Sunday, January 16, 2011

Who Are They Whistling To?

Between the "blood libel" charge levied by the Wall Street Journal, which was famously plagiarized taken up by Palin, and the "pogrom" charge bruited about by the Washington Times, I am beginning to wonder this:

Is the pseudo-intellectual theft of the terms of Jewish persecution a new dogwhistle by the Christian Talibanistas?

If so, what is the message that they are tooting to each other?

(As to the offensiveness of the Christian Taliban co-opting the terms which, up to now, described acts of persecution and murder against Jews by Christians, that is so self-evident that I do not feel the need to expound on it here.)
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5 comments:

  1. John Milton1/16/2011 10:02 AM

    Did you get the memo about a "more civil tone?"

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  2. Comrade Misfit1/16/2011 4:14 PM

    Really? You think that is "uncivil"?

    Not hardly, and not compared to the hate-filled rhetoric of Wingnut Radio/TV.

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  3. Anonymous1/16/2011 9:32 PM

    I don't know if the attempt to co-opt the term is a signal among the Xian Taliban, but it would certainly fit with their bizarre theological mythologies.

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  4. XR650L_Dave1/17/2011 10:05 AM

    "Control the language and you control the thoughts"

    Were one sufficiently cynical, one could see it as a long term strategy to paint the right as the victims in need of protection while cleverly eroding the meanings of these terms so that past lessons will be lost, paving a path back to the ways that led to these activities.

    Since the days of newtie and his list of terms to use to vilify the enemy (anyone who disagrees with the right), I don't think there is any terminology used on the right that isn't sanctioned.


    Dave

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  5. BadTux1/17/2011 11:57 AM

    Besides, most of us don't give a fuck about a "more civil tone". We just want the sick fuckers to quit threatening to kill everybody who doesn't agree with their deranged agenda of ignorance, violence, and hate.

    - Badtux the Rude Penguin

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