Oppositespeak


A handy guide to help you understand your cosmo-liberal interlocutor - in case you thought words were what they used to be...

Liberal = belonging to an ideology intolerant of incorrect speech

Tolerant = refusing to tolerate incorrect opinions; also: having the correct opinion, often referring in particular to automatically loving anything foreign

Inclusive = refusing to include people with incorrect opinions

Open-minded = refusing to consider incorrect opinions; also: having the correct opinion, often referring in particular to loving anything foreign

Narrow-minded = conversely: willing to consider all opinions; also: having come to an incorrect opinion

Extreme =  having come to the incorrect opinion, e.g. opposed to extreme immigration
[Note also "extremist" = a case needing to be conceptually separated from the group in order to uphold the concept of identicality of groups, e.g. "Islamic extremist" = not to be counted as a "real" Muslim]

Society = people in the same place, having ideally little or nothing (except geography) in common and no sense of a common identity separating them from the rest of the world, especially not in terms of heritage, ethnicity, or belonging

Nation = group of people affiliated to the same state, ideally having little or nothing (except geography) in common and no sense of a common identity separating them from the rest of the world, especially not in terms of heritage, ethnicity, or belonging

Internationalist = in favour of the populations of all places and states having little or nothing in common and no sense of a common identity separating them from the rest of the world, especially not in terms of heritage, ethnicity, or belonging; otherwise stated: opposed to all nations (in the oldspeak sense of the word 'nation')

Democracy = a system where people vote in order to decide how the country will be run; unless they vote incorrectly, in which case they can be asked again, or the seniormost judges can just make shit up

Ignorant = too well informed to consider all cultures, ethnicities and religions to be identical

"Not racist" = demanding special treatment for people whose race is not white; also: opposed to the composition of and group/organisation/population composed of white people; also: anti-white [e.g. anti-racist "I'd oppress white people" Zamzam Ibrahim]

Debate = a dialogue between a correct person and an incorrect person, where the latter is not permitted to say anything the correct person might not be willing to hear

Fascist Usage varies very widely, now generally indicates:  a supporter of liberal democracy with incorrect opinions


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