The Cellar - View Single Post - Israeli Terror Against Families, Even Their Own

MaggieL · 05-24-2006, 05:47 AM

Words have meanings, and semantics is important. Otherwise you wouldn't be trying to use semantics as a political tool yourself.

By calling Israeli immigration policy "terror", you attempt to create a moral equivalance between their attempts to defend themselves, and the genuine terrorism they are trying to protect themselves from. You can agree that this particular effort is justified, or not...but calling it "terror" cheapens the word. Being separated from your spouse is terrible. Wondering every second if the bus you're riding in is about to be shredded by thirty pounds of C4 and two thousand steel nails is terror.

Calling this policy "terror" is a propiganda technique, pure and simple. To dismiss criticism of it as "semantics" is disingenuous.

"The slovenliness of our language enables us to have foolish thoughts." --Orwell

05-24-2006, 05:47 AM	#9
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	Words have meanings, and semantics is important. Otherwise you wouldn't be trying to use semantics as a political tool yourself. By calling Israeli immigration policy "terror", you attempt to create a moral equivalance between their attempts to defend themselves, and the genuine terrorism they are trying to protect themselves from. You can agree that this particular effort is justified, or not...but calling it "terror" cheapens the word. Being separated from your spouse is terrible. Wondering every second if the bus you're riding in is about to be shredded by thirty pounds of C4 and two thousand steel nails is terror. Calling this policy "terror" is a propiganda technique, pure and simple. To dismiss criticism of it as "semantics" is disingenuous. "The slovenliness of our language enables us to have foolish thoughts." --Orwell __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."