What Were Robespierre’s Pronouns? The French Revolution was led by sociopaths who politicized language, much like today’s Jacobins.

The French Revolution was led by sociopaths who politicized language, much like today’s Jacobins.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Opinion, by Peggy Noonan — July 25, 2019

Excerpts:

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We often make historical parallels here. History doesn’t repeat itself but it does rhyme, as clever people say. And sometimes it hiccups. Here is a hiccup.

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It was a revolution largely run by sociopaths. One, Robespierre, the “messianic schoolmaster,” saw it as an opportunity for the moral instruction of the nation. Everything would be politicized, no part of the citizen’s life left untouched. As man was governed by an “empire of images,” in the words of a Jacobin intellectual, the new régime would provide new images to shape new thoughts. There would be pageants, and new names for things. They would change time itself! The first year of the new Republic was no longer 1792, it was Year One. To detach farmers from their superstitions, their Gregorian calendar and its saints’ days, they would rename the months. The first month would be in the fall, named for the harvest. There would be no more weeks, just three 10-day periods each month.

So here is our parallel, our hiccup. I thought of all this this week because I’ve been thinking about the language and behavioral directives that have been coming at us from the social and sexual justice warriors who are renaming things and attempting to control the language in America.

There is the latest speech guide from the academy, the Inclusive Communications Task Force at Colorado State University. Don’t call people “American,” it directs: “This erases other cultures.” Don’t say a person is mad or a lunatic, call him “surprising/wild” or “sad.” “Eskimo,” “freshman” and “illegal alien” are out. “You guys” should be replaced by “all/folks.” Don’t say “male” or “female”; say “man,” “woman” or “gender non-binary.”

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View the complete article at:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-were-robespierres-pronouns-11564095088


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5 Responses to What Were Robespierre’s Pronouns? The French Revolution was led by sociopaths who politicized language, much like today’s Jacobins.

  1. Interesting article. I see the parallel. Thanks for posting Bruce!

  2. Bruce Steadman says:

    @ Lucas Daniel Smith:
    I think Peggy Noonan, the author of the WSJ opinion piece, is very insightful and intelligent. The referenced article is certainly a good example of this. Unfortunately, she is also part of the ‘NWO Elite’ and has been listed in attendance at the Bilderberg conferences.

    See: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/11590-us-bilderberg-attendees-violating-federal-law-activists-say

    Excerpt:

    As a shadowy collection of the world’s power brokers gathers in Chantilly, Virginia, for the elite Bilderberg conference this weekend under unprecedented media scrutiny, activists from across the political spectrum are arguing that U.S. citizens attending the controversial confab are potentially committing a felony by violating the Logan Act. And while the chances of charges being brought anytime soon are probably slim, anti-Bilderberg protesters admit, more than a few critics of the meeting are still loudly calling for federal prosecutions to bring any and all perpetrators to justice.

    The yearly gathering includes media magnates, titans of industry, top bankers, influential politicians, royalty and nobility, prominent academics, military and “intelligence” chieftains, and many other members of the so-called “global elite.” And the 2012 conference is no different. According to a guest list released by the group — which analysts who study Bilderberg say typically omits certain key participants — there are about 50 Americans in attendance, all of them extraordinarily influential. Other participants hailed mostly from Europe, though even a high-ranking official from the Communist dictatorship ruling China was in attendance this year.

    The legal problem raised by critics is that federal law specifically bars any U.S. citizen without government permission from working with foreign officials on matters of policy. Passed under the John Adams administration in 1799, the Logan Act was amended as recently as the 1990s and, despite almost never being used, remains on the books today. And that, Bilderberg opponents say, means that Americans meeting with foreign officials at the secretive gathering should be investigated and eventually prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

  3. Bruce Steadman says:

    @ Lucas Daniel Smith:

    Also of interest and importance, I think, in case you missed them:

    (1) Let’s look into Obama the way they’ve looked at me. — Let’s subpoena all of his records.” https://www.wasobamaborninkenya.com/blog/lets-look-into-obama-the-way-theyve-looked-at-me-lets-subpoena-all-of-his-records/

    (2) I CALL JULY 26, 2019 ‘THE END OF THE BEGINNING’ for Kenyan-Born Liar, Fraud and Imposter, Barack Hussein Obama IIhttps://www.wasobamaborninkenya.com/blog/the-voice-of-reason-shall-triumph-over-the-voice-of-treason/

  4. @ Bruce Steadman:

    I see now (about her being part of the NWO Elite). Looking further into Peggy Noonan. Thanks Bruce!

  5. Bruce Steadman wrote:

    @ Lucas Daniel Smith:

    Also of interest and importance, I think, in case you missed them:

    (1) Let’s look into Obama the way they’ve looked at me. — Let’s subpoena all of his records.” —

    (2) I CALL JULY 26, 2019 ‘THE END OF THE BEGINNING’ for Kenyan-Born Liar, Fraud and Imposter, Barack Hussein Obama II —

    Thanks Bruce! Taking a look at these now too.

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