XPost: can.politics, aus.politics, us.politics   
   From: os333@netc.eu   
      
   *Ördög*,    
      
   > There are certain words in English which become completely twisted away   
   > from their actual meanings   
      
   Not only in English it is so.   
      
   > due to being hijacked by far-right and   
   > religious fundamentalist political propagandists.   
      
   No, not only due to the right-wingers.   
      
   > I'd call that crime against good semantics.   
      
   Which would be too maximalist.   
      
   Words are naturally becoming 'fetishized'.   
      
   > The word *Freedom* is certainly not the only one.   
      
   Anyone who'd learn the etymological origin of the word 'freedom'   
   (not only in English, in many languages it's similar), would find   
   it's not as nice as in the modern [leftist] meaning.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)