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:: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 ::
Spinspeak: The Language of Choice of the “Easily Offended”
Why does the liberal mind have such an affinity for spinspeak?
Columnist Dennis Prager in describing “Blue America: The Land of the Easily Offended” sheds much light on the answer. Prager says:
With the acknowledgment that there are many individual exceptions, a major defining characteristic of modern-day liberalism is the ease with which liberals take offense personally and/or on behalf of others.
Liberals regularly portray as offended women, African Americans, Jews, American Indians, gays and every other group liberals declare a minority, i.e., any group that votes Democrat -- no group that votes Republican, such as Mormons, Cuban Americans and Vietnamese Americans, is considered a "minority." All other groups are constantly warned that almost anything they say that is not patronizing of those groups is offensive (and therefore subject to litigation).
The emotion-laden mindset of the easily offended thrives on such spindoc offerings as the vocabulary of political correctness, mushmundspeak, psychobabble and gooeytalk.
Isolated by spinspeak from reality, the easily offended wander in the Garden of Corrupted Language. Eating from the Tree of Facts is unthinkable. And all commentary no matter how expert is taken personally.
:: James Baar 12/07/2004 03:05:00 PM [+] ::
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