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A dagger is pointed at the heart of America. Its point is the deliberate misuse of the English language for the purpose of influencing how Americans speak and think. If the dagger is driven home, reason itself will be the principal victim.
Reason is the human faculty concerned with forming good conclusions and making sound judgments.[1] It is the power of intelligent thought, and it takes us step by step on a journey to knowledge. We use words to take that journey because, as the English philosopher Francis Bacon once observed, words are the "footsteps of reason."
But, as Bacon understood quite well, words are a form of code. It is what they stand for that carries meaning, not the words themselves. Thus, to be meaningful, words must be faithful to what they describe. When words lack fidelity, they cease to convey authentic meaning and become an obstacle in the path to knowledge.
In America today, it isn't difficult to find linguistic infidelity. A few conspicuous examples suffice to illustrate the point:
- Undocumented immigrants for illegal aliens
- English plus for Spanish language education
- Economic justice for criminally confiscatory tax policies
- Tax rebates for government handouts to people who pay no taxes
- Tax loopholes for legal ways that people can try to keep their own money
- Affirmative action for legally mandated racism
- Equal employment opportunity for legally required ethnic and gender quotas
- Reproductive health services for abortion clinics
Each of these linguistic deceits is an individual affront to reason, as are thousands of others just like them. But what is more important is that they are part of a deliberate campaign to manipulate our language in order to control how Americans speak and think...
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