RE: Political code words

Bluestem Associates (bluestem@webserf.net)
Thu, 02 Sep 1999 23:58:29 +0100

Was it not Lenin who said "If you control the terminology, you control
the debate." (approximate quote)?

Thus it is that you get Rind and other NAMBLA types attempting to
define child sexual abuse as "inter-generational sex," and outfits
such as Monsanto attempting to co-opt sustainable as being "no-till."
When Canadians or Europeans help their farmers it's "subsidies," and
when Americans help theirs it's "emergency aid."

Bull-crumble. As Vaclav Havel so aptly put it, "Restore the real
meaning of words, to live in truth."

Bart

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