One of the most effective things that Marxists do is to commandeer language and steer it toward revolutionary goals. By their language, you will know them – but don’t give them the time of day.
Given the level of insanity erupting at all levels in America, it wasn’t really a shock when the huge, multinational corporation Unilever announced in early March that it was pulling the word “normal” from at least half of its products.
No more soap for “normal skin care,” or shampoo for “normal hair.” It’s offensive.
A global study by Unilever found that the word “normal” made 56 percent of the respondents feel excluded and that 70 percent felt that using the word on packaging has a negative impact on people. So, “normal” has to go.
Unilever has 400 brands in 190 countries and claims 2.5 billion customers. The company’s beauty and personal product lines include Dove, Lifebuoy, Axe, Aviance and Brut. It owns food giants Continental, Hellmann’s, Breyers, Lipton, Knorr, and Pure Leaf Tea. Also, Ben & Jerry’s. Could it be that the Vermont-based ice cream company’s radical politics took over its host when Unilever acquired it? Just a theory.
One of the most effective things that Marxists do is to commandeer language and steer it toward revolutionary goals. The border crisis created by Joe Biden is just a “border challenge,” for example, with “irregular” crossings. The coming tax hikes will be “revenue enhancements.”
Meanwhile, everything gets politicized, even skin care products. Unilever’s surrender to the cancel culture’s hyper-sensitivity mirrors what’s happening in the media, entertainment and social media.
In January, Disney removed “Dumbo,” “Peter Pan,” “Aristocats,” “The Lady and the Tramp,” “The Jungle Book” and “Swiss Family Robinson” from children’s accounts on Disney+.
In late February, Dr. Seuss, whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991), became persona non grata after the Loudoun County, Virginia School Board announced that it was removing six of the author’s books over racial “undertones.” The board said it would not feature him on Read Across America Day, which commemorates the author’s March 2 birthday.
Within days, the publisher pulled “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” “If I Ran the Zoo,” “McElligot’s Pool,” “On Beyond Zebra!,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!” and “The Cat’s Quizzer.”
In his proclamation about Read Across America Day, Joe Biden obediently omitted any mention of Dr. Seuss, unlike his predecessors Donald Trump and Barack Obama.
This is not a trivial side show. Exposing the Left’s insane attacks on normalcy helps to galvanize citizens against their radical agenda, such as an unsecured border, the $1.9 trillion Democrat “Covid relief” slush fund, an end to fair elections (“For the People Act”) and the criminalization of Christianity (“Equality Act”). They’re also teeing up a newly hatched gun-grabbing bill and the wacko Green New Deal.
It’s the same power-mad people whose culture vultures are purging Dr. Seuss, Dumbo and conservative media content.
In February (Black History Month), Amazon removed the popular streaming documentary “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words.” The film began airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in May and streaming for free as part of Prime memberships in October. It was among the top-streaming documentaries, and is still selling well.
“For a while our film was, briefly, No. 1 in documentaries,” the film’s director, Michael Pack, told Wall Street Journal columnist Jason L. Riley. “And I think it’s still No. 25 or 30 or so.”
The movie rating website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 99 percent audience approval rating. Not surprisingly, Amazon still streams two less-popular documentaries about Anita Hill, Mr. Thomas’s accuser at his 1991 confirmation hearing.
On Feb. 10, Lucasfilm announced it had fired popular actress Gina Carano from its hit Disney/Star Wars series “The Mandalorian” over her conservative social media posts.
In early March, the Gannett newspaper chain announced that it would no longer distribute the comic strip “Mallard Fillmore,” inked for 27 years by conservative humorist Bruce Tinsley and featured prominently in The Washington Times. His crime? He criticized Joe Biden’s transgender agenda, which includes biological males participating in women’s sports.
This brings us back to the war on “normal.” We’re living in a culture where bizarrely made-up men in dresses perform Drag Queen Story Hour for small children who must be protected from exposure to Dr. Seuss. It’s all about “tolerance,” and it’s a test of whether America is still the “land of the free and home of the brave.” If they get away with this, they can get away with anything.
As usual, prescient passages in George Orwell’s “1984” help explain what’s going on. The protagonist, Winston, works with a colleague, Syme, in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth, where they rewrite history to fit Big Brother’s agenda. They employ the language of Newspeak.
“You haven’t a real appreciation of Newspeak, Winston,” Syme says. “You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?”
Syme goes on: “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
So, out with “normal” and anything smacking of normal. Out with “husband” or “wife.” In with genderless pronouns, “diversity,” “racism,” “woke” and nonsense terms like “Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden.”
People with evil intent are working very hard with useful idiots to rewire our once-free America into an authoritarian nightmare. By their language, you will know them.
Don’t give them the time of day.
Robert Knight is a contributor to The Washington Times. His latest book is “The Coming Communist Wave: What Happens If the Left Captures All Three Branches of Government“. This column ran originally in The Washington Times.
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
Every word that the left “chooses” is “offensive” to them. The words “chosen” by the left are racist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic and the word “white” is cancer to the left. Hey left wing loons, go to your safe space with a psychiatrist, who will not know what gender he / she is and you can play there, with your gender neutral Barbie dolls, while the psychiatrist, who does not know what gender he is, analyzes your insanity.
More and more we see JUST HOW insane the left is.. IS THERE NO END to this?
no.
every time these communist occupier democrats ban words or sayings or anything visual ….I increase the usage 1000 fold. I now am the proud owner of several tee shirts sporting “banned” words and sayings… I’m currently having the cover art of the banned Dr. Seuss books printed on tee shirts. Whatever these fragments of excrement do or say …you can rest assured that doing the opposite…. IS… the right thing to do.
Those must be approaching collossal size shirts then!
Yeah… you’d think that…L.O.L. but… I opted for more tee-shirts and buying a bigger dresser with more drawers. I literally have one drawer dedicated to tee-shirts!
These – “1984”, “Animal Farm” & others – were supposed to be warnings, not how to books.
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell Attribution
“Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies.” – George Orwell
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” – George Orwell
“That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.” – George Orwell
George Orwell said, “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” – George Orwell
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth.” —George Orwell, “1984”
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” – George Orwell
Cont.
Cont.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.” – George Orwell, “1984”
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”― George Orwell, 1984
“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.” ― George Orwell, 1984
“Some ideas are so absurd that only an intellectual would believe them.” -George Orwell
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” [As true.] -George Orwell
Cont.
Cont.
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” – George Orwell
“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.” – George Orwell, 1984
“All Animals Are Equal, But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others” -George Orwell, Animal Farm
“Every joke is a tiny revolution.” – George Orwell
Cont.
Cont.
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.” -George Orwell
Cont.
Cont.
“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” -George Orwell
As Orwell predicted: “…failure to show results is not important. Efficiency, even military efficiency, is no longer needed. Nothing is efficient in Oceania except the Thought Police.”
As Orwell wrote, “Freedom is slavery.” And, also: “Two and two make five”.
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices.” -George Orwell
“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.” -George Orwell
[I have a meme jpeg in which a uniformed officer – labeled “Thought Police” – says, “Sounds like you’ve had too much to think”. Don’t let it become reality.]
Nicely said Myron