Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Power of Naming. Labels. For accountability, aspiration.

Gristmill. By Dint:

For transparency in communications, require labels. Name the type of beast about to come at you.  The power of naming. A Label or a Name as a tool of control. Power of labels. Power of naming.

Certification of Qualified Newscasters.
Label the news products. Truth in labeling. Label the people disseminating the words. Counter stealth propaganda. Label degrees of objective news from opinion and propaganda; Certify airwaves people on the same scale. What percent of objective fact (protein), or energy maker (carbs, polarize-demonize), or hipspreaders (fat, propaganda).  Require documentation of sources and facts relied upon if the product wants a truth label.. .

Naming as Power

Power of Names and Naming
Pay attention to names and labels. Choices in Naming can create the reality that later develops. Take no naming lightly. Its power:  Name the cow and it gives more milk. Is that so?  Naming a person as an individual: does that promote humanity; or keep the person unnamed, the "other" - with no name ascribed, is he easier to call a  "terrorist."

Plain Meaning of "Hutaree" - the Militia Group 
Hutaree is a militia group, far-right wing.  Parse out alternate meanings from syllables.  Any light shed? Go see.

Labeling, naming as a weapon.

R-Word as Fighting Words
Labeling is a means of control. Control is to label by a condition or other attribute. That R_________. Labels dehumanize. Can we stop the use of "reee-tard" to define the intellectually disabled. The differently abled will cheer.

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