Lewis Carroll-like bastardization of the language

February 16, 2022. Do words have meaning? Or are words simply an attempt to control thought and to prescribe values? Or have we just allowed the Left to re-define words to promote their narrative with faux terms?

Lewis Carroll offered this possible origin of self-defined words:

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."

Anti-vaxxer, Islamaphopia, hate speech, anti-racist, Black Lives Matter are some of the key lies, disguised as woke talk, that come across more like malapropisms. In any case, just like gender-based pronoun "assigned" at birth, things aren't quite what the words say anymore. The woke speaker gets to choose his or her own vocabulary and definitions and to question same is definitive proof that you are a racist, much as the long-ago Loyola workshop leader who addressed my doubts about 'white privilege' by saying Etta my doubts were the proof that white privilege exists.

The media love calling people "anti-vaxxers,"while ignoring that those they try top smear are noting of the sort. They are anti-mandates, period. Many of them are "fully vaxxed," another example of a term with changing meaning from month to month. Why not call pro-abortion advocates "anti-lifers"?

Take "unconscious bias" or "systemic racism," also called "institutional racism." Institutions can't be racist, only people can. And while the LGBTQ community claims to be able to choose their identity, they are happy top black the BLM leaders who claim that racism are white supremacy are genetic characteristics of whites. Just look at Heather MacDonald's piece of woke running amok at the New York Metropolitan Art Museum.

"Anti-racism" is precious as it positions itself as the sole alternative mental state to "racism," absurdly claiming that you myst be for something unless you are against it. I may not care for pickles, but I am not anti-pickle, nor am I pro-pickle. There are wide arrears of relative indifference that lie between two extreme ends of a spectrum when it comes to such polarizing issues. If I am told that I must choose, do I love pickles, yes or no, my response would be "neither of the above."

A "phobia" used to represent a fear of something -- heights, water, insects, etc. -- yet today it translates as "hatred for" rather than "fear of". People who are skeptical of political and cultural elements of Islam are considered to hate rather than fear Islamic culture and politics, often ascribing this hatred to the Islamic religion. The truth is that much of what the media considers to be religious under Islamic culture is, in fact, political. Religion ends when the "religious" person uses his religion as a reason to kill other people.

Progressives want to create and demand new words of their choosing, adding new, idiosyncratic words and changing the meaning of long-established words. And this does not apply to slang, to idioms, or other expressions that surface, such as today saying that something is "sick," the slang meaning of sick is used for something that's “outstandingly or amazingly good or impressive.”