"leftist" NPR aligns with National Review, comes out against "social justice" & "sustainability"

[Hannah Bell]

"The apparently harmless lingo of the Left can't be taken at face value. It needs an English translation."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124811450


"What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people....To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me—unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these ‘little measures’ that no ‘patriotic German’ could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head."

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html

[cali]

1. there is nothing leftist about NPR and the

only people that claim that are those on the right.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. The huge irony of a National Review writer accusing others of manipulating language,

when it's a publication that has spent decades demonising words like 'liberal', seems to be lost on the editors at NPR who have published crap like this under their name. The NRO writer says 'Beck was wildly off base linking "social justice" (of either form) to Communism and Nazism', but NRO's "editor-at-large" wrote an entire book called "Liberal Fascism". Beck is just doing on his TV show what Jonah Goldberg and NRO have done for years.

[blindpig]

3. National Propaganda Radio

k&r