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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] German politician successfully prosecuted for telling the
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Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 15:45:48 -0400
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On 5/23/2024 2:41 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article
> <17d212040b63de98$19324$3841210$c6d58c68@news.newsdemon.com>,
>   trotsky <gmsingh@email.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/22/24 5:56 PM, moviePig wrote:
>>> On 5/22/2024 6:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>> On May 22, 2024 at 9:57:02 AM PDT, "Rhino"
>>>> <no_offline_contact@example.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Once again, Leo Kearse hits it out of the park:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5uW1Htq7XU [10 minutes]
>>>>
>>>> She cited the government's own statistics and was prosecuted for it.
>>>>
>>>> Truth is now illegal.
>>>>
>>>> Orwell (and likely moviePig) would be proud.
>>>
>>> So, Orwell and I share some view or other?  Sounds okay...
> 
>> Such language described by Orwell is called doublespeak. It is explained
>> by William Lutz, author of the book "Doublespeak", as language which
>> "makes the bad seem good, the negative appear positive, the unpleasant
>> appear attractive or at least tolerable."
> 
> Just like "men are  women", "fat is healthy", "taxes can change the
> weather", and "free western societies are oppressors" while "murderous
> an oppressive Islamic theocracies are victims".

For "men are women", which one is bad, negative, and/or unpleasant?