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{{DES | des = Libertarian and conservative think-tanks have labored mightily to make propaganda terms such as [[Free Market|free market]] part of the thinking of ordinary people.  Most libertarians have no idea how they are manipulated by this language and how it creates their ideology. | show=}}
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{{DES | des = Libertarian and conservative think-tanks have labored mightily to make propaganda terms such as [[Libertarian (propaganda sense)|libertarian]] and [[Free Market|free market]] part of the thinking of ordinary people.  Most libertarians have no idea how they are manipulated by this perversion of language and how it creates their [[ideology]], starting with the word [[Libertarian (propaganda sense)|libertarian]] itself (which everywhere else still means "anarchist".) Frames, [[phatic expression]], [[shibboleth]], terms of art: very simply, they have a coded meaning for libertarians that is not standard English. | show=}}
Libertarians have continued anti-communist and cold-war propaganda traditions and added their own terminology and newspeak.  They have de-emphasized ideas promoting religion, and emphasized ideas about capitalism.
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Libertarians have continued anti-communist and cold-war propaganda traditions and added their own terminology and [[newspeak]].  They have de-emphasized ideas promoting religion, and emphasized ideas about capitalism.
  
 
With decades of promotion, some of these terms have come into common usage or have been commonly associated with the libertarian propaganda meanings.  These are commonly used in [[Framing]].
 
With decades of promotion, some of these terms have come into common usage or have been commonly associated with the libertarian propaganda meanings.  These are commonly used in [[Framing]].
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"Coercion" and "initiation of physical aggression" are the most common.  Basically, they boil down to this: "Rights are force we like. Coercion is force we don't like."
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Also known as "Libertarian American Vernacular English" or more simply: Libonics.  ([https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughLibertarianSpam/comments/jepr71/anything_i_dont_like_violates_the_nap/g9fxgqe/ Thanks, sotonohito!])  Sometimes also called "libspeak".  In essence, it makes it impossible to truly communicate with the true believers.
  
 
A fun way to learn about this propaganda is to play {{Link|LINGO: Libertarian propaganda term BINGO.}}  It doesn't have as many terms as this page, but it is a good start.
 
A fun way to learn about this propaganda is to play {{Link|LINGO: Libertarian propaganda term BINGO.}}  It doesn't have as many terms as this page, but it is a good start.

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