Has conservative thinking been too complacent about important English words being hijacked to obfuscate their meaning? After all, George Orwell warned that an attack on language is an attack on the truth of things. With his extraordinary prescience, he also said that the further society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.
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