{"id":1468,"date":"2004-11-17T20:52:37","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T03:52:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-11-17T20:52:37","modified_gmt":"2004-11-18T03:52:37","slug":"the-n-word-the-f-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/17\/the-n-word-the-f-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The N-Word &#038; the F-Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scrolling down through the threads <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P1461_0_1_0>Tex linked to<\/a> on FreeRepublic and Little Green Footballs, a thought I&#8217;ve had many times before recurred: liberals have ruined the language. By throwing the words &#8220;Nazi&#8221; and &#8220;fascist&#8221; around all these years with reckless abandon, they devalued a portion of our political vocabulary that is desperately needed now. Thanks, liberals, for every time you used the N- or F-word to describe welfare reform, opposition to affirmative action, laissez-faire economics, or the slightest insensitivity. Cos&#8217; now, we&#8217;re looking the real thing right in the face, and the appropriate terms have been sapped of all urgency. <\/p>\n<p>Think I&#8217;m exaggerating? Some <a href=http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/1282108\/posts>FreeRepublicans<\/a> on Kevin Sites, the journalist who filmed the execution of the wounded Iraqi:<\/p>\n<ul>*&#8221;Journalists&#8221; like this should be treated as &#8221;enemy combatants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*No. They are traitors and should be hung.<\/p>\n<p>*OK, you&#8217;re a Marine searching enemy bodies in a mosque. One of the bodies is starting to move and there is a reporter filming in the room. You only have two rounds left.<\/p>\n<p>Quick! What do you do!<\/p>\n<p>Shoot the reporter twice&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>*It would be fitting to see him become the next &#8220;Salman Rushdie&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>*72 Virgins to you mother fucker! <\/p>\n<p>You media f*cks who want to burn those Marines are not worth the sweat off my&#8230;&#8230;just go fuck yourself! <\/p>\n<p>*Would it be a threat to suggest that mister sites be left in the next Mosque with a billet [sic] in his head?<\/p>\n<p>*[Beneath a photo of Sites] Kevin Sites &#8211; &#8211; Next Friendly-Fire Victim<\/ul>\n<p>Go read the thread if you think I&#8217;m cherrypicking. Nary a word of dissent \u2013 except perhaps a couple of posts that have been removed by the administrator.<\/p>\n<p>And from <a href=http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/weblog\/?entry=13619>Charles Johnson&#8217;s Little Green Footballs<\/a> (blogrolled by Glenn &#8220;<a href=http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?as_q=&#038;num=10&#038;hl=en&#038;btnG=Google+Search&#038;as_epq=crushing+of+dissent&#038;as_oq=&#038;as_eq=&#038;lr=&#038;as_ft=i&#038;as_filetype=&#038;as_qdr=all&#038;as_nlo=&#038;as_nhi=&#038;as_occt=any&#038;as_dt=i&#038;as_sitesearch=www.instapundit.com&#038;safe=off>Crushing of Dissent<\/a>&#8221; Reynolds):<\/p>\n<ul>*Journalists should wear bright orange clothes so the murdering terrorists can see who they don&#8217;t need to shoot at but can if they want. <\/p>\n<p>*I just thought, there are very many Marines in California once Kevin Sites returns home.<\/p>\n<p>Just a thought.<\/p>\n<p>*The Marine in this situation deserves a Congressional Medal of Honor.<\/p>\n<p>*Note to Marines: save at least one round for embedded terrorist sympathizers.<\/p>\n<p>*&#8221;Oops, sorry, I was aiming at the rat behind your head and about to eat at your eyeballs.<\/p>\n<p>Damn, I wish I had trained harder during shooting practice. Third time this week I&#8217;ve missed a friggin&#8217; rat.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>*If I were in a Marine squad, the first thing I would do is make sure the embedded &#8220;reporter&#8221; and &#8220;cameraman&#8221; somehow got &#8220;lost&#8221;. Failing that I&#8217;d make sure that the camera was damaged by &#8220;enemy&#8221; fire. <\/p>\n<p>*May be this smug elitist &#8220;blue stater&#8221;, POS, will catch a live grenade&#8230;.to save the life of a soldier, of course&#8230;.:).<\/ul>\n<p>And so on. Time to call a spade a spade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scrolling down through the threads Tex linked to on FreeRepublic and Little Green Footballs, a thought I&#8217;ve had many times before recurred: liberals have ruined the language. By throwing the words &#8220;Nazi&#8221; and &#8220;fascist&#8221; around all these years with reckless abandon, they devalued a portion of our political vocabulary that is desperately needed now. 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