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2007-03-15 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-03-15 15:01|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fjordman is a true classic thinker and a genius. I suggest everyone read everything he writes. I would like to ask him if he were American, what question would he ask at a presidential debate.
In this article, he quotes Roland Huntford, thus;
The customary Swedish for housewife is husmor, which is honourable; it was replaced by the neologism hemmafru, literally the-wife-who-stays-at-home, which is derogatory. Within a few months, the mass media were able to kill the old and substitute the new term. By the end of 1969, it was almost impossible in everyday conversation to mention the state of housewife without appearing to condemn or to sneer. Swedish had been changed under the eyes and ears of the Swedes. Husmor had been discredited; the only way out was to use hemmafru ironically. Connected with this semantic shift, there was a change in feeling. Women who, a year or so before, had been satisfied, and possibly proud, to stay at home, began to feel the pressure to go out to work. The substitution of one word for the other had been accompanied by insistent propaganda in the mass media, so that it was as if a resolute conditioning campaign had been carried out. Very few were able to recognize the indoctrination in the linguistic manipulation; in the real sense of the word, the population had been brain-washed.
Maybe when we rewrite the Constitution, we should make is treason for any media types to attempt to change the meaning of words.

Posted by wxjames 2007-03-15 20:53|| 2007-03-15 20:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Orwell knew whereof he spoke about the power of words and the control of them.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-03-15 21:48|| 2007-03-15 21:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Good article - compare to RIAN > Russian Women: BREADWINNERS AT HOME, OUTCASTS IN POLITICS. Considering the levels of poverty + un-employment for MEN in mainstream Islam, good argument can be made to applicability/relevance for the Muslim babes as well.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-15 22:12|| 2007-03-15 22:12|| Front Page Top

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