As somebody who scans Viewpoint pages in newspapers, I have latterly become aware of a subtle and probably systematic attempt by the liberal left to change the meanings of certain words or expressions.For a long time we have been aware that 'social justice' means anything but and is their code for supporting wasters, the feckless and the undeserving, usually all at the expense of honest and hardworking people.
Recently, there has been a clever attempt to undermine the term 'political correctness' and to use it to describe any wrongdoing by authority for any reason whatsoever. Cunning.
Equally devious has been to entirely change the meaning of 'playing the race card'.
The term has always referred to somebody of limited honesty who has a poor case in a given situation who then pleads their colour, ethnicity or religion as an all embracing trump card to win the trick with a fearful authority which dare not allow itself to be portrayed as racist.
I have recently heard the phrase used to criticise people who have objectively stated some of the problems caused by uncontrolled immigration.
Control words - control minds.
Alice is back in Wonderland!
