This administration is masterful at using the traditionally “left” or “progressive” vocabulary to warp the words and basically render it meaningless. I am chilled by their ability to use “reparations”, because it undercuts the actual and very real meaning behind reparations for enslavement, forced removal, genocide of African Americans a…
This administration is masterful at using the traditionally “left” or “progressive” vocabulary to warp the words and basically render it meaningless. I am chilled by their ability to use “reparations”, because it undercuts the actual and very real meaning behind reparations for enslavement, forced removal, genocide of African Americans and Native Americans. It completely cheapens and bastardizes these very real and horrible experiences by classifying Jan 6 protestors as also “deserving” of reparations. We need to do better and remember the real meanings of these words.
“Mr. Trump has been fluent in the ways of doublespeak for decades. Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of Mr. Trump’s first book, “The Art of the Deal,” which was published in 1987, concocted the phrase “truthful hyperbole” to describe his subject’s speaking style. As the book states, in Mr. Trump’s voice: “I play to people’s fantasies. … It’s an innocent form of exaggeration — and it’s a very effective form of promotion.” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/trump-wordplay.html)
Reparations.
Weaponization.
Indoctrination.
Oligarchy.
Pay attention to the words they use because it threatens to cheapen so many very important concepts.
This administration is masterful at using the traditionally “left” or “progressive” vocabulary to warp the words and basically render it meaningless. I am chilled by their ability to use “reparations”, because it undercuts the actual and very real meaning behind reparations for enslavement, forced removal, genocide of African Americans and Native Americans. It completely cheapens and bastardizes these very real and horrible experiences by classifying Jan 6 protestors as also “deserving” of reparations. We need to do better and remember the real meanings of these words.
“Mr. Trump has been fluent in the ways of doublespeak for decades. Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of Mr. Trump’s first book, “The Art of the Deal,” which was published in 1987, concocted the phrase “truthful hyperbole” to describe his subject’s speaking style. As the book states, in Mr. Trump’s voice: “I play to people’s fantasies. … It’s an innocent form of exaggeration — and it’s a very effective form of promotion.” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/trump-wordplay.html)
Reparations.
Weaponization.
Indoctrination.
Oligarchy.
Pay attention to the words they use because it threatens to cheapen so many very important concepts.
Yes! This particular practice makes me so ill.