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SoonerPride Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-25-06 09:22 AM
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Campaign to redefine "right wing" as "wrong wing"
Edited on Fri Aug-25-06 09:33 AM by SoonerPride
In his latest book,

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586483862/sr=8-1/qid=1156515090/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-0779367-2119364?ie=UTF8 Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show, Geoffrey Nunberg, linguist often heard on NPR details the use and effectiveness of use of the language by those on the right.

From now on, I will only refer to those on the "right" as Wrong Wingers. No more "right wing" this or those on the "right." They are the wrong wing.

They are wrong for America. They are wrong on foreign policy.

Please join me in my campaign to redefine the right wing as the "wrong wing."

If enough people do it enough times it will become common usage and the term "right wing" will develop the kind of visceral revulsive response that many out there have for the term "liberal." In every forum, in every space public and private, refer to the "right wing" as the "wrong wing." It will catch on. Spread like wind fire. Change the language at its core. Call them a banana long enough and they will be a banana.

Call the "right wing" the "wrong wing" enough times and they will have come up with a new name for themselves and their movement.

Do it.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-25-06 09:32 AM
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1. Hello Sooner Pride and a belated Welcome to DU
Yes, they are so terribly wrong on so many issues and they care not about our troops, they care not about American Citizens. They are the party that forgot to care. As opposed to New Orleans which is the city that care forgot.
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KKKarl is an idiot Donating Member (662 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-25-06 09:35 AM
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2. The "wrong wing"
I love it. I will never use "right wing" when referring to them again.
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electropop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-25-06 09:35 AM
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3. Need to replace all the associated terminology:
For example, "on the right" becomes "in the wrong."

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