February 4, 2019
Leftism: High on Buzzwords, Low on Thought
By Bruce Walker
The left does not need to argue with conservatives and other normal people. This is because the left has co-opted language so that clear thinking is impossible. Buzzwords preclude whole serious thought and channel virtually all cognition along predictable and entirely theoretical, rather than empirical, lines.
While leftists can "think" only along these lines, the real danger is that conservatives accept these buzzwords as well, so conservatives also have shackled minds that rely, almost entirely, upon an entire vocabulary created by leftist totalitarianism. A few words and phrases help show how this works.
"Homophobia" is a rickety neologism intended to encompass virtually every variety of analysis of that leftist insistence that homosexuality and its offspring "transgender" and so forth have no problems. In fact, there are at least three different and usually conflicting approaches to this issue.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/leftism_high_on_buzzwords_low_on_thought.html#ixzz5ef8rGxyl
