{"id":77352,"date":"2021-04-05T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77352"},"modified":"2021-04-02T06:08:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T11:08:39","slug":"evils-of-the-leftist-lexicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77352","title":{"rendered":"Evils Of The Leftist Lexicon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I first observed that Big Left was devaluing the term “Holocaust” – redefining it as “any social change Big Left doesn’t approve of” – over 30 years ago. To be fair that one never really took off – at the time, when people still took “Never Forget” seriously. I’m less sanguine about Big Left’s next attempt to sandbag that word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next came “Fascist”. “Anti”-Fa was only the latest among decades of hijacking, during which “Fascism” became equated with “any idea I, a member of Big Left, disagree with on any level” (as opposed to “Socialism combined with nationalism”). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Hitler” and “Nazi” started taking it in the shorts during the George W. Bush administration, but their devaluation in the not-very-informed minds of a generation is proceeding apace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Likewise “Racist”, “Misogynist” and pretty much any socially-loaded “-phobia”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now? “Jim Crow”<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Big Left, words no longer have meanings. Or, rather, they’re working overtime to detach words for the meanings they’ve always had. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I first observed that Big Left was devaluing the term “Holocaust” – redefining it as “any social change Big Left doesn’t approve of” – over 30 years ago. To be fair that one never really took off – at the time, when people still took “Never Forget” seriously. I’m less sanguine about Big Left’s next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,24,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-for-the-language","category-culture-war","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77353,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77352\/revisions\/77353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}