I'm hoping this is satire.

[Deleted]

12 Phrases Progressives Need To Ditch
They are:
(1). Big Business
(2). Entitlements
(3). Free Market Capitalism
(4). Government Spending
(5) Gay Marriage/Same Sex Marriage
(6). Gun Control
(7). Homophobic
(8). Illegal Aliens
(9). Pro-Life
(10). Right-To-Work
(11). The Environment
(12). Welfare

The whole point behind this is not to reform progressive ideology but rather to define it in different terms as if that would make a difference.  In short, the idea is to insult the intelligence of people that don't agree with them by playing word games.  Or it is satire.  I'm hoping for the latter.

[Moses]

Nov 11, 2013 12:54:10 GMT -5 @semi said:

12 Phrases Progressives Need To Ditch
They are:
(1). Big Business
(2). Entitlements
(3). Free Market Capitalism
(4). Government Spending
(5) Gay Marriage/Same Sex Marriage
(6). Gun Control
(7). Homophobic
(8). Illegal Aliens
(9). Pro-Life
(10). Right-To-Work
(11). The Environment
(12). Welfare

The whole point behind this is not to reform progressive ideology but rather to define it in different terms as if that would make a difference.  In short, the idea is to insult the intelligence of people that don't agree with them by playing word games.  Or it is satire.  I'm hoping for the latter.

Where do you dig up this stuff?
I'll bet you 99% of Americans don't worry about such details. Just your usual political junkies

[drjohnnyfever]

Nov 11, 2013 12:54:10 GMT -5 @semi said:

12 Phrases Progressives Need To Ditch
They are:
(1). Big Business
(2). Entitlements
(3). Free Market Capitalism
(4). Government Spending
(5) Gay Marriage/Same Sex Marriage
(6). Gun Control
(7). Homophobic
(8). Illegal Aliens
(9). Pro-Life
(10). Right-To-Work
(11). The Environment
(12). Welfare

The whole point behind this is not to reform progressive ideology but rather to define it in different terms as if that would make a difference.  In short, the idea is to insult the intelligence of people that don't agree with them by playing word games.  Or it is satire.  I'm hoping for the latter.

Keep hoping...after checking out the website and author it appears to be serious:

>Big Business/Unelected government
>Entitlements/earned benefits

etc, etc

When you're losing the argument-play at semantics.

[Evil Yoda]

The food constituent "High Fructose Corn Syrup" has gotten a bad rap lately; it has been linked (albeit tenuously) with Type II diabetes. People are demanding foods without it, and makers have complied. That has caused the corn agribusiness to lose sales. Their response has been to petition the FDA for the right to call their product "corn sugar".

So, yes, sometimes people try to wash the stink off a concept or thing by renaming it. Sometimes the stink is legitimate (we remember what black people and the disabled and the mentally challenged and senior citizens were once called, right) - and sometimes it is just a matter of perspective. The article suggests phrases designed to make progressive concepts seem palatable because the writer wants them to be palatable. And, let's face it, many people are dumb enough to fall for tricks like this.

[Deleted]

Nov 11, 2013 12:54:10 GMT -5 @semi said:

12 Phrases Progressives Need To Ditch
They are:
(1). Big Business
(2). Entitlements
(3). Free Market Capitalism
(4). Government Spending
(5) Gay Marriage/Same Sex Marriage
(6). Gun Control
(7). Homophobic
(8). Illegal Aliens
(9). Pro-Life
(10). Right-To-Work
(11). The Environment
(12). Welfare

The whole point behind this is not to reform progressive ideology but rather to define it in different terms as if that would make a difference.  In short, the idea is to insult the intelligence of people that don't agree with them by playing word games.  Or it is satire.  I'm hoping for the latter.

Newspeak. Get with it- or Big Brother will get you. Long live Oceania!!!!!

[r686st]

He who controls the language controls the debate.

[Deleted]

Nov 12, 2013 2:27:42 GMT -5 r686st said:

He who controls the language controls the debate.

Not really.  It only takes one person being honest to point out that this falls under the emperor having no clothes.  A bait and switch is no way to control a debate.