Scandinavia and the World
Scandinavia and the World

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Goodbye forever 21 1, 9:49pm

@xondk

This is in reply to @Rogers as well:

This is no coincident and it's nothing new.
It's intentional propaganda and it was if not invented so at least used for the first time to full effect in Nazi Germany. The Nazi minister of propaganda (yes, he was actually called that back then - "propaganda" was not understood as just lies back then) Joseph Goebbles wrote about this extensively in the diary he kept from the 30's all through the war.

The intentional misuse of words, to frame your opponent or the facts as something they clearly are NOT was such a typical part of Nazi propaganda that it was also picked up by writer Orson Wells in his "1984" (published in 1949) where his "newspeak" is based on this and the same tendency in Soviet Communism at the time. From Nazi Germany there is also the writing of professor of literature Victor Klemperer who also kept a diary during the war where he noted the gradual subversion of the German language under the Nazi's. He published a book on this in 1947, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTI_%E2%80%93_Lingua_Tertii_Imperii
for some examples of Nazi propaganda misuse of words.

(Note that the Nazis and the republicans under Bush used almost the exact same euphemism for torture - "intensified interrogation" vs. "enhanced interrogation")

So this is as I say nothing new and no coincidence. The American people is fed this propaganda by right-wing propaganda sources like Fox News, talk-radio and even more so Breitbart and other right-wing extremist websites. In UK it's the right-wing tabloids (some owned by Rupert Murdoch - just like Fox News is in the US) who spreads this propaganda and deliberately subverts the truth.
In Sweden we have Avpixlat and Nya Tider and I'm sure there are the same kind of right-wing hate sites in Danish to. They are all part of the same right-wing propaganda machine who are trying to portray their extremist agenda as something normal and non offensive. So they try to portray mainstream opinions and facts that have been accepted by everyone (except outright neo-Nazis) for decades as somehow extremely left-wing.

Just look back a few years and a lot of the things the right-wings say today was only said be outright neo-Nazis. But now these same talking points are pushed by regular right-wing parties.
And to defend the extreme policy's they are now pushing, they try to paint anyone protesting against this as extreme left-wing.
But the left hasn't changed position at all - it's the right who's gone far-right and accepted positions only neo-Nazis held a few years ago. But they need to pretend they have not changed and gone far of the right end of the political spectrum, so instead they try to misstate their opponents actual positions - or just spread ever more insane lies about them.

Just look at the amount of outright lies that where peddled against Obama during 8 years, of the lies about Clinton. Accusing her of completely insane thing like being part of a child sex-ring of worshipping Satan and insane stuff like that.
The right-wingers can't win a serious discussion on virtually any policy and they know it, so they fill their propaganda with lies and brand their opponents as basically Soviet-style communists, if not outright child-molesting Satanist's.
It would all be just laughably stupid if it wasn't for the fact that it works so well with so many ignorant voters all over the western world at the moment.

Here's another link with some more factual sources on how the subversion of language was integral to Nazi propaganda:
https://www.ushmm.org/research/research-in-collections/search-the-collections/bibliography/nazi-language-and-terminology