XPost: can.politics, aus.politics, us.politics   
   From: campbell@neotext.ca   
      
   On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 21:46:08 +0300, Oleg Smirnov wrote:   
      
   > *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.   
      
   'Freedom ain't worth nothin', but its Free.   
      
   Dhu   
      
   --   
   Je suis Canadien. Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglaise.   
    C'est une esp`ece de sauvage: ne obliviscaris, vix ea nostra voco;-)   
      
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