works a 40 hour week anymore?
And "radical" ... Talk about tarnish a term what used to imply idealism/ reform (in the real sense - improvement) & hope!
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msologa, and all, too:
About this issue of word wars (my definition), although I'm not completely supportive of this site, there IS a good deal of interesting commentary and content on it, worth reading:
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We see a bizarre distortion of this desirable conservative reaction in the Militia mentality in America. Militia "conspiracy theories" are actually quite close to the mark: the U.S. government _is_ being sold out to international interests; the U.N. _is_ beginning to establish a sovereignty-threatening military force; the Constitution _is_ being trashed; the establishment in Washington _is_ effectively a bunch of traitors. But it's not the progressives who are bringing this message to these hard-core backwoods conservatives -- instead the message is getting to them with a doublespeak reverse spin that manages to label the sellout of America as a "liberal" conspiracy! Since a Democrat happens to be in the White House, the NWO myth spinners have been able to transform anti-establishment sentiment into anti-liberal sentiment. Instead of addressing the real enemies of the Constitution (the corporate elite), the Militia tilts its lance toward the liberals and progressives who should be instead its natural allies in defending democracy. Divide and Conquer shows up once again as the most potent tool of autocratic control.
Language is a field of battle, the media is the artillery, and vocabulary is the ammunition.
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