Politics and the English Language

Words
690
Reading
4 min
9y
Listen to this post
~5 min

I wrote this piece sometime ago as a parody of social justice language and logic. It's title Politics and the English Language was taken from a piece written my George Orwell. In Orwell's version he discusses how the use of certain words and phrases can be used to alter the perception of the general public, he was mostly referring to this language used by Government and Media for the most part. While this is a very important area of discussion I also though that private citizens in the current standing has also taken an Orwellian command of our language through political correctness. This new version of political speech has an equally negative effect on freedom through censorship, however it differs from my understanding of Orwell's approach because it involves this new wave of cultural Marxism and it's effect on language. My adaptation if you will is written from the perception of a man named John Tignor, a man working for the Bureau on Offensive Speech, Religion, Press, and Protest an agency that censors out offensive materials to protect feeling of oppressed minorities. Mr. Tignor is writing to free speech activists hoping to convince them that Free Speech is not a human write. I hope you enjoy the satire and humor of this piece and take away the importance of individual freedom of speech. PEACE.

Politics and the English Language John Tignor,
I would first like to apologize I have only a score of 67 and lack the points necessary to comment on this subject but I feel the need to clarify the lifesaving efforts of The Government.
I am John Tignor an employee for the Bureau on Offensive Speech, Religion, Press, and Protest. I am writing this piece to explain to politically minded individuals that the freedom of speech is old fashioned and is not a human right. There is a reason that offensive speech is punishable by law. Do you remember the time before the 29th Amendment to the constitution protected us from mean words, mental health centers were filled with people, non binary, otherkin, and quasi humanoid peoples ( please tell me if I left out your identification, or gender). Our brains were not built to accept un-nice speech, and so the government protected us. We now understand the right to an anxiety free life, and the right to stop those who are not nice to us.
This brings me to my second point, the Minority Codes. I will often see illegal websites that appear on my desktop before government evaluation, or undergrounds circulars that say the minority codes are ill moral. These people are often misguided on the Codes, or have high levels of privilege that causes them to score low. Here is a basic explanation of the Codes and why we need them. The Minority Codes are used to determine your level of privilege and asses your ability to respect the rights of others. We use a system of points the higher your score the better of a person you are. A white, cis gender, binary male, is going to have a very low score this means that they pose a great threat to our society, and will then in turn be barred from certain jobs, A non-binary, gender fluid trans, person of color is very brave and will respect the gender needs of others. The reason Minority Codes are so important is because they allow the government to determine who is to be given aide and free mental health care. The Codes also allow us to evaluate the best candidates for jobs, politically minded people often talk about bringing back democracy, but all that ever did was reinforce the patriarchy. The system makes sure that low scoring people cannot enforce their ways upon us.

I would like to take a moment now to apologize to any of the 75 known genders, any non binary, otherkin, people of color, large people of beauty, or quasi humanoid peoples that may have taken offense to anything I have said. This was a statement on behalf of The Government and I apologize for any micro-aggressions that I have made.

Politics and the English Language | Ecency