{"id":583965,"date":"2021-07-06T13:20:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T17:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=583965"},"modified":"2021-07-06T13:20:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T17:20:53","slug":"knowles-how-the-looters-got-away-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/knowles-how-the-looters-got-away-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"KNOWLES: How The Looters Got Away With It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fknowles-how-the-looters-got-away-with-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=583965&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1216832994.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Prosecutors in Manhattan and the Bronx have recently liberated hundreds of justice-involved youths who faced potential legal consequences for their participation last year in mostly peaceful protests aimed at dismantling systems of oppression. If you don\u2019t speak \u201cwoke\u201d \u2014 the new name for the same old scourge of political correctness \u2014 all that piffle means the city let looters off the hook. Meanwhile, prosecutors are preparing to hold insurrectionists and traitors accountable for their attempted <em>coup d\u2019\u00e9tat&nbsp;<\/em>at the Capitol on January 6 \u2014 or, in English, the feds are throwing the book at trespassers in horn helmets who made a mess of Nancy Pelosi\u2019s desk and stole her lectern.<\/p>\n<p>The power of political correctness lies not merely in what leftists insist we cannot say but also what they make us say instead. Polite societies use euphemisms. We refer to old women as \u201cwomen of a certain age.\u201d We mourn those who have \u201cpassed away\u201d rather than those who died. In prior ages, ladies went to \u201cpowder their nose\u201d and still use the \u201cbathroom\u201d or the \u201crestroom\u201d rather than the toilet. Those euphemisms soften harsh realities, but they don\u2019t contradict them. The old woman is indeed a woman of a certain age. The poetical \u201cpassing away\u201d describes the spiritual fact of death. Women may indeed powder their noses after they\u2019ve done whatever else they would do in rooms that often include a bath and in which anyone might rest.<\/p>\n<p>Political correctness goes further, not merely softening reality but inverting it \u2014 a process I describe in my new <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3qzrZIC\">book<\/a> <em>Speechless<\/em>. A \u201cjustice-involved youth\u201d \u2014 formerly known as a juvenile delinquent \u2014 is not involved with justice but rather injustice, no matter how the woke wordsmiths want to spin him. Yet one can no longer call a spade a spade. One can hardly even utter the phrase \u201cto call a spade a spade\u201d without being accused of racism by the most excitable speech police. These linguistic enforcers punish perpetrators of political incorrectness through \u201ccancel culture.\u201d But they focus most of their efforts on making sure transgressions never take place at all.<\/p>\n<p>Brandeis University\u2019s \u201cPrevention, Advocacy, &amp; Resource Center\u201d offers an extensive, if not exhaustive, \u201coppressive language list\u201d to warn students, faculty, and staff of which words to avoid and how they ought to replace them. \u201cPARC recognizes that language is a powerful tool that can be used to perpetuate oppression,\u201d the center begins without the slightest hint of self-awareness. Brandeis sorts the taboo terms into five categories: \u201cviolent language,\u201d \u201cidentity-based language,\u201d \u201cculturally appropriative language,\u201d \u201cperson-first alternatives,\u201d and \u201clanguage that doesn\u2019t say what we mean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latter category is the most amusing because it ironically describes the entire project of political correctness. \u201cUsing euphemisms, vagueness, and inaccurate words can get in the way of meaningful dialogue,\u201d the oblivious center warns before instructing readers to replace clear language with vague euphemisms. \u201cHimself\u201d and \u201cherself\u201d must become the illiterate \u201cthemself.\u201d \u201cFemale-identifying\u201d \u2014 itself a concession to woke ideology \u2014 now becomes simply \u201cwoman,\u201d even if the female-identifying individual is a man. A \u201chomeless person,\u201d Brandeis informs us, should now be called a \u201cperson experiencing housing insecurity\u201d \u2014 a phrase that doubles down on the denial of moral agency once acknowledged in tramps and bums.<\/p>\n<p>No reasonable person objects to mercy for peaceful protesters or women in the ladies\u2019 room. But descriptors be damned, the protesters in question aren\u2019t peaceful, and the ladies aren\u2019t women. The Left can censor speech with its institutional power in classrooms, boardrooms, media platforms, and the halls of government. More insidious still, leftists can redefine our very perception of reality by smuggling in whole premises through the subtle transformation of the words that make us say, encouraging cacophony while they steal our capacity for meaningful speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors in Manhattan and the Bronx have recently liberated hundreds of justice-involved youths who faced potential legal consequences for their participation last year in mostly peaceful protests aimed at dismantling &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314080,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1216832994.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"KNOWLES: How The Looters Got Away With It","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1216832994.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"KNOWLES: How The Looters Got Away With It","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}