It has been awhile since I have written a word hijacking piece. This essentially refers to the process whereby words are intentionally redefined and the public mostly seems unaware that the process has even occurred. This appears to be predominantly for political, and population manipulation purposes. I simply consider it an extension of the concept of propaganda.
I have written other posts on this topic and you may or may not be interested in reading those to go along with this post. The first one is where I went into some detail on what I am referring to when I speak of word hijacking.
- Word Hijacking: The study based battle for control of our minds
- Word Hijacking 2.0: Just who is a traitor, what is treason?
- Word Hijacking 3.0: Anarchy, Climate Change, Occult, Conspiracy Theory
- Word Hijacking 4.0: - Thanks to my friends in slack the words today are ORGANIC, GMO, TROLL and HIJACKING
- Deflection and Taboo words... Troll, Racist, Conspiracy Theorist, etc.
I was reading through the news as I do each day. I have found that the daily @newsagg post helps with this some. It is often when I am reading the news from many different sources that ideas for something I want to write about comes to mind. Today that was the desire to write a new word hijacking posts.
NAZI
I have been seeing the term Nazi thrown around very liberally these days. At first I would sometimes find it ironic because as an avid fan of history and as someone who was way into World War II studies as a child and into my teens I know a bit about how the Nazis came to exist, and what their actions were. The irony comes into my mind as I realize the person throwing the label around clearly has very limited knowledge of this. Their knowledge is likely limited to the fact that Hitler was a Nazi, the Nazi's killed jews, believed in the Aryan race, and were racists.
This did indeed describe some of the Nazis, and it did describe Hitler.
Yet really Nazis were members of the National Socialists party within the German political system. They were actually advocates at the time of many of the same things Bernie Sanders was speaking about on his campaign. It was the movement that was born out of the earlier German Worker's Party. Adolf Hitler was not it's founder, but he did become it's leader. He was elected with great popularity by the German people as he told them what they wanted to hear, and things that sounded very good, and very fair to them at the time. This was during a period when the government of the time known as the Weimar Republic was struggling with hyper inflation of the currency and many other things. The ideas of the National Socialists sounded very appealing in that environment.
Eventually they would seize power, and through machinations would overthrow the Weimar Republic and you would eventually have Adolf Hitler as the Dictator/Fuehrer.
The Rise of the Third Reich
This process was not peaceful and without oppression. There was much activity to suppress freedom of speech and the press. Goebbels and other people working for Hitler were some of the first to master propaganda and put it to good use. Much of staying in power and keeping the people behind you was to point out an enemy they can blame. Back in that time pointing out the Jews was much like pointing out the 1% is today. Jews were often bankers and quite successful ones and had been for years. They were an obvious target to unite the poor and struggling masses. It worked.
The first step is to dehumanize these people, and convince the masses that attacking them is a good thing. Does any of this sound familiar to you? It should, as it has been happening today in the United States and in other countries. It has not actually been coming from the so called Nazi parties, neo-nazis, and white supremacists. They are a small minority and they don't actually have much power, they certainly do not have control of the propaganda mechanism.
In fact if you just go by actions then the mainstream media, some politicians, and Antifa are actually far closer to what the actions of the actual Nazi party were.
You see they find you an enemy, and they keep pointing at them, and they use labels. They also will make sure to use that same label on ANYONE that disagrees with them even if they have no such political affiliations.
You see the Charlottesville Unite The Right rally is being billed all across the media as a White Supremacists Rally, Nazi Rally, Neo-Nazi Rally, etc. Yet it wasn't. There WERE some people in that group that would fit that label. They were not the majority. The rest were there simply to protect history rather than censor it. They were speaking of Uniting because though they may not be able to put it into words I believe that many that get labeled casually by people who don't like what they are saying have begun to see the Nazi/Fascists like actions being targeted against them.
Here are two Unite the Right Rally Members
Do you think those guys are white supremacists and Nazis?
This leads into the next word... Fascists, and Fascism.
Fascists
This term and how it is often used today blows my mind. I am one of those people that believes actions are far more important than words. I've actually studied the historical actions of the fascists, particularly in the World War II era and the most fascist acting group that I am aware of in the world today goes by the name.
Antifa or Anti-Fascists.
If they were truly anti-fascists then judging by their actions I'd expect them to be committing mass suicide (no I am not endorsing this, only stating for illustration). Why? The name they have chosen for themselves is completely the opposite of their actions.
So what does this tell me? Anti-fascists also known as Antifa is a hijacked word. It has been manipulated to be a weapon and a rallying cry by the very ideologies and actions that they claim to be fighting.
Fascism and Mussolini | The 20th century | World history | Khan Academy
It is working to a degree. There certainly seems to be an interest in the higher echelons of keeping the populace fighting among themselves. Divide and conquer. Antifa has become an violent and aggressive arm of that process.
The propaganda series is blocking and covering for them as well.
I highly recommend ANYONE find an unedited stream of the early day events that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12th, 2017 of at least an hour or more in length. Find one that doesn't pause, but just keeps running.
You'll see something VERY different from what the mainstream media is showing.
You will see people yelling, but no violence. That is until Antifa shows up with water coolers, pepper spray, etc. The water coolers contained bottles and balloons full of piss, shit, paint, and chemicals. THEY proceeded to throw these at the Unite the Right Rally members. This initiated the violence and was started by Antifa just as it was at Berkeley. Antifa kept this onslaught on for easily more than an hour with the police just standing by watching.
I also want you to consider that the piss and shit could be considered assault with a deadly weapon if they are human feces or urine. These substances can carry blood borne diseases/virus such as HIV, Hepatitis, etc. They only need to get into an eye, a mouth, or an open wound to potentially infect someone. I doubt many people actually thought of this, but I have.
Then when it was briefly called an unlawful assembly though they had a permit the police would not let the Unite the Right Rally people leave a safe direction. When people would try to walk a safe direction that was one of the few times you would see the police take action. They had been ordered by the Mayor to stand down. They forced the Unite Rally members to go back through the same people that had been attacking them.
So now let's go to the one horrible event AGAINST Antifa in ALL of that which happened. The car that a guy from Ohio slammed into some Antifa and it killed one and injured others. Here in Denver yesterday at a Rally they were claiming 3 people died at the Rally, and that 2 of them were cops. They were saying even that the car killed two cops. If you watch the original videos of that car hitting people there were no cops involved. Remember they were pretty much standing back not getting involved?
Then you'll keep seeing media spin that 3 people died at that rally. This is a lie. One person died. The two police men that died were in a helicopter that crashed that was observing the rally. As far as I know we haven't heard reports of that helicopter getting shot down, or seen videos of that murderous car flying through the air and smashing into the helicopter. Other than the fact the helicopter crashed and it had been being used to observe the rally, those deaths were not caused by the rally. This is based upon information I have currently heard.
So as with the Nazis, and Fascists of World War II the media is spinning the propaganda and reporting 3 deaths when there was only one.
I have also seen many reports saying the Unite Rally members were armed with firearms. This was not true. Some of them had shields and clubs, but they had met before the rally to stress a peaceful rally so most of them didn't even have clubs, or any weapons.
There are reports of them throwing bottles at Antifa. This did happen a few times. Do you know how? They were throwing the bottle back that antifa had just thrown at them. They did not bring bottles, balloons, etc. Those were brought in by Antifa in water coolers. If you watch any uninterrupted streams you'll actually hear people talking about it as it happens. You'll hear people asking what is in the balloons and bottles that are hitting people. You'll hear the gradual flow of information as they gradually tell each other what is going on.
Yet the media does not point that out. They are in fact fabricating a lot of lies, just like the Nazis and Fascists did. Some of them are even spinning Antifa as the victim.
This is propaganda and word hijacking in action.
EDIT: Some examples since then. The following just happened this week. If you research Nazis, and Fascists then who exactly here fits those labels based upon comparing actual actions of Nazi and Fascist movements.
It is curious because the National socialists, who did not call themselves Nazis, based the structure of their party and their organization on the communist parties, since Hitler said that these were the ones who were better prepared.
Many National socialists were for a long time in fact Marxist socialists, such as Goebbels. The same with the fascists, it is known that Mussolini was a leader of the socialist party before creating fascism.
It's funny how the terms have been misrepresented. The Soviets, who were specialists in propaganda, and of which the National socialists referred in that sense, were the first in call fascist to the National socialists, and they were also the first to use the Nazi term. This is because the Soviets did not want the socialist word to be associated with Hitler's Germany.
If you notice, Hitler, Mussolini or Franco, they did not have the same model of government, however, they are all called fascists as if they were the same.
The anti-fascists (really socialists) will always be fascists, because the fascists based their model on socialism. The SA and the SS, as well as the Mussolini blackshirts, are based on the socialist gangs that preceded him. That is, the fascists were created as a reaction to the socialists, and not vice versa, later these socialists called themselves anti-fascists, because they are really smart, and they know that the word fascist is associated with negative connotations, so if they are anti-something which is negative, then they undoubtedly are the good ones.
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I'm living in an area where most people are ultra left wing and I can't tell you how many times in conversations I had to stop and back up just to clarify the new meaning the "liberal" has assigned to an old word. It gets frustrating especially since online dictionaries get updated daily with this Hijacking mindset.
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I love people to throw dictionaries at me. It is an opportunity to teach Appeal To Authority Fallacy, and Argument From Authority Fallacies.
Most people don't seem to get that a dictionary has NO AUTHORITY. It is a tool. It is created by humans and any of us have the right to create one. They are great for teaching people words they may not know, to look up things they just encountered but didn't understand. Yet they do not have any actual authority.
People that try to bludgeon others with dictionary definitions actually open the door to have that conversation. :)
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Well that's in the English language. In French, Spanish and Portuguese, for example, there is a centralized entity that is responsible for governing the correct use of words. The Real Academia Española, for example, is more than 300 years old, and is in charge of precisely preventing the hijacking the words.
The progressives have had multiple problems with the RAE because it has not allowed them to distort the meaning of the words. In fact, when in Spanish you use the word liberal, it is in fact to refer to a true liberal.
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How about the war the Jewish community declared on Germany in 1934? and the FACT(I have learned since being in Poland) that most of the Jewish community from Poland (wealthiest) moved out from Poland before ww2?
Most of them owned a business here so most were in fact wealthy. History is written by the winner of the war it seems.
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You make some great points about the over-use of the terms Nazi & fascist.
To me one of the biggest ironies about all this is that Antifa acts in a way that could be best described as Nazi or Fascist. And for those who are still under the spell of mainstream media, these words have become a powerful disruptor of cogent debate.
And as we have seen, these words have been used to whip up a frenzy over voting for who is essentially a mega-capitalist.
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