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The #FakeNoose hoax is a perfect example of a fundamental truth, expressed as a rhetorical question by 'ol Willy Shakespeare:
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
Despite Will's injunction against confusing a thing's name with the essence of that thing, the zeitgeist appears to casually go along with accepting misnomers as a proxy for substance.
Take, for example, the terrorist organization known as "Antifa." The name is an oxymoron. Antifa patterns its behavior precisely upon that of Nazi Brownshirts. They try to silence debate and dissent with terror. They even have a euphemism for that. They call it "direct action."
Further examples abound, most meaning really nothing more than something the user doesn't like or agree with:
* racist
* systemic racism
* patriarchy
* mansplaining
* whiteness
* cis[anything unrelated to molecular conformation]
In typical use, they're proxies for "SHUT UP!"
* racist
* systemic racism
* patriarchy
* mansplaining
* whiteness
* cis[anything unrelated to molecular conformation]
In typical use, they're proxies for "SHUT UP!"
As dangerous as acceptance of these words and phrases at face value is, which is to say, assuming the user is sincere, even if deluded, it's even more dangerous to start using them in earnest, ourselves. We see this danger in NASCAR's use of the phrase "noose-like."
In doing so, NASCAR's leadership accepted a false premise. Given the current political climate, such self-flagellant assent, even if qualified, is understandable, but shameful. They knew if they didn't play lip service to the "noose" claim, the attacks would only increase.
And yet, the left's appetite for "systemic racism" is never satisfied, and the usual suspects all treated NASCAR's use of the misnomer as an admission. They also use it as a justification for their continued use of the word.
"Black Lives Matter" is another example of misnomer being accepted as a designation resonant with the substance behind it. Black lives, writ large, obviously mean little to BLM leadership.
Never mind BLM's treatment of black-on-black violence, which claims vastly more black lives than does all other black victim inter-racial violence, as a "myth" or a "distraction;" BLM actually wages war on black welfare by seeking to destroy the black nuclear family.
No single factor contributes more to American black poverty and criminality, than does the dissolution of the black family. BLM literally writes black fathers out of the picture on their website, which incidentally, is replete with several of the hollow terms listed above.
The goal of further increasing the already dismal 72% out-of-wedlock black birthrate is objectively anti-black and anti-life, and it hits black males especially hard. Black males are the vast majority of black-on-black murder victims, and most imprisoned blacks are men.
Black fatherlessness creates both victims and perpetrators, and the majority of both are black males.
It is no accident BLM is anti-father and promotes policies which harm males. Their statement of purpose speaks to a very strong Marxist feminist mentality.
It is no accident BLM is anti-father and promotes policies which harm males. Their statement of purpose speaks to a very strong Marxist feminist mentality.
BLM calling themselves thus is worse than the most egregious false advertising, for its name illegitimately links their organization to legitimate civil rights efforts.
Just as so often, "the issue isn't the real issue," labels and names are freely bandied about which often mean nothing, mean something completely unrelated to the matter at hand, or mean the opposite of that which is claimed.
Don't believe them and don't join them.
Fight them.
Don't believe them and don't join them.
Fight them.
