A magnificent essay from David Solway on the utter perversion of the English language to service the left and political correctness.
I found myself nodding along the whole way, so you must read the whole thing.
This is a very brave and bold piece. Kudos to David Solway for his clarity, wisdom and forthright manner of laying out the facts in an irrefutable manner.
He says:
"Poor thinking corrupts language; slovenly language corrupts thinking—and
the inevitable result of these twin perversions is moral corruption and
political barbarism."
"...what should not cease to astonish is the extent to which the language
sickness has spread to the democratic West. Far from a mere aberration
or an occupational hazard, the Big Lie has been installed among us as
the primary form of political and cultural address along the entire
gamut of disinformation, from outright interment of fact and customizing
of inconvenient truths to unmitigated calumny and virulent libel. The
Western media and the “progressivist” left-liberal political class have,
over the years, incrementally adopted the discursive techniques of
totalitarian states and theocratic dispensations."
"One sees the neutralizing or flattening of language intended to mislead especially with regard to Islam. Muslim rapists and felons in the UK and Scandinavia are routinely
referred to as “Asians”—a demographic blend that serves as a linguistic
cowcatcher sweeping law-abiding Korean, Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese and
Filipino immigrants into its purview. The distinction between “Islamic”
and “Islamist” is another such evasion"
"It behooves us to get the language right. Are we so timorous that our
greatest fear is of contravening the detours of political correctness —
the technique of evasion — rather than of an adversary who aims to
destroy us, whether through terror or demography? I confess that I am
still hunting in vain for a credible definition of “Islamism” or for
that mysterious entity known as an “Islamist.”
