May 18, 2025
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Today's Doonesbury cartoon.
The dawn of Newspeak is on the rise...
And you claim you are for "free speech"...
It's fascism, plain and simple.
Just in case you don't want to read the article. These are the words Trump has forbidden:
activism
activists
advocacy
advocate
advocates
barrier
barriers
biased
biased toward
biases
biases towards
bipoc
black and latinx
community diversity
community equity
cultural differences
cultural heritage
culturally responsive
disabilities
disability
discriminated
discrimination
discriminatory
diverse backgrounds
diverse communities
diverse community
diverse group
diverse groups
diversified
diversify
diversifying
diversity and inclusion
diversity equity
enhance the diversity
enhancing diversity
equal opportunity
equality
equitable
equity
ethnicity
excluded
female
females
fostering inclusivity
gender
gender diversity
genders
hate speech
excluded
female
females
fostering inclusivity
gender
gender diversity
genders
hate speech
hispanic minority
historically
implicit bias
implicit biases
inclusion
inclusive
inclusiveness
inclusivity
increase diversity
increase the diversity
indigenous community
inequalities
inequality
inequitable
inequities
institutional
Igbt
marginalize
marginalized
minorities
minority
multicultural
polarization
political
prejudice
privileges
promoting diversity
race and ethnicity
racial
racial diversity
racial inequality
racial justice
racially
racism
sense of belonging
sexual preferences
social justice
sociocultural
socioeconomic
status
stereotypes
systemic
trauma
under appreciated
under represented
under served
underrepresentation
underrepresented
underserved
undervalued
victim
women
women and underrepresented
Don't believe me? Here's more about it.
Joseph J. Amon Nearly 60 years ago the comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested for saying “forbidden” words in his stand-up show.[1] A few years l
Enjoy!
One time I heard a dude online compare new and obscure LGBT terminology to newspeak. This I think is one of the biggest examples I have seen of people with their whole chest ignoring the basic themes of 1984.
In 1984 the whole point of newspeak was that it shrinks. Ideas that could once be communicated now cannot. Everything is simplified as much as possible. You cannot explain complicated ideas of freedom or equality because the words no longer exist, or they don’t mean what they once did.
More specifically, there is canonically no word for “gay” in 1984. There are only two words for the entire spectrum of sexuality. “goodsex” and “sexcrime”. If you’re gay it’s the exact same as being a pedophile. And those are is the exact same as cheating on your wife, which is the exact same daring to fuck your wife just because you feel like it. Which is no different than literally any sex act that might offend big brother.
Do you see what’s happening? In 1984 can no longer ask someone of the same sex to fuck you because the word for gay sex is the exact same as the word for pedophile. And you can’t come out as gay because all you can say is that you did a criminal sex act, which means you cannot make a case for your rights either.
Inventing made up words to describe obscure things that previously lacked words would literally be a perfect remedy to newspeak. This language would counter every barrier to communicating the necessary concepts. Because it’s what literally every normal non-dystopian language does.
It's gone. The far left is now gaslighting itself. It's over. We're doomed...
Women in Iran suffer greatly. They do not have anything approaching the freedom of women in the west. Women can be and have been imprisoned for so much as failing to wear a hijab. Women are restricted in their movements. They have zero equality with men.
...at the same time the gaslighting bastard who invented this meme is claiming that 84% of American woman are on OnlyFans!
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, YOU KNOW THAT'S NOT TRUE!
Seriously? And the far left is too stupid to even question that "Fact," much less dismiss it as idiocy?
The literacy rates are made up as well. They're a lie. According to Google A.I. Iranian woman have a literacy rate of 84 to 87%.
Wait. Let's cut this short: It's all made up. They really are gaslighting you. The far left is genuinely taking you for a fool.
Be mad. Get angry. They are manipulating you.
"When the truth is your enemy, switch sides."
You're on the wrong side. You're on the side that truly believes you will turn on them if they tell you the truth, so they lie to you and gaslight you... manipulate you.
newspeak in George Orwell's 1984 and the closed-loop repetitiveness of vocabulary used in AI "writing"
In a March executive order titled “RESTORING TRUTH AND SANITY TO AMERICAN HISTORY,” Trump declared that “over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.” Orwell could not have said it better himself. Because of course Trump is doing precisely what he accuses his opponents of doing: replacing facts with ideology. -- John Biewen, Making Ignorance Sacred Again