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Their regime held power through mind control — they had a “Ministry of Truth” for perverting language & manipulating facts, while their “Thought Police” enforced ideological purity and suppressed dissent.

Nineteen Eighty-Four: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

39 years later comes a clique of theocratic extremists in the U.S. using Orwellian manipulation in its crusade to take control over every woman’s personal reproductive rights.
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#theocracy #extremism #WeaponizationOfLanguage

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* having seized Supreme Court & Republican Party, autocrats now demanding Orwellian state & national lawmakers enforce a total ban on abortions
* to their amazement the majority of Americans — incl. some Republican voters — think abortion ought to be generally available

Today’s Orwellian newspeakers will just the word “ban” f. PR campaigns.
The harsh abortion ban has magically morphed linguistically into a “pro-life plan.”

#neofascism #WeaponizationOfLanguage #GOP #abortion

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Comment: the weaponization of language is a long-established, evolved, and battle-hardened wedge tactic in the far-right / Republican Party / Christian Right movements. See (e.g.) the GOPAC section here:

https://persagen.com/docs/transgender_bathroom_meme.html#gopac_memo_of_1990

#linguistics #WeaponizedLanguage #GOPAC #NewtGingrich #AntiabortionMovement #DiscoveryInstitute #RepublicanParty #WedgeTactics #WedgeStrategies #lgbt #homophobia #transphobia #ChristianRight #FarRight #CultureWars #populism

Addendum 1

Donald Trump’s Use of Language
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/14/donald-trumps-original-use-of-language

* Trump’s rhetoric caused grievous harm to language, civil political discourse
* linguist, UC-Berkeley professor emeritus George Lakoff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakoff):

"Trump knows how to use language very effectively ... His tweets fall into 4 categories."

1. preemptively frame something
2. divert attention/shift blame
3. trial balloon something really outrageous, see reaction
4. use of psychology

#Trump #rhetoric #CultureWars

Addendum 2

Not just Ohio: Biased language is hot new tactic to thwart ballot measures
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/09/01/not-just-ohio-biased-language-is-the-hot-new-tactic-to-thwart-ballot-measures

* abortion-rights supporters filed a lawsuit against what “deceptive” ballot language produced by Ohio officials for Ohio’s referendum on issue

#GOP #WeaponizedLanguage #CultureWars #rhetoric #GOPmenace #neofascism #democracy #ElectoralFraud #ChristianRight

Addendum 3

Weaponization of language
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110781703591249377

Comment: the weaponization of language is a long-established, evolved, and battle-hardened wedge tactic in the far-right / Republican Party / Christian Right movements.

See (e.g.) the GOPAC section here:
https://persagen.com/docs/transgender_bathroom_meme.html#gopac_memo_of_1990

#neofascism #GOP #GOPAC #NewtGingrich #DiscoveryInstitute #RepublicanParty #WedgeTactics #WedgeStrategies #rhetoric #homophobia #transphobia #ChristianRight #FarRight #CultureWars #populism #neoconservatism