by Corey Miltimore
My recent posting on the need for liberals to call partial-birth abortion anything other than partial-birth abortion generated interesting feedback. Rather than re-argue the partial-birth abortion debate, the point was to emphasize the fact that the Left finds it necessary to cloak its true beliefs, goals, and philosophy in euphemisms.
The penchant for words that deflect and obscure is but one more example of what the modern Left has in common with its Bolshevik antecedents. Soviet Russia was so awash in such terms that it brought language to the point of meaninglessness. (Orwell satirized the trend with special effectiveness in 1984.)
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