Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Control the language, control the narrative

Daniel Hannan provides a helpful political lexicon to start the new year.

H/T: Steven Hayward at Powerline

2 comments:

RebeccaH said...

During my years at my university, "diversity" came to mean "more black people" and nothing else. We had few Hispanics then (Ohio, you know), but large numbers of Indians, Pakistanis, Chinese, Arabs, and Koreans. That, apparently, doesn't count as "diversity".

bruce said...

There used to be these people going round with slogans bracketed 'an idea whose time has come'.

It was always apparent it was just talk, that they believed just talking was enough to 'end world hunger':

https://archive.org/details/NothingIsSoPowerfualAsAnIdeaWhoseTimeHasCome-TheHungerProject

My favourite slogan was from Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz: 'What are words worth?'