The American Spectator
•US Politics
US Politics
61% Informative
James McGee : We must put an end to magical thinking that dominates our public discourse.
McGee : At present, “the” truth isn’t simply ignored, but rather inverted, turned upside down, divested of all legitimate meaning.
He says the suggestion that Israel ’s war on Hamas is genocidal represents an almost perfect inversion of the truth.
McGee says we need to start insisting on “truth,” not “my truth,’ or “your truth” but rather an objective representation of things as they are.
“Genocide” and “ Nazi ” may be the worst current examples of truth inversion in the service of a leftist political agenda.
“ Refugee ” is yet another, a word that once had clear meaning, a usage that described an offer of refuge to those fleeing a murderous regime.
Perhaps the real agenda is something more narrow-minded and brutal, perhaps it’s just yet another chapter in the culture war waged by urban intellectuals.
The pretense that the murder of three U.S. Army reservists by Iranian -backed terrorists is not an act of war represents a similar species of magical thinking.
George Orwell observed that political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
We truly seem to have fallen down the rabbit hole, or passed through the looking glass.
VR Score
55
Informative language
48
Neutral language
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Article tone
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Language complexity
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Offensive language
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Hate speech
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Attention-grabbing headline
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Known propaganda techniques
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