February 06, 2002
From the desk of Jane Galt:Jonah Goldberg has a terrific
Jonah Goldberg has a terrific article on the debasement of the English language by PoMo and other academic fads. He points out that even in 1946, Orwell noted that 'Fascist' had become a catchphrase for "people I don't like". For amusement, try this parlor game I developed in college:
1) Find a liberal
2) Get him to say someone is a 'fascist'
3) Then say, "Other than one fascist's regimes penchant for genocide, what specifically do you have against fascism?"
Over 10 years, and I have yet to meet one who has any idea what Fascism actually is.
This is why you will notice that I am agitating for the total elimination of the use of 'Taliban', 'Nazi', or 'Stalinist' to describe anyone except"
a) Members of the Taliban
b) Members of the Nazi party
c) People who subscribe to the particular variant of Marxism-Leninism elucidated (insofar as he could be said to be lucid) by Josef Stalin.
Probably I am a violator on at least one count. But I hereby vow to go, and sin no more.
Posted by Jane Galt at February 6, 2002 06:47 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound links