1. Equality- There’s
such thing as equal before the law (in concept, not in practice), but whenever
somebody uses “equality” as a justification for something, you know the actions
will involve theft, revocation of rights, or punishment for success and subsidy
of failure.
2. Democracy- Even a casual student of the humanities knows
how well democracy worked out for Socrates. Besides its serious shortcomings as
a means of political organization, the idea of the majority rule is used as
justification for a host of atrocities including foreign wars, theft through
taxation, and as with Socrates, murder.
It, along with its more insidious cousin known as the republic (which is
what the US actually is) has led to the preservation of slavery and then Jim
Crow laws, the ascent of Hitler and the murder of 6 million individuals, and
the horrors of central banking. Just
because the majority of legal voters likes something doesn’t make it moral.
3. Social Justice- This is usually used to justify the theft
of property from a party in order for the supposed crime of their ancestors,
under the assumption that the result will provide peace and equality. Of course never addressed is how you intend
to foster peace and equality within the resentment of theft.
4. Class/proletariat/ 99%- In the United States, class is
mostly an illusion crafted by socialists to make you resent individuals who
have been productive. The reality is
that age is most associated with income and wealth, and the young usually end
up moving into the middle and upper “classes” by the time they retire. The induced
struggle then becomes between people who have already produced wealth, and those
who have yet to produce any.
5. The American Dream- The idea of satisfied wealth, home
ownership, and children is, believe it or not, outside of the scope of desire
for many Americans. This combined with the odd transformation of the results of
hard work, thrift, and savings into a mountain of unsustainable debt attached
to your home makes this one of the most illusory concepts in the modern
mind. Look for it to be used in a sorrowful
manner by those who feel entitled to comfort and by politicians to invoke a
greater theft of your money to subsidize home debt.
6. Christian Nation- Alright, time for a term from the
right. People love to call America a
Christian Nation when they are attempting to upend the separation of church and
state by instituting prayer in public schools, preventing the building of
mosques, preventing the teaching of evolution, and a host of other repressive
irrational causes. Don’t expect to enter
into a reasonable debate with the people who champion this cause; the appeal to
the authority of the founders as justification for the appeal to the authority
of God is a logical fallacy you cannot hope to overcome.
7. Hero- In the classical sense heroes were characters like
Hercules or Jason that did impossible feats. Today the category of Hero has
been expanded to include all people who use force on behalf of the government
as well as anyone who has ever done something nice for another human (or puppy)
ever. Being called a Hero is half a step
up from being called “nice,” only I generally don’t paint an entire profession of
people whose job it is to kill or repress others as “nice.” It is essentially a
meaningless term used to golf-clap for people who don’t actually produce
anything for society (and of course, their families).
8. Needy- This term is usually used when a third party takes
it upon themselves to determine someone’s needs. What they almost always need is more of your
money. Of course, the assumption is that
you don’t have any needs. You make
24,000 dollars a year. You’re rich.
9. Hungry- Same as needy, only worse. How do you determine who is hungry? Do you go around and ask them? You can’t use
the term “starving” because people die of that;
there would be bodies. Did you know there’s a strong correlation between
food stamps and obesity? Just think about that. Even bums, who spend your change on booze, and
can’t get food stamps, somehow manage to feed themselves.
Sources: http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=do-food-stamps-lead-to-obesity-2009-08-11
10. Diversity- Maddox once did a much more thorough
debunking of this term, but I will affirm him:
People almost always mean diversity of appearance, not thought, because
of the belief that all brown people will represent some “black perspective,”
and all white people will represent some “white perspective.” You could get a Thomas Sowell for that diversity
hire, and add him to a room of white republicans and not see very much change
in the output of thought.
Maddox articles: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=stock_photos
11. Rape Culture/Patriarchy- A set of popular feminist terms
used to cast all males into the role of predator, taking sex from unwilling
women because of the dominating effects of their patriarchal culture. The reality is that most men are unwilling to
have sex without consent; indeed, it is primarily women who control the occurrences
of sex and with whom. The few exceptions
to this are generally viewed as abhorrent. The actual tension attempting to be described by
the term “rape culture,” is just an objection to how interaction between the sexes
has evolved. Society’s typical placement
of women is as selectors and rejecters in the case of sex, as opposed to the
male experience of pursuit and peacocking.
If you are a man, you don’t have to apologize for having sex. If you are a woman, you are allowed to enjoy
it.
More to come some other time!
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