Seeing the media and politicians blatantly mangle our language to produce their spin regarding the Los Angeles riots – yes, they are riots and perhaps an insurrection, not mostly peaceful protests – takes me back to my younger years.
We used to have garbage men. It was not a derogatory term. Think of it as more like calling a spade a spade.
But, the feelings-above-all-else people decided those who spent their days handling what others have tossed needed an emotional pick-me-up. And they deduced that handling feces, rotten food and various disgusting fluids would be easier for those involved if we called those workers sanitation engineers.
It just sounds so professional and educated. No raise, you understand, just an atta boy. I’m not sure it worked, but those in charge of massaging the language could indulge in orgies of self-congratulation over the good they had done and that’s all that really mattered to them.
I cannot state with absolute certainty whether garbage men morphing into sanitation engineers was the first rebranding, but it seems to me that about the same time janitors became custodians.
Housekeepers at institutions such as hospitals became environmental aides. And so it went.
Fast-forward to today and the linguistic gymnasts have perfected their craft as the ultimate leftist political tool.
Illegal immigrants are merely undocumented. It sounds like all these scofflaws forgot to do is sign some form, or submit some minor fee. Just some more bureaucratic red tape.
It obscures that all have entered this country illegally. Every single welfare-sucking one of them. Many of them did so toting an arrest record from foreign lands, one that too many have added to here.
They are criminals in the traditional definition: one who has commited a crime.
You can attempt to sanitize that reality by calling them undocumented, and fool the brain-dead portion of the nation. But, an increasing percentage of the population sees through the charade.
That doesn’t keep the political left and LameStream media from continuing the practice. They are drunk with power from their success at using COVID-19 to induce draconian hysteria. They made up the six-foot rule, told us masks were the solution and, eventually, got the susceptible portion of the population rushing like lemmings to fight over vaccines that overpromised and under-delivered in terms of protection.
We now are finding out it was mostly lies. The six-foot distancing was something cobbled up, with no scientific proof of its effectiveness.
They might have gone for six miles, but even the tinpot dictators realized their assumed power has some limits.
These days, crackpot media and politicians insist, despite the wealth of visual evidence, there is no violence being perpetrated at the LA insurrection or at similarly themed riots throughout leftist cities.
No less a genius than Maxine Waters noted no violence, because no one is being killed.
Again, let us consult the Oxford dictionary, which defines violence as physical force intended to HURT, DAMAGE OR KILL SOMEONE OR SOMETHING.
You burn a car, and certainly we’ve seen burning cars, that is violence. You deface buildings, yep, that’s violence. You pelt police or ICE personnel with rocks, water bottles and fireworks, that’s violence.
Apparently there is not much going on under the artificial hair of Maxine Waters.
You can’t prevent these vapid politicians and fake media types from continuing to delve into this playbook. You can refuse to accept it, tune them out and, more importantly, vote them out.
That’s the real deterrent to the propaganda they are spewing.
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