Double speak

After reading examples of doublespeak in 1984, is when I actually started noticing doublespeak in our society a lot. but, I found one example to be extremely interesting. Winston says that the government executing people is not killing them but "vaporizing" them. saying the word vaporize is a lot cleaner and friendlier than saying killed slaughtered or murdered and can probably go undetected by most people. The way they use doublespeak makes their actions seem alot less server than they actually are. one night after watching the movie Hotel Rwanda, I finally caught the craziest example of doublespeak. When a genocide infests a country and starts to kill thousands of people, in order to keep other countries from getting involved and so other countries do not have to involve themselves, they refer to a genocide as "a civil war". and i guess if you are an outsider looking in, it looks like a civil war because you have one half of the country fighting another. except, the other side is getting wiped off the face of the planet and isn't trying to fight back. and then after a genocide is over and every country doesn't want to feel guilty about not intervining, they say it will "never happen again" and in textbooks can be referred to as a mass "ethinic cleansing".  Calling a mass killing of people definietly sounds alot better when you use doublespeak, because when you are a country who is not involved, it doesn't sound like a serious enough of a problem and if it is called a civil war you can't get involved at all. And, odds are, genocide is going to happen again. and when it does, we will continue to see more and more use of wonderful doublespeak, and millions of more people being "cleansed" and "vaporized,".

IN CLASS OPTION: What about you would the Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glombers, handicap?

I think that everyone would have basic handicaps. weights on ankles, to keep from being able to faster or more elegant. But, if i were to be handicapped I think I would have an earpiece in my ear, because i like to read and write and develop my own opinions, and i would probably have a lot of weights on my arms because i love to bake and write and stuff like that, so i think arm weights would limit my ablities to bake well and to be able to write too much. I also love to sing, so i would have to have some type of handicap for my voice as well.

Blog #2

I believe that the only propaganda that can be beneficial is propaganda that targets your moral character. any type of propaganda that influence's you to do something morally just, is positive. and, honestly, I have seen nothing but positive children's propaganda. The ages 0-5 are when children are the most easy influenced by their experiences and surroundings. And almost all children's propaganda is positive. I especially like Takes two to Tango, because it teaches young children to socially accept homosexuality. The author of the article we read in class was against the article because the author "didn't want our children becoming political figures" The author also noted multiple times that they are Christian and more Christains do not believe in gay marriage. Honestly, religion has nothing to do with politics or a children's book. It's about love. And that book does nothing but give a positive image to Gay marriage and homosexuality. All children's books have propaganda and that book was positive. I wish all propaganda could be like that.