In his essay Politics and the English Language George Orwell observes that “the English language becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.” Such are things in the hyper-sensitive world of American political correctness. The latest stink comes from Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanual. Some time last summer Emmanual called some liberal special interest groups “fucking retarded” because they were going to run ads against some Democrats not supportive of ObamaCare. The Special Olympics organization was offended and Emmanual was quick to issue an apology to their chairman. Sarah Palin, who has a son with Downs Syndrome, was also offended and called for Obama to fire Emmanual. That’s not going to happen. Obama lacks both brains and stones and Emmanual provides them for him.
Palin also compared retarded to the “N-word.” While I empathize with Mrs. Palin, I think she is wrong. Nigger is clearly a pejorative term taken from the word negro. It has become socially unacceptable because it is so offensive to black people. So offensive, in fact, that the only people that can say it are black rappers. Retarded, on the other hand, is a real word. It means “slow or limited in intellectual or emotional development.” Rahm Emmanual is just another left wing asshole from Chicago but he used a descriptive term in referring to some liberal groups and he was right. Let’s face it, the Democrat’s constituency is made up of young people that don’t know any better, bureaucrats that are dependent on big government, teachers and other union members, the professionally unemployed and retards!
Words convey ideas. The medical establishment introduced “mentally retarded” into the lexicon in the 50’s and 60’s to replace previous diagnostic terms such as “idiot” and “moron” that were thought to be offensive. They don’t even use the term any more. Retarded has been replaced with “developmental disability”, “intellectual disability”, “special needs”, “cognitive disorder” and who knows what else.
Palin also compared retarded to the “N-word.” While I empathize with Mrs. Palin, I think she is wrong. Nigger is clearly a pejorative term taken from the word negro. It has become socially unacceptable because it is so offensive to black people. So offensive, in fact, that the only people that can say it are black rappers. Retarded, on the other hand, is a real word. It means “slow or limited in intellectual or emotional development.” Rahm Emmanual is just another left wing asshole from Chicago but he used a descriptive term in referring to some liberal groups and he was right. Let’s face it, the Democrat’s constituency is made up of young people that don’t know any better, bureaucrats that are dependent on big government, teachers and other union members, the professionally unemployed and retards!
Words convey ideas. The medical establishment introduced “mentally retarded” into the lexicon in the 50’s and 60’s to replace previous diagnostic terms such as “idiot” and “moron” that were thought to be offensive. They don’t even use the term any more. Retarded has been replaced with “developmental disability”, “intellectual disability”, “special needs”, “cognitive disorder” and who knows what else.
Instead of trying to ban the use of some words we should be more concerned about the liberal practice of co-opting words and changing their meaning. Being a white, middle aged Christian, I know I belong to an “un-offendable” group but it really irritated me when Bill Clinton tried to convince us that taxes were “contributions.” It bothers me that Obama is getting away with equating “fairness” to taxing the crap out of the producers to pay for the moochers. And it really ticks me off that liberals have convinced a substantial minority in this country that dependency is “freedom.” Freedom is the original F-word for liberals and we should never trust them when they use it. As Orwell also said: “Political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
3 comments:
AMEN!When are christians and conservatives going to get sick and tired of supporting the people who think we owe them something? Is there going to be an uprising? Are we going to grow some nads? Speaking of the english language: I was amazed that "ain't" is in the dictionary! When did that become a real word? Watch "Idiocracy"....It's a movie that literally shows what we're becoming.
next we'll use mental midgets...oh shoot that offends dwarves, AKA little people. on another note "equal rights" are touted libs to garner more votes, even trying to get convicts the same rights as you and i...amensty for illegals, more votes!!
Good article, Steve. I hope you continue on educating and I really wish you could get into a bigger market. Your March issue reminded me that a liberal friend of mine told me before the election that I had to vote for Obama "BECAUSE HE'S BLACK"! Olberman is an idiot and I can only think that he's got a job because he's giving sexual favors. With that big ass he's got to be. The tea partiers are a threat to liberals because we're smarter and have more influence. We know Obama got elected by cheating. No matter what happens, we will NOT DRINK THE KOOLAID!
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