“Newspeak was the official language of Oceania* and had been devised to meet ideological needs of English Socialism. . . It was expected that Newspeak would have finally superseded Oldspeak (or Standard English, as we should call it) by about the year 2050. . . The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of English Socialism, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. . . Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum.” Text from “1984” by George Orwell, published in 1949.
DEMOCRATS DID NOT TAKE “1984” AS A WARNING, BUT AS THEIR GAME PLAN!
The earliest I can personally recall Democrats/Progressives/Marxists trying to force Americans to change the words we use was in the late 1970s. I was very active with the National Organization for Women (NOW).** From NOW’s DC headquarters came down the edict: don’t use the words “mother” and “father,” say “parent.” I thought that was silly, but was too naïve then to understand that the Hard Left had taken over NOW and that their goal was to transform America into a Marxist hellhole by destroying the family and turning children against their mothers & fathers. The results of this plan have been evident for some time now and grow increasingly worse.
“TO MAKE ALL OTHER MODES OF THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE”
No doubt there were many times in the interim that I was present when a looney Liberal barked orders at someone due to his/her choice of a “wrong” word; however, my memory has deleted these events: 2006 was the next time I can remember being dictated to about my choice of words. It was during a small meeting of Oregon attorneys: “illegal aliens” was not allowed to be uttered even though federal statutes were (and are) replete with this LEGAL term. Like a child, I was corrected by a Leftist bully and told to say “undocumented immigrants.” The irony of one attorney telling another attorney that she was not allowed to use LEGAL terminology was lost on me at the time. The demands of Big Brother/Joe Biden have only gotten more frequent and more threatening since then. At least this bully did not beat me with a baseball bat.
In 2017 I stumbled upon a blog wherein hate-filled “academics” were discussing how babies are not born “male” or “female.” They claimed that the doctor or the parents arbitrarily assigned “male” or “female” to the newborn and put it on the birth certificate. Ha! Ha! Ha! I can still see the look on my neighbor’s face as I tried, unsuccessfully, to explain this delusion to him. The delusions have only expanded since then. Innocent people are being fired for using the “wrong” pronoun in America, and being jailed in Canada.
There is no such thing as “CIS genders;” therefore, this word describes only delusions. But, if the thought police can force enough people to use this made-up terminology, a generation hence, “all other modes of thought” regarding gender will be impossible, just like Big Brother/Joe Biden demands.
“DIMINISH THE RANGE OF THOUGHT”
The America Last Cult has made up many words to fit the dystopian world they are in the process of creating. To fit this new world and/or to hide what they are doing from the masses, they have also bastardized long-held definitions. Three relatively recent examples: 1) They changed the definition of “recession,” hoping to hide the fact that Big Brother/Joe Biden intentionally created increases in virtually all goods & services in order to impoverish Americans; 2) They changed the definition of “white supremacist” to include anyone who criticizes government policies; and 3) They changed the definition of “equality” to mean, if your skin is not white & you are unhappy with your life, you are a victim of successful “white” Americans. Hell, Asian-Americans are now “white” because they have a high success ratio.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION & BELONGING
Eeeeeeeeeegads! I cannot keep up! Now the Hate America Cult has added another letter to their list of what they pretend to care about: “belonging.” There is no diversity in DEIB because, regardless of a person’s attributes, he/she is not allowed to express diversity of thought. Equity is another way of explaining that “losers” are not to blame for their own situations, the “winners” are. Inclusion is just another way of excluding people who do not buy into this Racist paradigm, especially “white” heterosexual Christian men. Belonging, the newest word to be added to this alphabet soup of mind control, is just another way of saying you can belong to our cult if you leave your individuality and your own thoughts at the door before you enter the delusional world we are creating.
“Words are violence” according to the America Haters when facts are spoken or written; but murder, vandalism, arson, assault, shoplifting, burglary, robbery are not. Sounds exactly like George Orwell’s “1984” dystopia. In Orwell’s world Big Brother slogans were plastered everywhere, the third one being correct: “Ignorance of voters is the Democrat Party’s strength.”
“War Is Peace”
“Freedom Is Slavery”
“Ignorance Is Strength”
I was so naive when I first read 1984, I kept telling myself that something like this could never happen- and here we are today, living it!
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