Thu Jun 8, 2023 – 1:58 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Earlier this week, I noted in this space that the media’s promotion of gender ideology is eroding public trust in the press – and that this fact is almost entirely absent from discussions about the collapse of faith in the fourth estate. When stories about brawny, bearded, snaggle-toothed rapists are published with “she/her” pronouns and journalists calling the criminals “Janice,” they naturally cast doubt on the trustworthiness of other stories in the same publication. If the press is willing to lie about something so obvious, the thinking goes, what else are they lying about?
It is cliché to mention George Orwell these days – everyone does it. But when it comes to explaining how totalitarians of all stripes manipulate language for ideological ends, it is difficult to beat 1984. “’Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?’ Syme, of the Ministry of Truth, tells Winston Smith. ‘In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.’”
It sounds very much like Syme is describing new updates to
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