The left has been engaging in a campaign of hijacking language for a long time now. Words like racist, Nazi, Islamaphobe, homophobe have all been overused and diluted to the point where they have lost all meaning in modern discourse. So much so that I don’t think people really know what some of them even mean anymore. In fact, I know they don’t because they have been indoctrinated by leftists educators with the incorrect definitions of words. Let’s start with the word racist. Although it has lost much of its meaning, it is still a word that once invoked, shuts down all debate. No one wants to be called a racist and no matter how little evidence they have to support their claim, or how much evidence one has to refute it, the debate is forever framed in those terms.
The definition of racist is: “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.” Now, who among us has been advancing the narrative that race is the most important factor in determining someone’s value, credibility or standing to speak on certain issues? Not conservatives; that is exclusively the domain of the leftist political class. In this latest episode, the left has characterized a series of tweets by the president as racist. They find it exceedingly easy to label anything with which they disagree as racist. In fact, it is necessary for them to be able to advance their agenda. In order to buy into it, one must be either lazy, unwilling to think critically, lack the ability to do so or all of the above.
The same case can be made for all of the pejoratives I listed earlier. Nazi has been a go-to for the left for decades. The rise of Antifa and the left’s defense of them illustrates just how un-self-aware they are. Further, once they labeled Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager as Nazis, two very religious Jews, that word lost all meaning and the left lost all credibility; to the extent that they had any to begin with. Islamophobe? Well, what is a phobia? Phobia is defined as: “an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation”. The explicit, stated goal of ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas and all of the rest of them is to wipe out Western civilization and establish a worldwide caliphate. They flew planes into buildings and have committed numerous deadly acts of terror around the world. Is it really inexplicable or unreasonable that someone would have some aversion to Islam? Homophobe? I see no evidence that discrimination against gays or lesbians is even a thing anymore. The issue is that trans people and those who would identify as one of the other 673 genders that they made up have appropriated a legitimate cause in gay rights – back when it was just LGB. Then it became LGBT. Now it’s LGBTQAAIP2SLMNOPXYZ. Next, they will be making up new letters to tack on to the end of that acronym. Ze and Zir? Come on, new letters are not that much of a stretch.
But it’s not just words that they make up or overuse, but they seek to redefine them as well. Take for example “Assault Rifle”. The term was made up in 1994 when they banned certain weapons by labeling them as Assault Rifles. Illegal aliens are now undocumented immigrants. Alien is a legal term of art used to describe someone who was not born in the United States. Fascism is no longer a political philosophy that exercises autocratic or dictatorial control, rather any conservative principle that challenges the left’s ideology. A fetus is no longer an unborn baby, but a clump of cells or a parasite. That is just a small sampling. And of course, we’ve already been over the word racist.
Donald Trump is not a racist. His administration has presided over the best economy this country has seen since the Reagan era. Some say it’s even better than that. I don’t know if I’d go that far, but it’s worth looking at the numbers to see if that is in fact true. Nevertheless, President Trump has presided over the lowest unemployment rate for black and Hispanic people ever since they started tracking those numbers. Would a racist have given that vile human being Omorosa jobs within his organization and at the White House even though she never won the apprentice? Not a chance. And let’s be honest, Does anyone think that Omorosa would let even a hint of racism slide? Of course not. Prominent businessmen like the founder of BET, Bob Johnson doesn’t think that President Trump is not a racist. Dr. Alveda King doesn’t think that President Trump is a racist. Jim Brown, a famous civil rights figure doesn’t think he’s a racist. Trump famously socialized with people like Don King, Muhammad Ali, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson. A racist could fake the funk for that long. There is no way he could have enjoyed the level of success he achieved during that time in New York City if he were a racist. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would have seen to that. Jackson would have led a march on Trump tower and Sharpton would have gone all Freddy’s Fashion Mart at Trump Palace.
The left uses their manipulation of the language in order to perpetuate the us against them, class warfare that has led us to the current state of division in which we as a country now find ourselves. We cannot allow this to continue.