I’ve been railing (wailing?) for a while about how the Left is perverting our language right out from underneath our lips. Like Transgender – a word of the Left. We should be calling it by its actual name ALL the time: gender dysphoria.
Reproductive health, body autonomy, womens’ health – all euphemisms for the same thing: abortion. Social Justice, the phrase that covers almost anything the Left wants, really means SHUT UP and WE’RE GOING TO TRANSFORM YOUR WORLD WITHOUT YOU is rivaled only by “assault weapon” which is being morphed to describe any firearm that has a trigger and fires a round down range (even revolvers!).
So when I saw this, I went “WHY didn’t I think of this before now?” along with some more euphemisms that the Left is using in which we IMMEDIATELY need to call them out on (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Stop Calling It A Sanctuary City – It’s An Aiding and Abetting Criminals City
Remember when words mattered? You know what I am talking about! When words had a meaning before they are artificially softened. The days before taxes were called revenue enhancements, before government spending of our hard-earned money was called investments, or when there were terrorists instead of militants…Of course, there is also the recent silly transition from illegal Alien to undocumented Alien.
Back then, words mattered.
Or undocumented worker. Each is meant as deflection. Each is meant to make you, like what a magician does, look the other way and change your thought pattern. Each is done to better align what is actually being done (or going to be done) to you – and make you go “oh, ok, that’s fine”. That’s the intent – to shade or hide the truth. To change your thought pattern about a given issue or topic. They hate you using “abortion” because it DOES mean a person is about to be killed, thus the “womens’ health” schtick; who can be against healthcare for women, right? The fact that a new life is about to be snuffed out doesn’t even passing notation in that kind of terminology. You don’t even THINK of a baby in this scenario.
And that’s the point. Like this:
Another one of those new-fangled, softened-terms is sanctuary city. That particular term didn’t replace another one like “undocumented alien.” It’s a relatively new term because municipalities used to keep criminal Illegal aliens under lock and key until the feds could come to pick them up. They would let the feds know when a local criminal sentence was going to end and the feds would be able to grab them to serve their federal sentence or if there was no federal sentence, send them back to their home country.
Toda cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, NY, Seattle, and others don’t allow their law enforcement to cooperate with ICE and allow illegal aliens, even the criminal ones to go free and back into the general population. Those municipalities call themselves “sanctuary cities.” But they aren’t providing Sanctuary they are aiding and abetting criminals. In many cases, violent criminals, and allowing them roam free and to hurt their citizens. Last month a criminal illegal alien killed an elderly woman in NYC.
It is a way to suspend The Rule of Law in order to advance the Left’s ideology that because WE AMERICANS are the oppressors of those all over the world, especially from South America, the oppressed should be lifted up at the rest of us. To overcome that “oppression” (yet another euphemism), those illegals should get a pass – over and over and over again. The crimes they commit? Well, you can’t provide a utopia for those illegal aliens without them breaking a few American humans eggs to make their omelette, right?
Now, there is a line going around the Right that says “Well, the Left has set the new Rules – we’re just playing around”. So, if the Left has Sanctuary Cities / States for illegal aliens, then we’ll just do something like that but for one of OUR issues, right? Thus, Sanctuary Counties for the Second Amendment. Now, you can argue that while illegal alien Sanctuaries are just breaking Federal immigration law but 2A Sanctuaries are PROTECTING a Constitutional Right, laws are being broken on both sides.
Choose your poison.
It is the notion of “Sanctuary” used for a political agenda that is the bad side of this. It is taking a word and bending it all out of shape to serve a purpose other than just to describe something. This process is to weaponize, to make a spear point, of words that we normally think of as being benign or neutral. Most of us continue to think they are.
Those perverting them just smile – just like the magician that has, once again, pulled the wool over your eyes to give you a result you were not expecting.
Exactly what the Left is trying to do. Beware the glint in their eye…
(H/T: The Lid via Instapundit)
