02-20-2021, 02:02 AM
(02-19-2021, 08:45 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(02-19-2021, 07:55 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I won't be taking orders from a fascist clique like the Wokes.
I spent a bit looking up a definition of 'woke' and came up with "alert to injustice in society, especially racism". This is about as opposite as one can come to a 'racist clique', as fascists are generally in favor of racism and violence favoring their own supposedly superior group. I guess this is typical. You redefine words like 'American' and 'racist' to mean whatever you want them to mean. indicating by that very use or the common words in ways incompatible with how most people use them that you don't think like most people. You worldview is badly skewed.
Why not redefine your usage of words like 'fascist' and 'woke' too? Just make it more flagrant that you are out of touch?
Like a typical fascist, commie, or cultist, Classic X'er uses Newspeak, the perverse language nominally English but that destroys the human faculty of communication by turning every word into a lie. Orwell got a rap from the Hard Left for attributing it to its idols Stalin and later Mao... but the Nazis used the technique in German. Words translated into English that sound benign mean something very different, and horrible, in the Nazi lexicon. For example, "protective custody" that someone sought as an escape from mob violence became incarceration as if one were a criminal... OK, in Nazi Germany, a Jew was a criminal by birth. "Special treatment" which on the surface suggests protection from typically meant summary execution. Resettlement in the East meant being shipped off not to what had for years been vibrant Jewish communities but instead consignment to death camps. This was in the service of the Final Solution of the Jewish Question... and we know what that means.
Donald Trump gave plenty of warning that he would be a dreadful leader, and in my awareness of Orwell I could recognize Trump doing Newspeak, exploiting words to make them mean to listeners something very different from what he intended them to mean. Trump did the worst lies possible, the Orwellian distortion of words until they have no meaning other than what he wants them to mean.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.