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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 08:45 AM Original message |
The Right Wingers Have Hijacked The English Language |
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Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
1. Conservative |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 08:56 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Yes, that's another one, for sure. |
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Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:00 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. There are plenty of conservatives |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
2. Unrec for failing to recognize that the left does the same thing |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 08:57 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. You have got to be fucking kidding me. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 08:58 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. QED |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:02 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. fail |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:04 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Thanks for the support. I'm eagerly awaiting the discussion about |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:06 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Me too. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:14 AM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Your failure to grasp my examples does not invalidate them |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:27 AM Response to Reply #19 |
25. Perhaps if you tried to actually provide something to back up those examples |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:28 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Reply #20 is more than sufficient to answer your question |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:08 AM Response to Reply #6 |
14. Sorry...but lying about the meaning of a word is not the same as using different terminology. |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:11 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Example: A pimp is a "Sex Worker" but is not necessarily a prostitute as well. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:13 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Yes, but a pimp does work in the business of prostitution |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:13 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. "Sex industry" is code language, a euphemism for the business of prostitution |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:28 AM Response to Reply #17 |
26. So really Republicans are "Patriots"???? "Liberals" are people looking for a free hand out??? |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:30 AM Response to Reply #26 |
29. No, I didn't say any of those things |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:31 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Logic is fundemental. Don't compare things if you have no comparison. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:32 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Co-option of language cuts both ways |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:34 AM Response to Reply #32 |
35. I repeat and use your words. |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:33 AM Response to Reply #17 |
34. you are still not saying the same thing that the OP was saying |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:57 AM Response to Reply #34 |
42. You know very well that when someone who says "sex worker" is usually referring to illegal activity |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 10:15 AM Response to Reply #42 |
52. not true |
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Berry Cool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 10:08 AM Response to Reply #34 |
48. Actors, models and retail salespeople ALL "qualify as 'sex workers' technically"? |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 10:13 AM Response to Reply #48 |
51. I did not say all actors, models or salespeople |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:56 AM Response to Reply #17 |
41. Did 'sex worker' ever have ANY other connotation? Except, possibly, |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 10:02 AM Response to Reply #41 |
45. I see no meaninful difference between coining a euphemism from scratch and re-defining |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 10:48 AM Response to Reply #45 |
59. If you see no meaningful difference, then you do NOT understand. nt |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 10:03 AM Response to Reply #17 |
46. Come on, Slack, "sex industry" is an umbrella term |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 10:10 AM Response to Reply #46 |
50. I don't recall ever hearing that term before it was employed to describe prostitution |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 10:16 AM Response to Reply #46 |
54. thank you |
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Pholus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:20 AM Response to Reply #6 |
21. So, hey there, slack old buddy... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:22 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. No problem - "Family values" is code for keeping women barefoot and pregnant, anti-gay marriage, etc |
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Pholus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:29 AM Response to Reply #23 |
28. Nope, just don't talk often. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:31 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. I post on a couple of firearm-related forums, but never on Free Republic |
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Pholus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:34 AM Response to Reply #30 |
36. Fair enough. |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 08:57 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Actually, no. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 08:59 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. You have been as much blinded by ideology as those you have rightly criticized |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:02 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Nope. Show us how the words you listed have had their |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:17 AM Response to Reply #10 |
20. What would "pro-choice" mean to an intelligent being from Mars who knows nothing of Earth politics? |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:36 AM Response to Reply #20 |
37. but you are failing to understand that term in context then |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:58 AM Response to Reply #37 |
43. Pro-abortion would be inaccurate, of course, as is "pro-life" |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 10:08 AM Response to Reply #37 |
49. OK, how about the word "choice" as a parallel of the examples presented in the OP? |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 10:16 AM Response to Reply #20 |
53. You're conflating the corruption of the meaning of words |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:48 AM Response to Reply #2 |
39. One word that has not changed - |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:00 AM Response to Original message |
9. It is so much worse than the denigration of individual words - they've distorted the entire language |
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Gman2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:23 AM Response to Reply #9 |
24. We need to give credit where due. Newt is the chief revisor. He invented it. |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:11 AM Response to Original message |
15. "Terrorist" |
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Gman2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:21 AM Response to Original message |
22. I could really care less about positive words. I have debated for months now on hitler as socialist. |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:42 AM Response to Reply #22 |
38. this was an example I was thinking of |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:51 AM Response to Reply #22 |
40. There it is. Redivisionism and Redefinition of common words and history. |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 10:34 AM Response to Reply #22 |
56. They own Hitler |
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DU GrovelBot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 10:01 AM Response to Original message |
44. The spin masters use it top-down b/c they understand the psychology of who it targets |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
47. Big time |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
55. "Freedom" |
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