[Ham] When USA finalist Carrie Prejean was asked about her position on same sex marriage... Gentlemen, that's "political correctness" gone mad.
[Arlo] I presume you share the same outrage for the atrocious PC attacks on the Dixie Chicks and Bill Maher? Or, like Platt, is it only "PC" when its the "left" doing it a "right-wing" view? [Ham] If you've read Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" you'll recognize this kind of verbal obfuscation as a propaganda device to promote "Doublethink". [Arlo] Actually I believe the Orwellian phrase you're after is "Newspeak". "Doublethink" refers to the act of holding two contradictory beliefs. Sort of like what you evidence yourself. You rage against "Newspeak" while championing the "Newspeak" of your party. That's "Doublethink". In any event, here's how Orwell describes Newspeak. "The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the [Party's] world-view and mental habits ... , but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought - that is, a thought diverging from the principles of [the Party] - should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods." (Orwell) It would be wise if you had the ability to see how this applies as much to "conservatives" as it does to "liberals". "War on Terror" is itself an example of "Newspeak", as is "Patriot Act". I presume here too you share the same outrage to see "torture" labeled "interrogation techniques"? Or again, is it only "PC" when the labeling goes against your selected political party's chosen term? "We call it X, they call it Y, so Y must be the Newspeak". If that's all you offer, then you aren't offering any solution at all. [Ham] Joseph Goebbels made effective use of Doublethink in his support of Hitler's campaign for power in Nazi Germany. [Arlo] A lesson not lost of political ideologues of BOTH political parties in this country. And until you have the brains to recognize that, all you're doing is furthering Goebbels efforts. James' short piece seems interesting and insightful, but so long as you wield it to condemn "those evil leftists", while remaining blind and unable to see its evil manifestations within the actions and assertions of the "right", you remain ineffectual and actually work to prop up the very system you feel you are raging against. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
