April 21, 2004

Political Words, Political Games

Let’s be honest: The Right has won the American language war, and the Left has helped them do it. From “Partial Birth Abortion,” the “Death Tax” and the “Patriot Act” to the Pro-Life/Pro-Choice debate, the Left has been arguing on a linguistic terrain constructed and continually redefined by the Right.

The problem with this is simple: there is no way to win a debate in which one is confined to another’s words when language is the central battlefield of politics. The side that is able to define the terms and control the images that present politics to the public is the side that is likely to win.

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Posted by Palabris at April 21, 2004 11:23 AM
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