Thursday, June 22, 2006

ORWELLIAN DOUBLE SPEAK

THE USE OF THE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN WORD IS OFTEN DELIBERATELY MISREPRESENTED. PERFECT EXAMPLE S ARE FOUND IN TWO PROMINENT SOURCES. THE ADVERTISEMENTS SEEN TODAY ON TELEVISION ARE OFTEN GUILTY OF SEMANTIC MISREPRESENTATION TO SELL A POSSIBLY USELESS PRODUCT. THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA USES OUTRIGHT FALSEHOODS TO DENIGRATE THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION IN WASHINGTON, AND LEAST I FORGET THERE ARE THE POLITICIANS WHO WOULDN'T KNOW THE TRUTH IF IT BIT THEM ON THE BUTT! XXX THE INTERNET THESARUS DEFINES "FAG" AS A SHAFT, END STUMP TAIL OR TIP. ONLY THE ENCYCLOPEDIA WHICH INITALLY REFERS TO FAG AS A TEDIOUS WORK, DRUDGERY OR A CIGARETTE DOES REFER AS A POSTSCRIPT THAT USED AS A OFFENSIVE SLANG WORD IT IS" A TERM FOR A HOMOSEXUAL MAN USED IN A DISRESPECTFUL WAY". NO WHERE CAN I FIND THE HYPERBOLY USED IN THE ARTICLE ,SUPPORTING THE CHARGE THAT IT IS HATE SPEECH AS DESCRIBED IN MR. COOKS ARTICLE. THE MOST RECENT EXAMPLE OF WRITTEN WORDS USED TO DISTORT FACTS INTO A "PAPER TIGER"IS THE DIATRIBE BY MSNBC CONTRIBUTING EDITOR AND CHICAGO SUN TIME COLUMNIST BOB COOKS ARTICLE CONDEMING WHITE SOX BASEBALL MANAGER OZZIE GUILLEN FOR CALLING SPORTS WRITER JAY MARIOTTI A "FAG"! MARRIOTTI IS AN OPENLY HOMOSEXUAL PERSON IN THE FIRST PLACE WHICH PLACES HIM IN A CLASS OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE THEN THE REST OF US "STRAIGHTS". THE WORD WAS SPOKEN NOT DURING AN INTERVIEW, BUT IN A DUGOUT AT THE BALLPARK . WHICH TO MY WAY OF THINKING IS HIS HOME GROUND. XXX NOT ONLY IS MR. COOK CONDEMING MR. GUILLENS INSENSITIVITY TO HOMOSEXUALS. HE IS CALLING ON THE LEADERSHIP OF THE BASEBALL LEAGUE TO SEVERELY PUNISH GUILLEN. HE CALLS THE WORDS SPOKEN, "INFLAMMATORY HATE SPEECH", AND SAYS GUILLEN FAILS TO "UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF HOMOSEXUALITY". XXX IT SEEMS TO ME THAT ANYONE WITH A SIXTH GRADE EDUCATION KNOWS WHAT MAKES HOMOSEXUALS DIFFERENT THAN THE REST OF US IS THEY LOVE TO HAVE SEX WITH MEN. YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE "HATE IN YOUR HEART" TO ABHORE THIS LIFE STYLE. XXX I BELIEVE THE WAY EACH INDIVIDUL LEADS HIS OR HER LIFE IS GUARENTEED BY OUR CONTITUTION AS LONG AS IT IS NOT UNLAWFUL. BUT IF IT WALKS LIKE A DUCK AND QUACKS LIKE A DUCK IT STILL IS A DUCK. MR GIULLEN USE OF THE WORD "FAG" IS DISPESPECTUL OF ANOTHER MANS FEELINGS, BUT IN NO WAY IS IT "HATE SPEECH"! WHEN WILL THE MINORITY GROUPS REALIZE THAT THEY ARE LUCKY TO LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE THEIR "DIFFERENT" LFESTYLE IS NOT ONLY TOLERATED BUT PROTECTED . IT IS THE SPECIAL TREATMENT THAT GROUPS LIKE GAYS WANT THAT BAFFLES ME. HIS ARTICLE SEEMS MORE LIKE HATE SPEECH THAN WHAT GUILLEN SAID IN THE CONFINES OF HIS DOUGOUT!