Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - Words the Left Uses Against Us
Aired: 2023-12-01
Duration: 11:10


=== New Words, Old Phobias (10:57) ===

[00:00:03]  Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
[00:00:07]  The internet censors hate my videos.
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[00:00:13]  In his famous essay, Politics and the English Language, George Orwell wrote that the English language was becoming a catalog of swindles and perversions.
[00:00:24]  He added that the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.
[00:00:31]  And that...
[00:00:32]  Dear viewer, was in 1946.
[00:00:36]  The left has a genius for swindles and perversions.
[00:00:40]  It's always inventing new words in its fight against reality.
[00:00:45]  A pioneering example was the word racism.
[00:00:48]  It didn't exist until 1934, when a German-Jewish medical scientist, Magnus Hirschfeld, wrote a book which was translated into English with the title racism.
[00:01:01]  It may be hard to believe, but the United States managed to institute and abolish slavery, set up Jim Crow, and segregate schools and neighborhoods without once using a word that society considers indispensable today.
[00:01:16]  How did we manage?
[00:01:18]  Since then the word has had a very good career.
[00:01:22]  This is a graph of the word's percentage of all words used in American books since the word was invented.
[00:01:29]  This is a percentage, so it's a direct measure of the popularity of the word, not of the increase in the number of books.
[00:01:38]  The data are from Google Books.
[00:01:41]  Unfortunately, they don't go past 2019.
[00:01:45]  As you can see, the word really took off in the 1960s during the Civil Rights Movement and has been climbing steeply since 2012.
[00:01:55]  It's a real pity we don't have data after the May 25, 2020 martyrdom of George Floyd.
[00:02:02]  There must have been a huge surge since then.
[00:02:05]  However, racism has lost a lot of its sting through overuse.
[00:02:10]  If everything's racist, nothing is racist.
[00:02:13]  So, white supremacy is in vogue because it evokes slavery and lynching.
[00:02:19]  It's a real word, which goes back to before 1900.
[00:02:24]  And means whites ruling over non-whites, as in colonialism.
[00:02:29]  It's shooting up now, with no end in sight.
[00:02:33]  Institutional racism was invented in the late 1960s, but it took another 20 years for liberals to discover systemic racism, which is coming on strong.
[00:02:44]  But neither can compete with the emotional power of white supremacy.
[00:02:50]  And neither of these newfangled, invented forms of racism, systemic or institutional, can compete with white privilege, the orange line, which goes all the way back to the 1980s.
[00:03:03]  Implicit bias, the blue line, didn't really take off until 2000, but it has surged ahead of the venerable institutional racism.
[00:03:13]  Very impressive.
[00:03:14]  Remember, not one of these words even existed before 1960, and every one is a lefty invention.
[00:03:23]  Enslaver and enslaved person have hit the big time, especially since 2015.
[00:03:30]  The left loves these words because it thinks slave sounds like a permanent, inherent status, whereas enslaved person puts the emphasis on person, and enslaved is supposed to sound like an evil imposition.
[00:03:47]  Enslaver is the nasty new word for slaveholder, and is supposed to make it sound like anyone who owned a slave, even if he just inherited one, was an enslaver out in the jungle.
[00:03:59]  Catching black people.
[00:04:01]  Now I'll add the traditional term slaveholder to the comparison.
[00:04:06]  As you can see, it had a tremendous surge during the civil rights era and was no doubt a reminder to white people about how bad their ancestors were and encouraged them to accept new laws and to get used to race preferences for blacks.
[00:04:22]  Slaveholder then began to drop out of sight, but started coming back in the 1990s.
[00:04:29]  This is what you get if you combine slaveholder and enslaver.
[00:04:34]  Isn't it curious that the further we get from real slaveholders, the more we talk about them?
[00:04:41]  There's no mystery in that.
[00:04:43]  Talking about slavery is one of the best ways to soften up white people for reparations, minority status, and general humiliation and dispossession.
[00:04:53]  Here's an interesting comparison.
[00:04:55]  The relative frequencies of negro capitalized and lowercase, all the way back to 1890.
[00:05:03]  As you can see back then, a lowercase n, the blue line, was more common, but uppercase n took off in the 1920s and hit its peak in 1970, and then crashed.
[00:05:16]  Negro suddenly went out of fashion.
[00:05:19]  You can throw in black for comparison.
[00:05:23]  It used to be mostly just a color, but as "negro" went out of fashion, it became a race, and it's gone from strength to strength.
[00:05:31]  Racism, as we know, almost always means bad white people.
[00:05:36]  Are there words for racism against white people?
[00:05:40]  I can think of only reverse racism and anti-white racism, and at least reverse racism is making a little headway.
[00:05:47]  But look at this.
[00:05:49]  Compared to racism, these words occur at a statistical rate of zero.
[00:05:55]  The right is no match for the left.
[00:05:59]  Let's have a little fun with some other expressions the left invented.
[00:06:03]  How about toxic masculinity?
[00:06:05]  It's a brand new discovery, coming along very nicely.
[00:06:09]  Let's add a few phobias, because as time goes on, we apparently become frightened of more and more things, such as transphobia, which is a young word, but off to a fine start.
[00:06:22]  To that, let us add Islamophobia, which was discovered about the same time, but is clearly a winner.
[00:06:29]  But it's a piker compared to xenophobia.
[00:06:32]  And look at that pedigree, all the way back to the 1930s.
[00:06:36]  Look out for homophobia, though, which lefties invented way back in the 1970s.
[00:06:42]  Look at this upstart.
[00:06:44]  Intersectionality. It wasn't heard of until 1995, but lefties now can't do without it.
[00:06:50]  Still, the leader of this pact remains white supremacy.
[00:06:55]  Of all the things we're supposed to hate, white supremacy is the worst.
[00:07:00]  Well, not quite.
[00:07:02]  Add the various spellings and capitalizations of anti-Semitism and look what you get.
[00:07:07]  My oh my, it's number one and nothing else comes close.
[00:07:11]  And the problem appears to be getting worse by the minute.
[00:07:15]  Even the perennial all-purpose racism there in blue is way behind.
[00:07:22]  Let's look at a few more ways the language has changed.
[00:07:25]  I'll take anti-Semitism and racism off the chart so you can see everything else better.
[00:07:31]  And instead, I'll add the homeless in blue.
[00:07:34]  As you can see, they got a lot of attention from about 1980 to 1995, but the order for them cooled, just as we discovered intersectionality, white supremacy, and assorted phobias.
[00:07:49]  And weren't there any homeless before 1980?
[00:07:52]  Of course.
[00:07:53]  But we call them bums, winos, derelicts.
[00:07:56]  They were all promoted to homeless.
[00:07:59]  Which is more sensitive, you see, and makes it sound as though they used to live in beautiful homes that blew down in a hurricane.
[00:08:06]  Here, for example, is how homeless person suddenly appeared around 1980 and has eclipsed wino.
[00:08:14]  Well, there's great news on mental retardation.
[00:08:18]  It looks like we've cured the problem.
[00:08:21]  Well, no.
[00:08:22]  We just changed the way we talk about it.
[00:08:24]  I figured the new sensitive lingo would be mental handicap.
[00:08:28]  and learning disability, but that doesn't really make up for it.
[00:08:32]  Apparently, the new expression is intellectual disability, though that doesn't seem to cover it either.
[00:08:39]  Maybe modern talk about autism and ADHD takes up some of the slack.
[00:08:44]  I suspect we are getting both mentally unhealthier and inventing more ways to talk about it.
[00:08:51]  So the left does tricky things with language.
[00:08:55]  It softens the words we use for people for whom the left thinks we don't care enough about.
[00:09:01]  Bums become the homeless, and mental retards have an intellectual disability.
[00:09:06]  But the real genius of the left is in deciding to hate something ancient and normal, inventing a new name for it, and calling it a moral failing.
[00:09:17]  It's normal to think homosexuality is abnormal.
[00:09:21]  And to hope your children don't turn out that way.
[00:09:24]  But now there is a moral failing known as homophobia.
[00:09:29]  It's normal to notice that foreigners are different from us and to prefer our own people, but that's xenophobia.
[00:09:36]  It's normal to notice race and to prefer one's own race, but that's racism, etc., etc.
[00:09:44]  We don't have words to describe normal people because we never needed words for them.
[00:09:50]  We don't have a special expression for people who put their pants on one leg at a time.
[00:09:55]  At least for now, there is no word that implies it is a crime to love your own children more than you love other people's children.
[00:10:03]  But it's easy to imagine some lefty, collectivist, child-rearing society in which it was a crime.
[00:10:11]  People who suffered from that disorder might be called familists and be scorned and cancelled.
[00:10:18]  And what would they call themselves?
[00:10:20]  There's no word for normal people.
[00:10:23]  It's the crazy new leftist disorders that need names.
[00:10:27]  You could call people who put the interests of other races or of foreigners ahead of theirs ethnomasochists or xenophiles, but Google Books has never heard of these words.
[00:10:40]  Good luck trying to popularize toxic femininity.
[00:10:44]  This is really just another way of measuring media dominance.

=== Orwell's Warning Evolved (00:24) ===

[00:10:49]  Those who control the words we use control the thoughts we think.
[00:10:53]  What did Orwell call the English language in 1946?
[00:10:58]  A catalog of swindles and perversions.
[00:11:01]  In this century, I would go further than Orwell when he said the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.