Article: Taking Orwellian Liberties With Ordinary Language.(Editorial)

On those occasions when I sit down to try to figure out what motivates our benighted opposition, honestly, I really try my best to extend them the benefit of the doubt. Not only does that help keep me intellectually from becoming slovenly, we are indeed foolhardy if we too readily dismiss arguments that many people find persuasive.

But the truth is that since so much of what they say is sheer sophistry, we can dispense with the idea they actually believe what they say except on rare occasions. What other explanation might there be for their behavior?

Perhaps they've persuaded themselves that their cause is so right - - it "liberates women," etc., etc. - ...

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