Joseph Goebbels, or maybe it was Jospeh Stalin, once said, “He who controls the language, controls the world.” It’s a theme in George Orwell’s 1984 as well. Controlling the language is the first step to controlling the people. In a related note, Stanford University has compiled a list of harmful language that should never be used, including the word “American.”
Earlier this year, Stanford launched the Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative (EHLI) to rid the English language of words and terms it deemed racist or otherwise offensive. After some painstaking research, they’ve finally come up with some totally insane things to ban.
First, and most ridiculous is getting rid of “American” in favor of “U.S. citizen. Here’s why Stanford thinks it’s so damn offensive:
[‘American’] often refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the Americas (which is actually made up of 42 countries).
Yes, but of those 42 countries, only one has “America” in its name and that’s the United States of America. Also, America is the most important country in the world and since the Americas are part of the world, that makes the USA the most important there as well.
The insanity of this list includes not using the word “insane” by substituting “wild” or “surprising.”
On the abortion front, Stanford says you can’t use “abort” to mean halting something, because it’s offensive to people who abort their unborn babies.
A drug “addict” is no longer an addict, because that offends people who are drug abusers. Stanford say from now on, they are to be known as “persons with a substance abuse disorder.”
People no longer “commit suicide” because now they “die by suicide.” Apparently people who have killed themselves still have the ability to be offended from beyond the grave.
“Child prostitutes” are now “children who have been trafficked and a “Karen” has transformed into a “demanding or entitled White woman,” which seems kind of racist. Can you refer to a black woman as demanding or entitled?
Speaking of race, pretty much every term using “black” like “black mark” and “black sheep” is banned because of the “negative connotations to the color black.” On the flip side, all terms using “white” are out because it makes it seem like white is better than black.
Along those same lines, you can’t use the term “grandfather clause” because, “roots in the ‘grandfather clause’ adopted by Southern states to deny voting rights to Blacks.”
Liberals already axed “illegal alien” in favor of “immigrant” but Stanford says even that is problematic. Instead of “immigrant” the University says “a person who had immigrated” should be used because it’s wrong to “define someone by a singular characteristic.”
Liberals are constantly redefining language to hide their agenda. They changed “gun control” to “gun safety to conceal their unconstitutional plans to disarm Americans. They switched out “abortion” for “essential women’s health care” to mask the fact that it’s an elective surgery that ends a human life.
All of this is part of their effort to make words meaningless. Words are the most powerful weapon against tyranny and lies, so if if they have no meaning, freedom and the truth die. This is another way liberals are trying to disarm the people.
