Difference between revisions of "Libertarian Propaganda Terms"
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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 perversion of language and how it creates their [[ideology]]. Frames, [[phatic expression]], [[shibboleth]], terms of art: very simply, they have a coded meaning for libertarians that is not standard English. | show=}} | + | {{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. | 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. | ||
