Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) made one of the most
ludicrous statements imaginable recently. And that is saying something in the
context of today’s society. She tweeted: “Denying Dr. Ford an FBI investigation
is silencing her. Forcing her into a sham hearing is silencing her. And pushing through Brett Kavanaugh’s
confirmation is silencing her.” No on all counts. Granting her the opportunity
to testify about the totally unsubstantiated accusations she has made against
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is the opposite of silencing her. It is providing her a sanctioned,
formal, forum for speaking about those totally unsubstantiated accusations.
The
hearing won’t be a sham, at least in the sense that Gillibrand meant. Senate
Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has offered Ford a public hearing, a
private hearing, a public staff interview and a private staff interview. He
said he’d even be willing to have his staff travel to California, or anywhere
else she’d care to meet, in order to obtain her testimony. This is, again, not
“silencing” Ford, but the opposite…a willingness to provide numerous
alternatives for her to talk.
Sen.
Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), on the other hand, recently said that men should “just
shut up.” That is a clear attempt to
silence not just one person, but an entire gender. It was not immediately clear
if Hirono believes that women who identify
as men should be silenced, too.
Leftists
have a long and complicated history with language. They are exceedingly fond of
certain words, such as “racist,” “Homophone,” “bigot,” “misogynist,”
“marginalized,” “inclusive,” “safe space,” “genderqueer,” “impeachment,”
“abortion,” and “Stormy.” They do not, however, like engaging in principled,
rational debate. Nor do they like it when conservatives are allowed to talk.
They no longer like the words comprising the Second Amendment. Or the First,
Fifth, Sixth or Tenth.
They do
take an almost religious zeal, ironically, in adamantly asserting that many
words mean exactly the opposite of their actual dictionary definition.
Therefore, encouraging someone to speak is “silencing” them. Yet, progressives
think conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh should be permanently shut up via “The
Fairness Doctrine.”
Leftists
label true stories as “fake news.” They believe averring that “All Lives
Matter” somehow means “Let’s Kill Black People.” They think “justice” is
achieved by racial quotas and affirmative action and that “merit” is synonymous
with “racist.” They call the mass killing of babies “women’s health care.” They
apparently define “antonym” as: “one of two or more words or expressions of the
same language that have the same or nearly the same meaning.”
Orwell
understood this tactic. Ergo: “war is peace,” “freedom is slavery,” and
“ignorance is strength.”
Today’s socialist Democrats really
seem hell-bent on proving that last
one.
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“The
very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into
history.”—George Orwell
“Freedom is the right to tell
people what they do not want to hear.”—George Orwell. (Hence, the First
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Freedom, as long practiced
in the West, is fading out of the world, too).
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