Framing the issues
Giovanni posted an interesting article in the comments of the previous news item and Barney quite rightly suggested it should come up for discussion in its own right. In the article and the follow-up article, Linguistics professor George Lakoff looks at how conservatives use language to dominate politics… the articles deal with American politics, but many of the issues transfer easily to Australian politics.
The articles support a lot of the ideas that were discussed earlier on kilbot.net, including Gawain’s proposition for a Left-wing think tank and Fancy’s call for a campaign to reverse this misnomer of lefties being elitist… Lakoff doesn’t discuss my LSD theory explicitly, but he’s from UC Berkeley so you know he would agree.
