Newspeak/Quotes
Do not allow others to dictate the debate by injecting their own politically correct language like: higher order thinking skills, site-based management or gender norming. It's a smokescreen. Insist on using plain English in your debates. If your school is producing stupid children -- say so.
—Tom DeWeese, American education activist.
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Old habits, unrelated to sustainable development, can be eradicated only if replaced with something else. Therefore, real social and civil consciousness must be replaced by “civic competence”; authentic relations between sexes by sustainable equality; educated society by “knowledge-based society”, etc. The popular consent is affirmed by accepting the new rules and, above all, new language. If you find yourself irritated by obligation to apply exclusively female gender pronouns in academic texts or by replacing history by “herstory”, rest assured that your sentiment is well founded and in fact deadly serious. — Kali Tribune English, Agenda 21: An Introduction
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The utilitarians have constructed an artificial language in which it is impossible to express such concepts “the rule of law”, “natural rights”, or any idea or fact that would reject the limitless, absolute, lawless and capricious power of the state, and they seek to impose that language on the world. —James A. Donald, Natural Law and Natural Rights
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Generally speaking, words like 'agent of,' 'Democracy,' 'Freedom,' etc. meant something quite different in Party usage from what they meant in general usage; and as, furthermore, even their Party meaning changed with each shift of the line, our polemical methods became rather like the croquet game of the Queen of Hearts, in which the hoops moved about the field and the balls were live hedgehogs. With this difference, that when a player missed his turn and the Queen shouted 'Off with his head,' the order was executed in earnest. To survive, we all had to become virtuosos of Wonderland croquet. —The God That Failed by Arthur Koestler
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The key to power in the Fourth Republic is that no one who has power wants anyone to think of them as having power. For example, in the traditional iron triangle, legislators do not have power. They are just expressing the will of the people. Civil servants do not have power. They are just making public policy. Lobbyists do not have power. They are just communicating their concerns. —The iron polygon: power in the United States by Mencius Moldbug
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In the case of Zimbabwe, however, this word seems to have changed strangely and taken on an almost opposite meaning. [...] So, strangely enough, the country now known as Zimbabwe declared independence in 1965, much as the US declared independence in 1776. The former, however, was not genuine independence, but rather illegal independence. In order to gain genuine, legal independence, the country now known as Zimbabwe had to first revert to British control, i.e., surrender its illegal independence. Are you feeling confused yet? —An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives by Mencius Moldbug
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The first thing we notice about Rawls is the title of his famous book, A Theory of Justice. As I’ve mentioned before, this is not just hubristic, but actively Orwellian. For about the last 2500 years, the word justice and its various Indo-European predecessors have meant “the accurate execution of the law.” Rawls is no more interested in law than I am in dressage, and when he redefines the word justice to mean, effectively, righteousness, one notes with some dismay that he is confiscating a noun with no existing synonyms. But perhaps this was the publisher’s decision—maybe A Theory of Righteousness just wouldn’t have moved as well. —The Rawlsian god: cryptocalvinism in action by Mencius Moldbug
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