{"id":32465,"date":"2020-10-14T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=32465"},"modified":"2020-10-14T11:26:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T16:26:10","slug":"orwellian-adj-how-progressive-ideology-enforces-the-abnormalities-of-the-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/orwellian-adj-how-progressive-ideology-enforces-the-abnormalities-of-the-new-normal","title":{"rendered":"Orwellian (adj.)\u2014How Progressive Ideology Enforces The Abnormalities of the New Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Don\u2019t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is how the character of Syme, in George Orwell’s 1984<\/em>, explains to Winston his work on Newspeak at the Ministry of Truth. Cultural critics have oft remarked upon the prescience Orwell had in imagining aspects of totalitarianism, especially the “soft” totalitarianism that has begun to emerge most recently in society. This week’s hearings for the Supreme Court appointment of Judge Amy Coney Barrett have brought yet another chilling example of a scenario that Orwell himself might have dismissed as implausible and far-fetched, but in reality is a daily occurrence in the “new normal” pushed by progressive ideologues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During questioning at Tuesday’s hearing, Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono (HI) upbraided Barrett<\/a> for using the phrase “sexual preference” in speaking about LGBT issues\u2014a “thought crime” for which the Judge quickly apologized, explaining she did not intend any offense. Many viewers of the hearing, though, were just as puzzled as Barrett seemed to be\u2014since this was the first many of us have ever heard that “sexual preference” is considered “offensive.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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