Words That Lie
Words have many meanings, and knowing their meanings is indispensable in any search for truth. More, some words have semi-secret, “coded” meanings, known only to the Illuminati of a cult. And while all words can be used to tell the truth or to lie, some words are themselves lies (one example is “homophobia:” unreasoning fear and moral disapproval are two very different things).
If we are to know our enemy, which on traditionalright.com is cultural Marxism, we have to learn what the words it commonly uses mean. Again, some of these words have both a common meaning, what they mean to you or me, and a coded meaning. In political and spiritual warfare it is just as important to break the enemy’s code as it is in warfare with guns.
Let us start with one of the cultural Marxists’ favorite words, “hate.” We all know what hate means. But most of us do not know what it means in the mouth of cultural Marxists. Again, to them, it has a coded meaning. What is it? Any defiance of cultural Marxism. Now, the cultural Marxists are themselves champion haters. They hate whites. They hate males and non-Feminist females. They hate Western culture and the Christian religion. In the end, they simply hate God. But in their lexicon, none of this counts as hate because it is coming from the left. Only the right can hate.
Another word that lies is “divisive.” Like “hate,” “divisive” means any rejection of cultural Marxism. The lie embedded in the word is that most people are cultural Marxists, so any dissent represents division. In fact, most people are not cultural Marxists and cultural Marxism itself fosters every division it can: sex, race, clase, etc., all with the goal of ripping society apart. Unlike the old economic Marxists in Moscow, cultural Marxists offer no positive goal; they are about “negation,” which is to say they are nihilists.
A new word that lies is “violence.” Everyone knows violence requires physical contact. But in the cultural Marxists’ mouths, it means anything that disturbs or upsets cultural Marxists. This word that lies is becoming common discourse on many university campuses.
Then we have the “ism” words: racism, sexism, classism, gourmetism (wanting your food to taste good), and so on. The coded meaning in these words is that the things themselves, e.g., race and sec, are just “constructs,” castles in the air with no foundation in reality. But we all know that’s can’t, to use Dr. Johnson’s favorite word. There are real differences among race and among ethnic groups within races, taken as wholes. Who can say with a straight face that there are no differences between, say, Swedes and Italians, or Russians and Irishmen? How many people, looking for amusement on a Saturday evening, go to a Russian bar? As to “sexism,” men and women are inherently different and their traditional roles reflect what we have learned over millennia about their inherent differences. The endless stream of movies and shows in which lovely, petite young women beat up big men are fantasy. And most men aren’t really keen on babies.
My answer when”thisist” or a “thatist” is that the name-calling is “ismism.” “Ismism” is a magical, totemic belief that realities some people don’t like can be made to disappear by calling them names ending in “ism.” Cultural Marxism is not unique in wanting to do away certain realities; all ideologies do that. But none before it tried to abolish realities so fundamental, such as that there are two sexes, which are physically determined at birth. One woman recently wrote that, when she was little, she told her mother she wanted to be a boy. Her mother replied, “kiss your elbow.” Go ahead, try it. You can’t.
All this mendacity with words traces back to Frankfurt School member Herbert Marcuse’s essay on “liberating tolerance.” Marcuse defined liberating tolerance as all movements and ideas coming from the right. Today’s cultural Marxists are carrying that into language itself, giving words new definitions that add up to left good, right bad. Conservatives need to see through what they are doing to words and expose it to all Americans. Sunlight turns cultural Marxism, like other trolls, to stone.