"Revisionist"

[mburbank]

Somewhere some idiot 'strategist' convened a focus group, have them a light snack and a facilitator, stared at them through a mirror every one of the participants knew was one way glass, fed them a light snack and came away with the word 'revisionist'.

Within hours the entire administration had been instructed to denude this word of it's meaning and use it as a synonym for people with opinions other than their own, as if at soome point in the fairlly recent past their had been unanimous consent.


That person got paid a lot of a lot of money and as they are almost certainly a salaried employee of the government, it was probably tax dollars.

[Anti-Xocial]

What "revisionist" Max? Has there been conducted some type of psychological examination or tests on individuals? Or is this one of those "Think-Tank" things?

(btw, try and say "Think Tank Things" ten times :eek )

edit: please excuse me (and explain why) if these are "stupid" questions.

[Abcdxxxx]

Or maybe it's the other way around, and the word "revitionist" has been stripped of all it's weight for a purpose... so that actual revitionists (because even when over used it's still a valid term that has yet to be replaced by a more suitable less trendy one) can devalue the lessons that are to be learned in the wake of certain events. Unless that's what you were saying, in which case I'm just being a revisionist.

[GAsux]

I think both of you should seriously consider revising your previous assertions.

[mburbank]

Abcdxx, that's pretty much what I'm saying.

Anti Macassar or whatever your name is, I'm making an educated guess that the administration relentless use of the word 'revisionist' is a message product arrived at by focus group.

I find it hard to believe that Rice, Chenney, Bush and Rumsfeld all though up using it five or six times an interview just by chance. The same technique is used during stump speeches by hack politicians (read almost all of them) and advertisers.

[Anti-Xocial]

Granted, it was a stupid question on my behalf, but I just had no idea what the post was about... :/

I have worked with children for the most of 14 years and if there is a keyword to define how learning and indoctrination takes place, I think that word would be "repetition". The dubya administration, like all the previous administrations, repeats words, terms and concepts over and over again, with the sole intent of brainwashing the "nation".

"The Axis of Evil" I don't know how many times bush managed to say the word "Evil" (since 9/11), but the intent of making Muslims (and Islam) seem "Evil" seems to be a definite possibility. Sadly, as ignorance leads the way, this psychological angle to re-programming the way people think (by constantly repeating) starts to work.

Duke and his triple-k's have been using the same psychology for years, by purposely telling people that the holocaust (WW II) never took place!!!! Thank goodness, people were not as stupid as he or his followers had hoped!

[Abcdxxxx]

I tune out Bush and Co. as much as possible, but there HAS been some revitionism of late with people speaking of Saddam in a positive light.

[mburbank]

I'm not aware of anything beyond Iraqis saying "At least I had electricity all day", but then I tune out quite a bit lately as well.

In any case, this is not what Bushco means when they trot out the dread "R" word. They act as if at some imaginary point in the past there was no disagreement at all on the march to war.

[The Retro Kat]

Weren't the revisionists a group of Marxists from the late teens that beleived that they could acheive socialism through climbing the ladder of the government and working their way to the top?


...As opposed to the pure Marxists, who beleived the revolution would only be won through violence and revolt.

[VinceZeb]

It's like seeing fish trying to get that last gasp of oxygen. If this is the only thing you can bash Bush on, well, your peeps are in trouble.

[mburbank]

How could this be the only thing, when you routinely criticize us for bashing Bush about a few hundred other things?

Hey, here's tip, Vinthy. Stay out of threads that are about language until you learn to write one.