Misleading Words

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Misleading words

Words whose apparent meaning is opposite from their actual meaning. The words listed hare are comparable to words such as Ministry of Truth, Goodsex, and Joycamp in Orwell's version of Newspeak.



Affirmative Action
Implied : Action which is correct ("Affirmative" means correct, and "Action" is normally good as well)
Actual : Preferential treatment for a particular minority group. (See : Apartheid, Racism)

American interest
Implied : The interest of Americans.
Actual : The interest of American corporations. This term is used by politicians that wish to start a war, without explaining the specific reasons they are doing it.

Bipartisanship
Implied - When both sides agree.
Actual - When conservatives acknowledge that liberals are right, and agree to support their programs.

Change - This term is generally used to suggest that a particular idea is good because it is newer. But, seldom are the effects of this "change" fully examined. Newer is not always better. Remember… Nazism was change. Communism was change. Prohibition was change. 'Jim Crow' laws were change. Democracy was change…. Ok, so sometimes change is good. But, when a politician asks for 'change', one should consider whether or not the cure is really any better than the disease.

Department of Defense
Implied - Department concerned with the defense of America's borders
Actual - Department concerned with maintaining of American principles around the world through acts of large-scale terrorism.

Feminist
Implied - One who wishes to be more feminine, and wishes to protect feminine ideas and custom.
Actual - One who wishes to be more masculine, and destroy differences between the sexes.

Free Elections
Implied - The masses are free to choose any person they wish to run their government.
Actual - The masses are free to choose between the two candidates we choose for them... and if possible, even that is prohibited.

Gay Rights
Implied : Right to be a homosexual.
Actual : Denying the right for anybody to argue with a homosexual's political views.

Gun Control
Implied - Laws which will control guns, and keep weapons out of the hands of criminals.
Actual - Laws which criminals will ignore, but which will keep weapons out of the hands of potential victims.

Hateful Policies
Implied - Policies which spread 'hate'.
Actual - Policies written by people that we hate.

National security
Implied - The security of the nation.
Actual - The security of those in power. The security of our colonies. (See: neo-colonization)

Progressive
Implied - One who wishes to move his country forward.
Actual - One who wishes to move his country toward a state-socialism.

Terrorist Attack
Implied : When an evil group ruthlessly attacks peaceful citizens for no reason whatsoever.
Actual : When we upset a group so much, they fight back as best they can against our superior forces. America is a "good" country because we bomb the hell out of terrorist nations. (I'm sure if some other great Empire would have interfered with Washington DC's conquest of the South in the way we interfered with Iraq reclaiming its own southern region, we would bomb the hell out of them too.)

World Community
Implied : A league of equal states. Communities are quaint, little places where everybody gets along - and wouldn't it be nice if the world was like that?
Actual : Other petty governments that don't stand in the way of U.S. interest. A desire to turn the world into one community - and just like any other 'community', it will need to be policed - by us.

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