Monday 1 August 2011

Why am I not allowed to say it like it is?

With all the recent shouting about Mr. Anders Breivik in the air, I think I have to clean up one more linguistic mess. Mr. Breivik is continually being referred to as a "right-wing extremist" or "rightist radical". It has been a common theme throughout history for the Left to label their finest men with such cliche titles. For example - let's take Benito Mussolini or Adolf Hitler. Both were praised by socialists and other Leftists during the 1920's and 1930's. George Bernard Shaw (the leading Fabian socialist and British intellectual) went as far as to call Mussolini "responsible socialist leader". Fascism is clearly a form of Leftism - it is based around the idea of the most extreme type of collectivism. And Hitler was, after all, a Nazi. That is to say, a National Socialist. Clearly he was vying with Stalin and Roosevelt for the title of World's Most Powerful Leftist of his day (and, as we know, that rivalry ended with war as most socialist projects do).
But what have the Leftists done now? They have labeled these men "right-wing extremists" so that they are no longer associated in one group together! Instead I am the one getting associated with them, since I openly claim to be a right-wing radical. The right-wing, however, has nothing to do with egalitarianism, collectivism, or militarism. These are all aspects of Leftism. And now Mr. Breivik, some murdering nut-job from Norway, got shoved into the same category. From what I know of his views he has recently demanded a lot of things in a statement he made from prison, and one of those demands was the abdication of the King of Norway, His Majesty Harald V! I don't know about you, but I never heard of a right-winger demanding something like that. On the contrary, it is clearly a Leftist sentiment.
Leftists are excellent at turning out such linguistic tricks. They have managed to change "liberalism" into "socialism" and now "the far Left" into "the far Right". Now I don't know how I can describe my political views without having to go into an hour-long explanation!

People interested in language manipulation should listen to George Carlin. He was one man who always said it like it is: "Government want to tell you things you can't say because they're against the law, or you can't say this because it's against a regulation, or here's something you can't say because its a...secret; "You can't tell him that because he's not cleared to know that." Government wants to control information and control language because that's the way you control thought, and basically that's the game they're in."
And the Left is synonymous with Government (except for a few self-proclaimed Leftist Anarchists who are living in an impossible dreamworld...)

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