If there is one thing that I’ve found that leftists excel at, it’s redefining words so that they don’t mean the original meaning, so that (in their own minds) they can justify their often reprehensible actions.
It also has a side effect of making any discussion with them to be a frustrating experience of “two boats passing in the night.” They keep using a word that you think of as meaning one thing, and in their mind, based on their ideology, it has a different meaning.
Let’s take a fairly uncontroversial example to clarify how this works: When political conservatives or libertarians use the word “democracy,” they are referring to a political system in which each person gets an equal vote, an equal say in what happens in the area being governed. Think ancient Athens, Greece.
However, when those on the political left use the term “democracy,” they twist the meaning to mean a political system that works in the best interest (as they define it) for the most people in the area being governed. Think communism. Think the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. That’s what they call themselves. We call them North Korea, and North Korea is exactly the opposite of what conservatives or libertarians would call a democracy. Yet, North Korea calls themselves democratic, and political leftists often use the term democracy with that meaning, too.
Or take the term violence. If you’re politically conservative or libertarian, you likely define violence as physical harm done to someone or something. Leftists, on the other hand, say that words are violence. And in some cases, they call murder justified, if it fits their narrative.
The perfect example of that is the Luigi Mangioni murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO. Why don’t I say that he allegedly killed that CEO? To find out, read what Jack Queen and Luc Cohen write,
Luigi Mangione admitted in court on Friday that he fatally shot health insurance executive Brian Thompson and pleaded guilty to two federal charges of stalking the ​CEO with the intent to kill him.
“I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died,” Mangione said. He wore beige prison garb and spoke clearly and calmly as he ‌read from a prepared statement laced with criticism of the U.S. health insurance system.
Now, a conservative or a libertarian would say that type of gun violence, when Mangioni wasn’t under any kind of immediate threat of physical violence from that CEO, is murder.
But leftists, on the other hand… Well, you can watch their response below, but be warned: What they’re saying is disturbing.
Keep in mind, the people celebrating Mangioni’s murder of that CEO are the same people who want to prevent you from having a firearm to protect yourself from someone trying to bash your head in or shoot you.
It couldn’t be more clear that the political left doesn’t really want to ban guns, not when it pushes their causes and their narratives.
