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Title: Whoever Controls the Language Controls the Debate
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Published: May 20, 2012
Author: The Godfather
Post Date: 2012-05-20 08:06:42 by CZ82
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Views: 2909
Comments: 12
Whoever Controls the Language Controls the Debate
May 18, 2012 by The Godfather
If you can control the language, you can control ideas. By controlling ideas, you can control the way people think and act. Before Frank Schaeffer went over to the Dark Side, he had some good things to say about how liberals think and act. His analysis of language is still applicable: “Think of the use of labels to categorize political activity. Some labels are used to neutralize the actions of certain groups; others denote being ‘one of us,’ acceptable. The words ‘right wing,’ ‘fundamentalist,’ ‘pro-life,’ ‘absolutist,’ and ‘deeply religious,’ are put-downs more than categories. Conversely, think of the unspoken pat on the back and blessing that the following words convey: ‘moderate,’ ‘pluralistic,’ ‘liberal,’ ‘civil libertarian,’ ‘pragmatic,’ and ‘enlightened.”[1]
Consider the following list:
LIBERAL.............................................................CONSERVATIVE
Arsenal of Weapons................................................Gun Collection
Delicate Wetlands..........................................................Swamp
Undocumented Worker................................................Illegal Alien
Cruelty-Free Materials...........................................Synthetic Fiber
Assault and Battery..........................................Attitude Adjustment
Heavily Armed.....................................................Well-protected
Narrow-minded..........................................................Righteous
Taxes or Your Fair Share...........................................Coerced Theft
Commonsense Gun Control....................................Gun Confiscation Plot
Illegal Hazardous Explosives..........................Fireworks or Stump Removal
Non-viable Tissue Mass...............................................Unborn Baby
Equal Access to Opportunity............................................Socialism
Multicultural Community..........................................High Crime Area
Fairness or Social Progress..............................................Marxism
Upper Class or “The Rich”..........................................Self-Employed
Progressive, Change........................................Big Government Scheme
Homeless or Disadvantaged..............................Bums on Welfare & Leeches
Sniper Rifle...............................................Deer Rifle with scope
Investment For the Future...........................................Higher Taxes
Healthcare Reform............................................Socialized Medicine
Extremist, Judgmental, or Hater.....................................Conservative
Truants............................................................Homeschoolers
Victim or Oppressed............................Criminal or Lazy Good-For-Nothing
High Capacity Magazine................................Standard Capacity Magazine
Religious Zealot..................................................Attends Church
Fair Trade Coffee.......................................Overpriced Yuppie Coffee
Exploiters or “The Rich”..................................Employed or Land Owner
The Gun Lobby........................................................NRA Members
Assault Weapon............................................Semi-Automatic Handgun
Fiscal Stimulus.......................................New Taxes and Higher Taxes
Same Sex Marriage...........................................Legalized Perversion
Mandated Eco-Friendly Lighting.................Chinese Mercury-Laden Light Bulbs
Accepted Fact.........................................................Horse Shit
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#2. To: CZ82 (#0)
Whoever Controls the Language Controls the Debate
F'ing DUH.
THIS is FACT.
The libTURDS have had a free pass when it comes to setting the terms of the discussion for decades.
Did you ever notice that often libTURDS have NOTHING but words?
BUT, those words are the bones of what and how people think and act.
ie. "gay", there isn't a F'ing thing "gay" about ANY queer/homosexual that I've ever met or talked to. Without exception they are all the very opposite of "gay".
How about "liberal"? When's the last time the American left was ever "liberal"?
NEVER is when, the left in America is TYRANNICAL and OPPRESSIVE, they HATE the individual and OUR nation. They are FASCISTS with happy rainbow faces, but they are FASCISTS nonetheless.
OUR job as AMERICANS is to NEVER accept their language, to define the argument in OUR, in TRADITIONAL words and concepts.
Remember that the next time you are in a line somewhere and some libTURD fool says " EVERYBODY knows .... fill in libTURD LIE of the day or dogma ....", SPEAK UP!
Say, "NO EVERYBODY does NOT KNOW .... fill in libTURD LIE of the day or dogma ...." then attack the LIE directly.
BE a free individual , NOT a sheeple.
FIGHT while there is still TIME.
FIGHT for your children and theirs.
FIGHT!
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
#3. To: CZ82, mcgowanjm (#0)
If you can control the language, you can control ideas.
"The limits of debate are established in this country before the debate even begins. Everybody else is marginalized, made to seem like Communists or some other disloyal person. Kook, there’s a word! Now it’s conspiracy.
They’ve made that something that can’t even be entertained for a minute – that powerful people might get together and have a plan? Doesn’t happen! You’re a kook, you’re a conspiracy buff!" – George Carlin
There Are No Such Things As Conspiracies
“America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”---Claire Wolfe
#4. To: mcgowanjm, CZ82 (#1)
blah blah blah deflect change the subject yamma yamma ding dong blah blah
LOL!
You ripe libTURDS are DESPERATE to change the subject aren't you FOOL?
It's what you hypocritical SCUM do.
Activism..................................TREASON
equal rights............................special rights for approved subgroups
Gooberment is GOOD...........................Gooberment is DANGEROUS TO US ALL
Diversity................................quotas for libTURD approved subgroups
Re YOU mctoejam,
mctoejam is a brilliant and kind person.......................mctoejam is a deeply stoopid supporter of TYRANNY and a brain dead TOOL and a gibbering libTURD FOOL.
"TRUTH is an ABSOLUTE defense."
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
#5. To: CZ82 (#0)
Take a few minutes...
@WAR.COM: THE INTERNET AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS 5 February 2001
"If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave." Samuel Adams, Rights of the Colonists, 1772
#6. To: Mad Dog (#2)
OUR job as AMERICANS is to NEVER accept their language, to define the argument in OUR, in TRADITIONAL words and concepts.
Traditional words and concepts?
You're joking, right?
Is this an example of "Traditional words and concepts"?
*****
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I didn't know that your name is mininggold calFAG!
calFAG, nothing that you say or do means shit all to me or anybody else with even part of a life.
YOU are a craven little PUSSY calFAG.
My dogs shit out better humans than you are every day calFAG.
Shouldn't you be working or are you just living off of your wife calFAG?
OH, I almost forgot!
Have a SHITTY day cal FAG!
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
*****
Your name calling and hyperbole are hardly what any sane person would consider "Traditional".
In fact, you debate more like a liberal than those you rail against.
Your tactics are straight from The Liberal Debate Playbook.
3. Get as personal and vicious as you can, maybe it will distract your opponent from his train of thought.
4. If you are unable to insult him with the usual insults such as 'racist', 'homophobe', or 'bigot', then insult someone else on his side (someone related to the subject under discussion is preferable but not required).
5. When you're losing, and you usually will be, abruptly change the subject. Again the object of this is to distract and deflect attention from your opponent's argument.
6. Talk loudly and rapidly, don't allow your opponent to get a word in. Remember the more time you consume, the less time your opponent will have.
7. Use hyperbole as an example of your opponent's argument and suggest that that is what they are suggesting.
8. Purposely misunderstand what is being said by your opponent and distort it into something you can use.
9. Make up 'facts' most people don't check them and anyway, you'll be long gone by the time the truth is known, and so will the audience.
11. Act insulted. Take umbrage at the slightest contradiction and act as if it is a personal insult. This will make your personal attack seem warranted and just.
12. Use condescending laughter as much as you can. It serves two purposes, first, it dismisses your opponent as being unworthy of your respect and second, it shows your contempt for his arguments. This is a very powerful tool and can really annoy your opponent and disrupt his train of thought.
“America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”---Claire Wolfe
#7. To: Bill D Berger, Mad Dog (#6) (Edited)
Your name calling and hyperbole are hardly what any sane person would consider "Traditional".
Mad Dog is the perfect example of the contemporary form of conservative/fundie/stalker. I say let him howl.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
#8. To: mininggold (#7) (Edited)
On 2012-05-20 15:24:22, mininggold wrote:To: Bill D Berger, Mad Dog
chester; Your name calling and hyperbole are hardly what any sane person would consider "Traditional".
hag; Mad Dog is the perfect example of the contemporary form of conservative/fundie/stalker. I say let him howl.
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I have the little creep who thinks that child molestation is a funny thing on ignore. It has nothing I give a shit about to say.
You on the other hand hag, unaware as you are of your own constant, and your own apparently unconscious and unremitting invincible personal display of incrediblely basic ignorance of life, your pre-teen girl mean spiritedness and pettiness, and your constant fence post stoopidity, (in ALL matters!); being at the low limit of the bell curve of ALL human populations; are just too F'ing plain ENTERTAINING, and so perfectly ILLUSTRATIVE of WHAT NOT TO BE, (re being a FREE AMERICAN); for me to ever put your stoopid ass on ignore!!!!!!!!!
LOL!
You clowns crack me UP!
Where did I ever claim to represent ANYBODY save my own admittedly flawed INDIVIDUAL self you, you stupid gibbering fucks?
I despise what I know of you from the web.
I wouldn't PISS on you.
What makes you morons think that I give a rusty F what you morons have to bleet?
LOL!
Like I said!
GOOD STUFF!
LOL!
LOL!
LOL!
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
#9. To: mininggold (#7)
Mad Dog is the perfect example of the contemporary form of conservative/fundie/stalker. I say let him howl.
Mad Dog is a piss-poor example of "conservatism".
And don't lump that moronic profane blowhard in with the "fundies".
His master is Satan.
"if you're not cop, you're little people" 
#10. To: Deckard (#9)
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LOL!
I love watching you libTURDS herd up!
The way you nuzzle and comfort each other is sweet.
Your mewling seems so much more self assured when you are surrounded by your herd.
btw dickless, what kind of a CONservative uses a handle which is the name of a boss skin job killer who explicates the fact that if you ain't him yer "little people" as he dispatches one of his best killers?
Eh dickless?
LMAO!
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
#11. To: Mad Dog (#10)
Whoever Controls the Language Controls the Debate
Well, looks liked your screwed there, you ignorant sterno head.
"And don't get smart with me you prick. I know where you live. harrowup posted on 2012-04-30 18:55:29 ET Reply Trace"
#12. To: calcon (#11)
.
That's OK calFAG I was talking about you too!
Don't feel left out calFAG.
LOL!
I love watching you libTURDS herd up!
The way you nuzzle and comfort each other is sweet.
Your mewling seems so much more self assured when you are surrounded by your herd.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
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