Have you noticed how terms have been/are being used for current political/cultural purposes? Here are a few with their general original meaning and their current use:
Fascism then: political parties beginning in the 1920s based in extreme nationalism, undergirded by increasing limits on freedoms, rights, and safeguard of individual liberties, with increasing levels of totalitarian control of media, expression, and then, ultimately, thought.
Fascism now: any Republican the Democrats oppose (see presidential election campaigns over the last 20-40 years). Even when Republicans support freedom of speech and Democrats shut or shout it down.
Racism then: use of government and majority pressure to deny rights, liberties, freedoms to some people based on their race. Treating some people as inferior and then denying them opportunities and equal treatment because of their race.
Racism now: presumed of all white people. Even by multimillionaires (see Oprah Winfrey, Lebron James, etc.). Whatever gains a “minority” an advantage. Even fake, staged “attacks” (see Juicy, Lebron, cadet at the Air Force Academy, football player in Atlanta) still treated as true even after being proven false.
These are first thoughts. More to follow. Consider the appropriation of terms, so often terms of bad, evil, horror…and how they’re used by liberal/progressives today, so casually, so meaninglessly. Immediate political, cultural gain…at the cost of making the terms meaningless. What will that cost our society over the coming years?
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