OUR WORDS ARE OUR WEAPONS

[Left Coast2020]

Calling lies "lies" and theft "theft" and violence "violence," loudly, clearly, and consistently, until truth becomes more than a bump in the road, is a powerful aspect of political activism. Much of the work around human rights begins with accurately and aggressively reframing the status quo as an outrage, whether it's misogyny or racism or poisoning the environment. What protects an outrage are disguises, circumlocutions, and euphemisms - "enhanced interrogation techniques" for torture, "collateral damage" for killing civilians, "the war on terror" for the war against you and me and our Bill of Rights.


http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/271-38/14267-our-words-are-our-weapons

This may take some reading time, but I did and it was worth it.

[Squinch]

1. GREAT article.

[libodem]

2. This was a good read

I thought it might be another scolding from the word police but it is not that at all. Rather the opposite.

It is way past 1984 and the double speak is in full glorious bloom.