A big part of the psychology of tyranny is control of language. That's what is so nefarious about PC, and in the other thread about the NYC schools simply striking entire words as if they no longer exist. It's why the E-GOP's limpwristed response in the culture war, you know, the purely mechanical game they play of letting the Left initiate moves and then reacting to them, is doomed to fail. You can be a chess master and still lose when your opponent is allowed to define what everything means.
The East German government referred to the Berlin Wall as the "Antifaschistischer Schutzwall", the Anti-Fascist Protection Wall. The Soviets had a similarly cynical term for the oppressive communist satellite regimes they forced onto the people of eastern Europe. It's always, always, always couched in the language of safety and security.
I hatez these people.
