Posted by
conservativedude on Friday, October 24, 2008 3:23:43 AM
This is a continuation of my thoughts on how words and language are being used to affect the campaign and the 'free exchange of ideas' we supposedly can have in this country.
2. "Code Words"
Code words are just one of the many tactics liberals or secular progressives use to turn language against us, and control us through words. Their desire is to ensure everyone walks on eggshells for fear of people being labled a racist or any of those colorful epithets.
In George Orwell's 1984, the Thought Police and government strictly controlled not only the news stories and history, but also the language and words available to the people. Their notion was, if you use government to control the dictionary and what words people have to pull from when trying to speak, make an argument or dissent, you can control and limit that dissent and free thoughts from 'outside the box'. This is more generally accomplished by neutralizing language through "pplitical correctness". Being PC is definetely one explaination the code word whiners use to justify their crusade against innocent diction from the right.
They use race as a shield against every type of criticism.
As I mentioned in
Part I, if you criticize ACORN---or any community organizing groups---you are racist because "community organizer" is code for a black person. Maybe they are right in asserting that connection though, because before this election I never had heard that exact phrase before. Perhaps that's something you discuss at those black-only clubs and frats or black-only scholarship meetings.
This entire problem reeks of professorial indoctrination tactics. In order to warp the minds of my generation, and beyond, they attempt to dig deep into the meaning of words or issues to somehow shine the spotlight on something and say, "See! That's discrimination. This
Donald Duck film showcases classic xenophobia and racism;
X group is wrong and Y group is being persecuted." It's only a valid example if they can denigrate the 'white oppressors'. Public schools and colleges teach white students to hate themselves, instead of telling us all to hate the mistakes of history and say, "never again." They do this by either twisting historical words, or by labeling things as discriminatory and somehow blurring the line between historical problems and 21st century America.
Would those classes be called Flagellation 101 or Self-flagellation 101 if you willingly signed up for it?
By the way, just call me Mr. X.
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The Obama campaign and his surrogates outside as well as within the media have taken a page from the college professor's handbook this election season. On top of community organizers, "hockey moms" and "Joe Six-pack" are considered codewords for white people, and therefore not inclusive to black people. ("So, vote Obama because those Republicans are racists: WE WANT CHANGE!")
There's nothing separatist in identifying yourself as a 'hockey mom' like Sarah Palin, just as there's nothing stopping any men from calling themselves 'hockey dads', or 'basketball dads', or so on. I never played hockey, and my luck with basketball and baseball was less than noteworthy. However, through those years, and my later bowling and tennis years, my mom was always there for me: to take me to practice, and to stay involved and interested while juggling all the other 'mom duties'. That is why, from the moment I first heard "hockey mom", I thought of my mother. While the leftists choose to perceive "hockey mom" as a term to narrowly and hatefully describe white (hick) mothers, I actually see it as an inclusive term to describe all mothers who are active in their children's lives, whether that be through sports, the international club, or studying.
"Joe six-pack" came before "Joe the Plumber" but after Joe "The Gaffe-master" Biden.
First, we're supposed to look past liberals' reverse racism where again, they choose to limit Joe six-pack as being only a white male, and not just any typical, beer-loving, football cheering American. The apparent 'fumble' is that in one's mind's eye Joe is white. How criminal! It's in the eye of the beholder, but since racism-based scare tactics are a major platform of the liberal playbook, they tell us what we see in our minds and that we're wrong.
Thanks liberals, but I saw Ingrid Bergman's stellar performance in Gaslight, so you'll never succeed in 'gaslighting' me!
Other, more generic words or sentiments are applied with racial connotations by Obama or other liberals as a way to tap dance out of that particular minefield. This August at
The Century Foundation panel, they took it a step further and brought up a few more supposed codewords/questions like, "Is he qualified?" The implication there is that the evil, racist opponents of said candidate assume that because he's black, he can not be qualified and that it has nothing to do with a legitimate concern over his record (or lack thereof).
Taking it even further into koolaid country, the panelist continues by saying that those who say he's not "experienced" really mean that he's had different experiences than (white) America. "What does experience really mean?" I guess that depends on your definition of 'experience'.
A psychological point to consider as well is the power of suggestion. Regardless of the truth, after someone tells you, "everyone pictures 'Joe' as a white man", thy will be done. That's what you'll see, even if you originally saw a football-cheering, black woman named Josephine in your mind's eye. And so what if you did see a white guy in your head? I don't want someone trying to tell me what I'm thinking and quantifying the 'political correctness' of it. That's when you know government is too big---when they've encroached on the deepest, darkest recesses of our minds!
In Part III, I'm going to talk about how liberals frequently take a 'positive' from the conservatives and turn it into a negative, much like "Joe sixpack", which they consider not inclusive enough. It often comes down to their interpretation and twisting of the words that in fact makes the phrase not seem "inclusive".