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Liberal doublespeak: Words that don’t mean what they say
August 19, 2014 |
John R. Smith | Print Article
It’s hard for the average person to translate the left’s euphemisms into plain English. So let’s look at some fabricated words and phrases they use to deceive, including:
Affirmative Action — A leftist term that makes preferential treatment for a particular race or minority group sound positive and moral.
Crony Capitalism — A phrase used by the left to describe governmental favors to businesses, as if capitalism is the cause, when, in fact, favoritism is a hallmark of fascism and socialism.
Custodial Artist – A euphemism for janitor.
Domestic Engineer – A euphemism for housewife.
Economically Disadvantaged Area – Euphemism for ghetto.
Enlarged Physical Condition – A nice way to describe someone who’s fat.
Ethnic Cuisine — Otherwise known as foreign food.
Fair Share — A liberal demand, requiring high-income earners to pay sky-high taxes to share their wealth with under-achievers, causing economist Thomas Sowell to ask, “What is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?”
Gender Reassignment –
– A sex change.
Hate Speech or
Hateful Policies — Speech or policy that the left disagrees with and wants eliminated, but described in a way to make you believe such policies promote hate, when they are merely written by people the left hates.
Herstory — A deviation of the word “history,” used to describe a historical study of women’s affairs to offset the “male bias” of history.
Homophobia — The left’s description of people who disagree with the political positions of the LGBT community.
Murderer – A lumberjack.
One-Percenters — A derogatory, class-warfare term used by the left to describe the wealthiest strata of society.
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Outdoorsman — The new leftist doublespeak for someone who used to be called a bum; later commonly referred to as “homeless person.”
Pathologically High-Spirited – A psycho.
Political Correctness — An edict dictating that the masses conform to the principles of the left or be punished for past opinions.
Rainforest — A jungle.
Sanitation Engineer — A garbage man.
Social Justice — A leftist effort to create socialist laws that afford special treatment to the “victims” of inequities to ensure equal outcomes for all; the war against achievement, where excellence and success are unrewarded and people get punished for what their ancestors did.
Special Interests — Groups opposed to the interests of those contributing to leftists.
Substance Abuse — Liberal jargon for drug addiction.Here is what our children need to understand
Liberal doublespeak: Words that don’t mean what they say