Marxists are always aggressive in propagandizing, but simultaneously terrified that the lumpenproletariat will discover the truth and use words to expose the lies. That’s why Marxists like modern Democrats are so desperate to censor anything and everyone not perfectly in line with their views.
Literacy often increases in countries where Communists take over, but only so that the people can be made to read endless state propaganda. The same dictators who brag about literacy rates will hunt down any citizen who dares to state facts or express opinions that are at variance with state dogma. It is disturbing to see how the Democrat Party — always throughout history inclined toward authoritarianism — has become so thoroughly Communist, especially with social media censorship, removal of all classic literature and honest biology from schools, and arrests of political opponents.
Democrats weaponize words by rewriting history, inventing new words, and defining others. “Gay” just means “happy,” but Dems redefined it as “homosexual” because they knew — as has now occurred — people would develop a more positive view of sexual perversion by using that word. Dudes in dresses are “women,” dismembering unborn babies is “healthcare,” illegal immigrants are “undocumented workers,” fiery riots are “mostly peaceful protests,” and Islamic terrorists are “freedom fighters.” The list could go on. It’s vital we not fall for the lies and use their terminology.
Essential to the successful weaponization of words is intimidation of the population, which is done partly by censorship and partly by making faithful cult followers afraid of using certain words. Leftists have been conditioned to be afraid of “misgendering,” (i.e., using correct pronouns versus pronouns invented by the mentally ill individual), to treat it as “literal genocide.” They have also been conditioned to believe that even historical documents and books accurately reporting the use of racist terminology from former eras are, simply by quoting individuals from history, racist as well. Mark Twain’s and Harper Lee’s magnificent novels, exposing the ugliness of slavery and racism in the South are, instead of being praised for undermining racism, wrongly labeled as racist.
Of course, the standard is always unfair. Rap artists can throw around the n-word constantly without suffering any loss of prestige. I know a school where Hispanic kids were punished for using the n-word, but not black students, encouraging bad blood between children of different ethnicities. But the point from the Marxists’ perspective is not to be consistent or rational, but to make people afraid and angry all the time. That’s why a Washington teacher was just fired after reading aloud to students from a novel they were assigned to read for class, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which accurately portrays early 20th century Southerners — black and white — saying “n****r.”Related: Washington Teacher Was Fired for Reading Aloud From Classic Novel
Matthew Mastronardi believed he had found a teaching moment when students in his class said they were told not to read the n-word aloud while reading from “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The teacher read a passage aloud with the word in it, without realizing he was being recorded, and ended up losing his job over it. Mastronardi emphasized in his rebuttal after refusing to be coerced into resigning that words “should not be skipped over simply because they make us uncomfortable." It is “requisite for mature members of society” to be able to cope with opinions and cultures that do not coincide exactly with their own. If only we had the attitude of Lt. Uhura in Star Trek, who told a time-traveling Abraham Lincoln that she did not fear words.But the woke fools in charge of the school and school district were so terrified of a word that was once used constantly by both black and white people, a word used specifically in a historical context, that they chose to fire Mastronardi rather than thank him for challenging his students. It is vital that the children go through life believing that words are deadly, and they cannot question the authorities, or they just might realize that the Marxist authorities are lying to them.
