Western doublespeak compilation
We all know that the west uses two different words for the same thing depending on where it is happening.
e.g. Secret Police vs Plainclothes Officer
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Regime vs Government
Can we have a compilation thread of these words? I am probably using many of them unconsciously without critical examination.
Literally Lebensraum
Our Manifest Destiny, their Lebensraum
(serious: I love Liebestraum; it's a beautiful piece /serious)
Hitler quotes the bath riots and the gas chambers on the american-mexican border as inspo for his own gas chambers.
oligarchy - entrepreneurs
invasion - humanitarian intervention
indoctrination - common sense
surveillance - CCTV
attacking free press - defending national security
racial profiling/transphobia - stopping cultural marxism
freedom fighters - terrorists
united states - america
football - soccer
Fascism and neoliberalism aren't mutually exclusive, though I see what you're getting at.
The video playback doesn't really work
There's just a kajillion of them:
Their Stasi Vs our neighborhood watch
Their whataboutism Vs our providing important context
Their unaccountable regime security forces Vs our police officer who feared for his safety
Their re-education Vs our cult deprogramming
Their GULAG Vs our federal bureau of prisons
Their prison camps Vs our prisons
Their authoritarianism vs our law and order.
Their warcrime vs our collateral damage.
Their dictator vs our leader.
Their reeducation vs our rehabilitation.
Their state media vs our public media.
The dictator vs our leader is huge. The way all westoid brained people talk about Putin, or Xi, or Kim like they have a personal relationship with them. They act like geopolitics is just based on these individuals personal whims
I'll start the thread.
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Billionaire vs Oligarch
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Custom vs Ritual
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Freedom fighter vs Terrorist
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Anime vs Cartoon
Internship vs unpaid labor
Defector/refugee - Illegal immigrant
Community service - Forced labor
Liberation - Occupation
Enhanced interrogation techniques - Torture
Community service is not forced labour 💀
You mean prison labour is forced labour. Community service is when they make dumbass teens arrested for something like vandalism or underage drinking, go and work at a soup kitchen, or pick up garbage off the side of the road as punishment.
Don't forget expat! They love that one.
Migrant vs refugee
Migrant vs expat
our 'hard-hitting journalism', their 'state-funded propaganda'
Their regime, our administration
The various ways they avoid using "oligarch" for westerns. Western Billionaire, entrepreneur, etc, whereas it's always "Russian Oligarchs."
On that note: "bribery" and "lobbying"
"Western philanthropist" vs "Russian Oligarch"
Another good one. Couldn't think of all the BS words they have to come up with to describe themselves.
our riots vs their protests for freedom
The Dictator's hand-picked successor.
The President's endorsement.
Expat / immigrant
Expat is a useful word, but it has been co-opted by those who very obviously aren’t expats and just don’t want to call themselves immigrants.
I do the reverse thing of calling myself an immigrant and you can see people having an error in their heads. Because I am an immigrant, I came here unemployed with nowhere to stay, looking for a better life. But I'm white, so expat it is for them 🤷
I think this isn't always true because they do mean different things. You're not an "immigrant" unless you're trying to stay there permanently, whereas "expats" can be sort of transient
Our prison, their prison camp
"internment camp" might be good to plug here
Defence contractor vs weapons manufacturer
Used depending on who's buying weapons from whom
Paid volunteers vs mercenaries
White nationalism vs white supremacist
security forces vs police
i like using that one about america, it makes liberals weirdly defensive lol
Aren’t security forces supposed to refer more to paramilitary units, such as military unites forced pushed into civilian policing services? Like occupation forces, civil protection units, or martial law units.
Or the other definition is police and military units working in concert.
Those feel a bit above the role of police alone.
In terms of Israel: Skirmishes vs terrorist attacks
freedom fighters vs terrorists
Media really had a field day with these over the last 20 years.
"If crime fighters fight crime, and firefighters fight fires, then what do freedom fighters fight?"
Assassination/targeted killing and mercenary/contractor legit make me furious. Up there with "enhanced interrogation".
Oh yeah mercenary/private military corporation contractor is insanity
Our routine missile test vs their provocative missile launch
Immigrant vs Expat
Savages committing human sacrifices vs Carrying out God's divine justice
gulag vs prison oligarch vs entrepreneur
First thing that comes to mind is "prison camps" vs just "prison." Will edit some more in when I remember them.
Army vs Horde
Humans vs terrans
I don’t think anyone’s seriously using that one except in movies
Coup vs popular uprising.
Cringe
no more half cringes walter
Hope you never have to go to a U.S. prison Joey
Prime minister and Supreme leader are literally synonyms yet have such wildly different implications.
Propaganda vs Public Relation Campaigns
From what I understand, Chinese use the same word for both.