" Ziegler was duly honored for this contortion, in 1974, by The Committee on Public Doublespeak at its first "Doublespeak Awards.
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Conservative doublespeak just got taken to a whole new level.
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" Instead, she predicts, "Kavanaugh's hearings will be full of doublespeak.
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Yet the prime minister was engaging in doublespeak all along.
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It's a racial doublespeak that sometimes evades more than explains.
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Political doublespeak is often the name of the game in Congress.
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President Trump, we know you're a master of doublespeak and verbal jousting.
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German statements on defense spending this week have been tinged with doublespeak.
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But the threat of violence under the banner of doublespeak was unmistakable.
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The doublespeak often befuddles diplomats engaged in talks with Pakistani civilian government officials.
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For decades tech bosses have pushed a convenient doublespeak to explain their firms' rise.
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The party has built a reputation for secrecy, doublespeak and antagonism to critical coverage.
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But has there ever been a phrase more indicative of political doublespeak than "Alternative Facts"?
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In the midst of this muck of doublespeak and prevarication, her own words rise, anthemic.
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Paul, the rest of us do not have to participate in that kind of disgusting doublespeak.
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Yet they say that they support environmental policies at the same time—the doublespeak is extraordinary.
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Adobe CTO's tech doublespeak at Adobe Max was nearly impossible to glean any real information from.
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" In Russia, Ms. Khrushcheva said, "it's not what is on the surface, it's doublespeak, triple-think.
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So I urge you to push back against this creepy conservative doublespeak in three concrete ways:1.
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He went on to share a story about actor David Hasselhoff that he thinks captures the doublespeak.
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We want to dredge up an excuse or mere doublespeak ("re-accommodating" for roughing up an elderly passenger).
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We have about five more months of attack ads, Twitter fights and political doublespeak to look forward to.
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The place is, to use Lyons's references, a hash of Orwellian doublespeak, the movie "Office Space" and Scientology.
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If their rebrand is slightly prone to paradox, then Weight Watchers' is a case of all-out doublespeak.
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Math is one of the few institutions we have left free of doublespeak or embellishment or biased opinion.
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Ivanka Trump's doublespeak is glaringly on display here, as it has been throughout her work with her father's administration.
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These polo shirts are a nefarious doublespeak that says: We are decent but we are capable of disgusting things.
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If only more of us would fight to have these truths heard over Donald Trump's constant stream of "doublespeak".
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"I think a lot of people who are concerned about climate change just see this as doublespeak," he said.
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A film about secrets naturally is full of doublespeak dialogue, where people say one thing but actually mean something else.
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Even its name smacks of 2000-esque doublespeak, as "bed" implies a kind of hospitable sojourn rather than indeterminate incarceration.
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What were the Emmys thinking celebrating this modern day Goebbels, who was the thuggish face of Orwellian doublespeak just moments ago?
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The result is titled "Bankspeak," a play on doublespeak, referring to language that is intentionally ambiguous, meant to obscure or confuse.
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" He says Mr. Trump squeaked through because people were tired of the "Bush-Clinton continuum" for 30 years and political "doublespeak.
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There has been no repudiation, let alone denunciation, of what was said in those emails; just denial, finger-pointing and doublespeak.
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Gig-economy companies such as Deliveroo are increasingly coining a sort of doublespeak in order to explain their oft-critiqued work practices.
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Fury: Demna, do you find it difficult to think in doublespeak, to have an attitude for Vetements and an attitude for Balenciaga?
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"All we get is bureaucratic doublespeak, indifference and excuse-making," said Frank Sharry, executive director of the immigration advocacy group America's Voice.
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But, for a blessed hour each night before bedtime, I leave presidential doublespeak and enter the much more wonderful shapeshifting of crafty Odysseus.
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The Merriam-Webster Dictionary is back at it, weighing in on the latest political doublespeak coming from President Donald Trump and his aides.
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Tellingly, the new CAP government healthcare plan would essentially eliminate the popular Medicare Advantage program, replacing it with "Medicare Choice," which is Orwellian doublespeak.
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In "1984," the government of Orwell's Big Brother spoke in "doublespeak," language perverted to obscure the truth or actually turn it on its head.
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One benefit of the Trump era is there's less doublespeak than before — it's clearer than ever when someone is malicious and pleased with it.
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Within days of his taking office, copies of George Orwell's "1984," the legendary story of an authoritarian world of government doublespeak, sold out on Amazon.
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Translated into doublespeak: oil prices are too high; but they may not fall, in large part because big oil producers have got used to them.
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France is a country of race- and class-blind political discourse couched in the obfuscating doublespeak referred to as la langue de bois ("wooden tongue").
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But of course, in the tradition of doublespeak, they were using that as a way of sliming the truth with their own politically tailored narratives.
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DONALD MENDERRHINEBECK, N.Y. To the Editor: Mark Penn and Andrew Stein offer a breathtaking example of Orwellian doublespeak and historical rewriting for their own ends.
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This kind of doublespeak is par for the course in the world of corporate wellness, where avoiding a financial penalty is often framed as getting a discount.
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The goal was to subvert lowbrow doublespeak with clever turns of phrase that made fun of the product being sold or revealed the truth behind the slogan.
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There's something potent in the idea of corporate doublespeak infecting this universe, of companies saying the right things in order to cover up their own horrible actions.
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First Words Any time we're listening to a politician speak, it really helps to be fluent in politics: There's so much euphemism, so much parrying and doublespeak.
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Instead of addressing the questions New Yorkers have raised about Amazon's forthcoming expansion, Cuomo, de Blasio, and Glen are all using condescending doublespeak to dismiss their constituents' concerns.
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The term "Orwellian" has always struck me as curiously Orwellian — a mild example of doublespeak that ties an author's good name to the dystopia he so memorably depicted.
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Paige is struggling, but it's the kind of struggle she can't talk about it, can't truly share with anyone without wading through layers of second-guessing and doublespeak.
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But I think to say that questioning her stances on issues that actively perpetuated criminalization of black and brown communities—to say that's racist and sexist is doublespeak.
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And Chinese negotiators, already frustrated with Washington doublespeak and insisting that tariffs be removed would likely walk from negotiations, says Stephen Myrow, managing partner at Beacon Policy Advisors.
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Beijing granted more authority to managers of state-owned companies and set out to blend a measure of unabashed — if disguised, through ideological doublespeak — capitalism with a centralized economy.
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Images of children in cages now amplified by the voice of the majority of our Supreme Court countenancing the most heinous of motives in doublespeak and pretzel-bending logic.
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The reason for this doublespeak is that Canada's proposed Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change depends on the participation of Alberta, where the tar sands are located.
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" He's not a 'racist,' he's a 'racialist' I first became aware of this racial doublespeak when I heard someone describe another person not as a racist but as a "racialist.
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The group show, Doublespeak: Yale MFA Photography 2017 features photography that explores the individual concerns of the future photographic voices who will work to expand their practices and challenge the medium.
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The question, then, becomes how one reads such rhetoric: whether cultural "integration" is a valid cultural ideal, or whether the doublespeak on integration amounts to a sort of racist bad faith.
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It is easy, and maybe accurate, to dismiss this as the kind of self-contradiction and doublespeak that is the Republicans' stock-in-trade, but it is also more than that.
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However, describing a bill that would permit renditions to China -- a country whose leader, Xi Jinping, has categorically rejected judicial independence -- as strengthening the rule of law is not merely cynical doublespeak.
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But, unlike that particular incident of doublespeak or her bizarre tip-toeing of ethics rules by endorsing Ivanka Trump's fashion brand on a national news channel, Conway seems to be innocent, this time.
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Ivanka Trump's statement is a kind of doublespeak: She claims to support equal pay -- and has even tweeted about it -- but the administration's move will create an environment in which the opposite happens.
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He's a straight-talking diplomat seemingly comfortable with the Orwellian doublespeak required to survive the Trump administration, particularly as he now takes positions as a cabinet secretary that Congressman Pompeo would once have lambasted.
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In 1984, the book by George Orwell that's enjoying a resurgence in relevancy due to Trump's Doublespeak, also used game shows as a way to control the masses by keeping them complacent and distracted.
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At first glance this openness suggests a real break from the Nixon stonewalling model, but a glance through recent history suggests Trump may just be more adept than Nixon when it comes to doublespeak.
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But political doublespeak is precisely what Republican voters are sick of—especially those voters who have flocked to Donald Trump, who couldn't concoct an excuse about voter fraud or state finance if he wanted to.
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Instead, it's a cruel joke, a doublespeak concept that only serves to excuse and amplify inequities between the haves and have-nots, the athletes and the administrators they serve, perpetuating a system of suppression and exploitation.
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This is a not a moment for spin, deflection, justification, circling the wagons, forgetting, moving along to the next news cycle or for more of Orwell's doublespeak," Flake said, referring to George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984.
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The press release is filled with a kind of doublespeak that bends the perception of players' free will—not to mention the will of the NFL Players Association (NFLPA)—toward the will of the league's corporate strategy.
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But things take a turn when Roman, Jamie, and Karl land in Turkey and a few minutes into their pitch, a hostage situation with all of the formality and doublespeak of a typical business meeting begins to unfold.
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At the same time, we've grown dangerously inured to pious doublespeak — whether it's the politician claiming to stand for the family while engaging in multiple extramarital affairs or the corporation that combines feminist ads with hostile work environments.
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So long as Trump says the right things at the right time to the right crowds, he'll never be held accountable for his doublespeak or for defending the very things the conservative movement has been fighting against for years.
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There may be a grain of truth in that narrative, but one of the reasons why Trump is so flexible is that he knows he has these voters' unconditional support—and that it will take more than doublespeak to break that bond.
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Perhaps Mr. Trump "misspoke," as he described it, because he's a relatively recent convert to the cause, unfamiliar with the doublespeak in which forcing women to give birth is a form of love, and punishment is the last thing on the anti-abortion movement's mind.
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That's quite a difference from the ad Buzzfeed spotted, which reads, in all caps, "....WE WILL BUILD A WALL (NOT A FENCE) ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE UNITED STATES..." It's precisely that doublespeak that makes people fearful of this new age of advertising when applied to the presidency.
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The book's political doublespeak has become a foundational reference for angry liberal moms writing anti-Trump Facebook screeds, and that whole "technology as a means for fascistic control" was pretty prescient back at a time when computers were building-sized and televisions worked thanks to magical glowing tubes.
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A significant portion of those lives came from the poor and working class—the same demographic that would come to believe, 50 years later, that they finally have a champion in the White House, a champion who, for all his faults, is a straight-shooter, someone who avoids the doublespeak so common to typical politicians.
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We live in an era when many of the genre's most far-reaching prophecies have come true, from radical inequality and authoritarian doublespeak to irreversible climate change and unsettling breakthroughs in AI. Dystopian fiction is inherently political, but it also gained steam because it was good entertainment, an escapist adventure into the frightening hypothetical consequences of human frailty.
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"The doublespeak that is being used by folks on Trump's legal team — and Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE himself — is really scary stuff," the former GOP communications director added.
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I can't wait to read the eventual book, I Too Was Secretly Dismayed the Whole Time, Also: A Memoir of Service Op-Ed: I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration But Am Not Actually Trying to Stop Him Because I Also Want to Kill the Poor The odd doublespeak inspired parodies from Slate and McSweeney's, and a litany of memes drawn from pop culture: remember when the ny times had standards pic.twitter.
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In 1984, George Orwell wrote his imagined dystopian regime "told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears," but Fox News has actually figured out a tactic even more pernicious: Fox News' own masters of Orwellian doublespeak, its Hannitys, Carlsons, and Doocys, the ones who smugly declare down up and up down, aren't even bothering to tell their viewers to ignore their eyes and ears, because the truth never even approaches their airtime.
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In such cases, doublespeak disguises the nature of the truth. Doublespeak is most closely associated with political language.Herman, 1992. The word is comparable to George Orwell's Newspeak and Doublethink as used in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four, though the term Doublespeak does not appear there.
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Hugh Rank helped form the Doublespeak committee in 1971 and was its first chairman. Under his editorship, the committee produced a book called Language and Public Policy (1974), with the aim of informing readers of the extensive scope of doublespeak being used to deliberately mislead and deceive the audience. He highlighted the deliberate public misuses of language and provided strategies for countering doublespeak by focusing on educating people in the English language so as to help them identify when doublespeak is being put into play. He was also the founder of the Intensify/Downplay pattern that has been widely used to identify instances of doublespeak being used.
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Doublespeak is often used by politicians for the advancement of their agenda. The Doublespeak Award is an "ironic tribute to public speakers who have perpetuated language that is grossly deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, confusing, or self-centered." It has been issued by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) since 1974. The recipients of the Doublespeak Award are usually politicians, national administration or departments.
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William D. Lutz has served as the third chairman of the Doublespeak Committee since 1975. In 1989, both his own book Doublespeak and, under his editorship, the committee's third book, Beyond Nineteen Eighty-Four, were published. Beyond Nineteen Eighty-Four consists of 220 pages and eighteen articles contributed by long-time Committee members and others whose bodies of work have contributed to public understanding about language, as well as a bibliography of 103 sources on doublespeak. Lutz was also the former editor of the now defunct Quarterly Review of Doublespeak, which examined the use of vocabulary by public officials to obscure the underlying meaning of what they tell the public.
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Daniel Dieterich served as the second chairman of the Doublespeak committee after Hugh Rank in 1975. He served as editor of its second publication, Teaching about Doublespeak (1976), which carried forward the Committee's charge to inform teachers of ways of teaching students how to recognize and combat language designed to mislead and misinform.
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The term "doublespeak" originates in George Orwell's book "1984" (Nineteen Eighty-Four). Although the term is not used in the book, it is a close relative of two of the book's central concepts, "doublethink" and "Newspeak". Another variant, "doubletalk", also referring to deliberately ambiguous speech, did exist at the time Orwell wrote his book, but the usage of "doublespeak", as well as of "doubletalk", in the sense emphasizing ambiguity clearly postdates the publication of Nineteen Eighty- Four. Parallels have also been drawn between doublespeak and Orwell's classic essay Politics and the English Language, which discusses the distortion of language for political purposes.
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Doublespeak is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs and "servicing the target" for bombing), in which case it is primarily meant to make the truth sound more palatable. It may also refer to intentional ambiguity in language or to actual inversions of meaning.
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The Doublespeak Award is an "ironic tribute to public speakers who have perpetuated language that is grossly deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, confusing, or self-centered", i.e. those who have engaged in doublespeak. It has been issued by the National Council of Teachers of English since 1974. Nominees must be from the US, though in 1975 the award was given to Yasser Arafat.
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Use of doublespeak in advertisements resulted in aspirin production rates rising by almost 50 percent from over 23 million pounds in 1960 to over 35 million pounds in 1970.
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Some schools of psychotherapy such as cognitive therapy encourage people to alter their own thoughts as a way of treating different psychological maladies (see cognitive distortions). Orwell's "doublethink" is also credited with having inspired the commonly used term "doublespeak", which itself does not appear in the book. Comparisons have been made between doublespeak and Orwell's descriptions on political speech from his essay "Politics and the English Language", in which "unscrupulous politicians, advertisers, religionists, and other doublespeakers of whatever stripe continue to abuse language for manipulative purposes".
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He also highlights the structural nature of doublespeak, and notes that the mass media and other social institutions employ an active, downward-aimed approach in managing the opinions of society at large: Doublespeak also has close connections with some contemporary theories. Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky comment in their book Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media that Orwellian doublespeak is an important component of the manipulation of the English language in American media, through a process called dichotomization, a component of media propaganda involving "deeply embedded double standards in the reporting of news." For example, the use of state funds by the poor and financially needy is commonly referred to as "social welfare" or "handouts," which the "coddled" poor "take advantage of." These terms, however, are not as often applied to other beneficiaries of government spending such as military spending.
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It can also serve to disguise or distort meaning as with doublespeak. "Kinetic activity" as a buzzword for combat, in use since the inception of the War on Terror, has been criticized as a don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy for murder.
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Downplaying is commonly done via omission, diversion and confusion as they communicate in words, gestures, numbers, et cetera. Individuals can better cope with organized persuasion by recognizing the common ways whereby communication is intensified or downplayed, so as to counter doublespeak.
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France recognized Haitian independence in 1825. This recognition was indirect, "masked by a degree of doublespeak that would have made Talleyrand proud", and only transpired after a Haiti paid huge reparations.Brown, p.294 However, Haiti was able to open normal relations with their former colonizers.
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Thank God for the atom bomb and other essays. New York Summit Books confirmed his war against governmental and military doublespeak and prepared the way for Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989).Fussell, P. (1989). Wartime: Understanding and behavior in the second world war.
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A. M. Tibbetts is one of the main critics of the NCTE, claiming that "the Committee's very approach to the misuse of language and what it calls 'doublespeak' may in the long run limit its usefulness". According to him, the "Committee's use of Orwell is both confused and confusing". The NCTE's publications resonate with George Orwell's name, and allusions to him abound in statements on doublespeak; for example, the committee quoted Orwell's remark that "language is often used as an instrument of social control" in Language and Public Policy. Tibbetts argues that such a relation between NCTE and Orwell's work is contradictory because "the Committee's attitude towards language is liberal, even radical" while "Orwell's attitude was conservative, even reactionary".
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Whereas in the early days of the practice it was considered wrong to construct words to disguise meaning, this is now an established practice. There is a thriving industry in constructing words without explicit meaning but with particular connotations for new products or companies. Doublespeak is also employed in the field of politics.
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Nick tells Frankford about Wendoll and Anne. At a card game after dinner where the conversation is full of doublespeak, Frankford begins to believe it and works out a plan to catch them in the act. He retires to bed early.(Scene VIII) Susan pleads for help from various friends and family members, who all cast her off.
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Doublespeak, particularly when exaggerated, can be used as a device in satirical comedy and social commentary to ironically parody political or bureaucratic establishments' intent on obfuscation or prevarication. The television series Yes Minister is notable for its use of this device. Oscar Wilde was an early proponent of this device and a significant influence on Orwell.
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Bureaucracies frequently spawn euphemisms intentionally, as doublespeak expressions. For example, in the past, the US military used the term "sunshine units" for contamination by radioactive isotopes. An effective death sentence in the Soviet Union during the Great Purge often used the clause "imprisonment without right to correspondence": the person sentenced would be shot soon after conviction.Solzhenitsyn, Alexander (1974).
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"Doublespeak" features walls of feedback against piano chord progressions. It talks about people that purposely live in ignorance to remain in a place of privilege despite the expense of others. Southern rock track "In Exile" talks about being exiled in perpetuity and going on an immeasurable pilgrimage. "At the Last" sees Kensrue rallying against consumerism; the guitar work recalled the sound of grunge.
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He twice chaired the National Council of Teachers of English Committee on Public Language, which gives out the annual Doublespeak and George Orwell Awards;Public language awards committee, NCTE. Retrieved 2009-08-24. he edited the monograph series Publications of the American Dialect Society, and he has served on professional committees of the Modern Language Association and the Linguistic Society of America.
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A Dark Room is an open-source text-based role-playing game. It was originally published for web browsers by Canadian indie studio Doublespeak Games on June 10, 2013. Later that year, it was released in the App Store for iOS devices. In 2014, a prequel, The Ensign, was released for iOS and provided more insight into the world and its characters.
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In political discourse, if-by-whiskey is a relativist fallacy in which the speaker's position is contingent on the listener's opinion. An if-by-whiskey argument implemented through doublespeak appears to affirm both sides of an issue, and agrees with whichever side the listener supports, in effect taking a position without taking a position. The statement typically uses words with strongly positive or negative connotations.
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Moe is the Gin of Rummy, and Larry is an accomplice. Moe and Curly exchange in conversations consisting of doublespeak and gibberish and offer the governor a raspberry lollipop, which he mistakes as a ruby as large as a turkey's egg. Moe dubs it the "Ruby de Lollipopskia." Next is a fountain pen that the governor mistakes as a tusk from a black walrus.
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Dorothy Porter, Health, Civilization, and the State, Routledge, p. 252: "...what the Americans liked to call 'socialized medicine'..."Paul Wasserman, Don Hausrath, Weasel Words: The Dictionary of American Doublespeak, p. 60: "One of the terms to denigrate and attack any system under which complete medical aid would be provided to every citizen through public funding."Edward Conrad Smith, New Dictionary of American Politics, p.
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The concept of Catch-22 is also represented in the character of Colonel Cathcart (whose name is an anagram for both "catch art" and "rat catch"), as he consists entirely of irreconcilable oppositions and maintains an illogical thought process that echoes that of the catch. Cathcart is a master of political doublespeak, often completely contradicting what he says seconds after he says it, usually when a superior officer disagrees with him.
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"The Holocaust Survivor Who Deciphered Nazi Doublespeak." The New York Times 24 June 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2019. In 1944 Blumental returned to Poland, where he, along with an assortment of historians, ethnographers and linguists, established the Central Jewish Historical Commission. They transcribed 3,000 survivor testimonies between 1944 and 1947, scavenged for Nazi paperwork in abandoned Gestapo offices and meticulously preserved documentary fragments of day-to-day ghetto life.
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Political intrigue plays a key role in the game. The player reads through the story and schedules the protagonist's weekly lessons, in topics such as economy, foreign affairs, logistics, expression, military matters, self-defense, intrigues, doublespeak and magic. Based on those activities, Elodie increases her proficiency in various statistics. Additionally, during the weekend Elodie has free run of the castle and can choose an activity that alters her mood.
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In his book Telling Lies for God: Reason vs Creationism (1994), Plimer attacked creationists in Australia, in specific the Queensland-based Creation Science Foundation (now called Creation Ministries International or CMI), saying that claims of a Biblical global flood are untenable. In the book he also criticised aspects of traditional Christian belief and literal interpretations of the Bible, with chapters titled "Scientific Fraud: The Great Flood of Absurdities" and "Disinformation Doublespeak".
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A Dark Room was created by Michael Townsend, the founder and lead developer of Doublespeak Games. It was released as a browser game on June 10, 2013. According to Townsend, the game was designed to tell its story entirely through environmental cues, rather than relying on exposition and dialogue. In July 2013, Townsend released the source code of the game on GitHub under the open-source license MPL 2.0.
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The other called for the Council to find means to study the relationships between language and public policy and to track, publicize, and combat semantic distortion by public officials, candidates for office, political commentators, and all others whose language is transmitted through the mass media. The two resolutions were accomplished by forming NCTE's Committee on Public Doublespeak, a body which has made significant contributions in describing the need for reform where clarity in communication has been deliberately distorted.
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On September 13, 2017 the band released a music video "Overthrow" on YouTube, and announced the album False Idol for October 20, 2017. The music video for the band's second single "Doublespeak" was added to YouTube on October 3, 2017. On September 12th, 2019 the band released a single “Members only” off of a future unknown album. On May 3rd, 2020 the band released a music video for the single "Outsider" from a presumed yet unannounced album.
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An example of this is the United States Department of Defense, which won the award three times in 1991, 1993, and 2001. For the 1991 award, the United States Department of Defense "swept the first six places in the Doublespeak top ten" for using euphemisms like "servicing the target" (bombing) and "force packages" (warplanes). Among the other phrases in contention were "difficult exercise in labor relations", meaning a strike, and "meaningful downturn in aggregate output", an attempt to avoid saying the word "recession".
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Advertisers can use doublespeak to mask their commercial intent from users, as users' defenses against advertising become more entrenched. Some are attempting to counter this technique with a number of systems offering diverse views and information to highlight the manipulative and dishonest methods that advertisers employ. According to Jacques Ellul, "the aim is not to even modify people’s ideas on a given subject, rather, it is to achieve conformity in the way that people act." He demonstrates this view by offering an example from drug advertising.
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Clean comedy is a comedy genre that is generally free of ribaldry: racism, rape jokes, pejoratives, profanity, obscenity, incest, illicit drugs, off- color humor, toilet humor, explicitly sexual content, and similarly objectionable material. Comedians may try to circumvent clean-comedy restrictions by using innuendos, euphemisms, doublespeak, double entendres, and gender-neutral language. Clean comedy is not necessarily unprovocative. Clean comedy is considered by some to be a higher form of comedy than bits that rely on the shock of profanity or sexual content to elicit laughs.
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He also said that this will check wastage of public funds, corruption, fake degrees and improve matching of jobs to employees in the labour market. Jean Drèze, development economist, said that the bill was designed to evade Supreme Court orders restricting the usage of Aadhaar. He also said that bill was presented as a money bill to prevent debate. He argued that despite declaring it voluntary the government had created practical compulsions for enrolment, and an intervention of the Supreme Court was need to end the "doublespeak".
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Shyama Heather Peebles (1942-2012) was a Western Australian politician, outback historian and anti-nuclear activist from the Goldfields region. She ran as a candidate for the Australian Democrats in Western Australian and Australian elections during the period 1989-1993. She wrote a 20-page illustrated booklet entitled Uranium mining in Western Australia : exploration doublespeak which was published by Goldfields Against Serious Pollution in Kalgoorlie in 1989. In 1995 she was awarded the Bessie Rischbieth Conservation Award from the Conservation Council of Western Australia for her contribution to environmental conservation in Western Australia.
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The family were moderately well off, living in a two-room flat in a concrete block in the suburbs of Moscow. Masha Gessen wrote that they faced a dilemma raising Mikhail: “Speak your mind about the Soviet Union and risk making your child miserable, with the constant need for doublethink and doublespeak, or try to raise a contented conformist. They chose the second path, with results that far exceeded their expectations. Mikhail became a fervent Communist and Soviet patriot, a member of a species that had seemed all but extinct.
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In the wake of the compromise worked out by Ghanouchi and Beji Caid Essebsi, the party (or at least its leader), has been complimented for it willingness to compromise, protecting Tunisia's democracy and civil peace from Egyptian style violence. However some Islamists see the party as having lost an opportunity to reverse the "social framework" of secularism in the country. The party is generally described as socially centrist with mild support for economic liberalism and has been compared to European Christian democrats. However, liberals accuse its leaders of "doublespeak" in this regard.
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Doublespeak is a term sometimes used for deliberate euphemistic misuse of words to distort or reverse their meaning, as in a "Ministry of Peace" which wages war, and a "Ministry of Love" which imprisons and tortures. It is a portmanteau of the terms Newspeak and doublethink, which originate from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The word euphemism itself can be used as a euphemism. In the animated TV special Halloween Is Grinch Night (see Dr. Seuss), a child asks to go to the euphemism, where euphemism is being used as a euphemism for outhouse.
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157–158, 171–172 Privitorul deplored "boyar" elitism, and exposed the non-Romanian origins of various families forming the conservative ruling class.Olaru (1994), pp. 284–285 According to Gafița, Onciul and his followers saw themselves as emancipated progressives: "profoundly loyal" to the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, capable of seeing beyond national divisions, and even open to the idea of a trans-ethnic, Austrian nationalism. Gafița also sees Onciul as employing "doublespeak" on this issue, and of willingly fashioning himself to be the diametrical opposite of Flondor.Gafița (2009), pp.
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On February 7, 2019, The Globe and Mail published an article that spurred investigation into the SNC-Lavalin Affair. The article claimed that the Prime Minister's Office had pressured Jody Wilson-Raybould while she was Attorney General of Canada into pursuing a deferred prosecution agreement for SNC Lavalin. The article also claimed that Wernick had rebuked Wilson- Raybould for having suggested that politicians had engaged in doublespeak on Indigenous issues. Wilson-Raybould resigned her current post as Minister of Veterans Affairs on February 12, 2019. On February 21, 2019, Wernick appeared before the House of Commons Justice Committee.
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Terrence P. Moran of the US National Council of Teachers of English has compared the use of doublespeak in the mass media to a set of laboratory experiments conducted on rats. In the experiment, a sample of rats was first deprived of food, before one group was fed sugar and water and the other group a saccharin solution. Both groups exhibited behavior indicating that their hunger was satisfied, but rats in the second group (which were fed saccharin solution) died of malnutrition. Moran parallels doublespeak's effects on the social masses to the second group of rats upon whom an illusionary effect was created.
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The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Committee on Public Doublespeak was formed in 1971, in the midst of the Watergate scandal. It was at a point when there was widespread skepticism about the degree of truth which characterized relationships between the public and the worlds of politics, the military, and business. NCTE passed two resolutions. One called for the Council to find means to study dishonest and inhumane uses of language and literature by advertisers, to bring offenses to public attention, and to propose classroom techniques for preparing children to cope with commercial propaganda.
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" When they invoke the language of power balancing, Bush's advisers obfuscate more than they clarify: According to Leffler's exegesis, Bush has invoked a balance of power vocabulary in purpose to integrate the tradition with the hegemonic dilemma."9/11 and the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy," p 1061, 1063. British Orwell Prize-winning policy analyst, Anatol Lieven, comments: In this conception, however, a phrase "was a form of Orwellian doublespeak. The clear intention actually was to be so strong that other countries had no choice but to rally to the side of the United States, concentrating all real power and freedom of action in the hands of America.
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In addition to The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin and Penguins Behind Bars, Perlman's NFB credits include the 1976 animated short Lady Fishbourne's Complete Guide to Better Table Manners, winner of first prize in the instructional films category at the Ottawa International Film Festival, and the 2005 short Invasion of the Space Lobsters, a co-production of the NFB with the Canadian Labour Congress, which is a "tongue-in-cheek look at doublespeak and bafflegab." She was an animator on The Hottest Show on Earth (1977) and co- directed Why Me? with Derek Lamb (1978), and contributed animation work to Alison Snowden and David Fine's Oscar-winning NFB co-produced short Bob's Birthday.
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In 1997, an article in the New York Times characterized the New CAN as an affiliate of the Church of Scientology, stating: "now it's in the hands of a Scientologist and proselytizes for the church". The New CAN has been accused of giving away the identity of a caller, a concerned mother, to the cult she was inquiring about, which resulted in further damaging the relationship with her daughter. Penn writes in False Dawn that the New Cult Awareness Network is "dominated by Scientologists". In describing what he refers to as the "doublespeak" of the (New) Cult Awareness Network, Tuman states that Scientology and CAN utilize the term "religious freedom" as a hallmark of its defense against critics.
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The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) is a United States professional organization dedicated to "improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. Since 1911, NCTE has provided a forum for the profession, an array of opportunities for teachers to continue their professional growth throughout their careers, and a framework for cooperation to deal with issues that affect the teaching of English." In addition, the NCTE describes its mission as follows: The NCTE is involved in publishing journals (College Composition and Communication and College English) and books that address the concerns of English language arts educators. Since the 1970s, it has issued annual Doublespeak Awards and Orwell Awards.
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Writing for Complex, Karazza Sanchez praised the sample used in the song, saying it sounds "faintly like a classic Brandy single". Echoing the sentiment of Kennedy from Los Angeles Times, Aaron Williams of Uproxx called "The weekend" a "sexy, slow-burner" and "a clear standout from ... Ctrl". Natty Kasambala who writes for Crack Magazine highlighted "The Weekend" along with "Supermodel" and "Normal Girl", saying the candour with which SZA lays "her cards on the table" through these track "touched nerves beyond her core fans, in a time of political uncertainty and doublespeak". Similarly, a Rap-Up editor called it one of the moments where SZA resonates with listeners through her "deeply personal songwriting".
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"Orwellian" is an adjective describing a situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society. It denotes an attitude and a brutal policy of draconian control by propaganda, surveillance, disinformation, denial of truth (doublethink), and manipulation of the past, including the "unperson"—a person whose past existence is expunged from the public record and memory, practiced by modern repressive governments. Often, this includes the circumstances depicted in his novels, particularly Nineteen Eighty-Four but political doublespeak is criticized throughout his work, such as in Politics and the English Language. The New York Times has said the term is "the most widely used adjective derived from the name of a modern writer".
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The opening of the school caused controversy, with some in the Muslim community in Derby opposing the scheme. However a high demand for places at the school was reported when enrolment started in 2012. The idea of a segregated religious school was opposed by the Derby Campaign for Inclusive Education (DCIE) on the grounds that education should be inclusive with children from different backgrounds being educated together so they can make up their own minds as to what to believe as adults. There were also concerns amongst the Muslim community regarding the competency of the founders, doublespeak, political agendas, personal agenda and financial irregularities at a previous charity resulting in a public q&a; meeting organised by the Derby Community Education Forum, which the founders refused to attend.
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Heavy rains in the afternoon caused flash floods, affecting Liat Towers and other areas around Orchard Road, Balestier, Cambridge Road, Monk's Hill, Cuscaden Road, Lincoln Road, United Square, Moulmein Road and the junction of Bukit Timah junction and Sixth Avenue. Within hours of the floods, national water agency, Public Utilities Board(PUB), released a media statement stating, > "There was no flooding at Orchard Road. However, water ponded at the open > area of Liat Towers, the underpass between Lucky Plaza and Ngee Ann City, > and the basement of Lucky Plaza due to the sustained heavy downpour". PUB subsequently wrote in to newspaper Today to assert that they were not understating the situation and using doublespeak, after a reader's letter pointed out that it was sad that the agency had to "resort to word usage to dissipate the impact of these floods" when the event was clearly a "flooding" and not "ponding".
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After graduation, Cameron worked for the Conservative Research Department between September 1988 and 1993. His first brief was Trade and Industry, Energy and Privatisation; he befriended fellow young colleagues, including Edward Llewellyn, Ed Vaizey and Rachel Whetstone. They and others formed a group they called the "Smith Square set", which was dubbed the "Brat Pack" by the press, though it is better known as the "Notting Hill set", a name given to it pejoratively by Derek Conway. In 1991, Cameron was seconded to Downing Street to work on briefing John Major for the then twice-weekly sessions of Prime Minister's Questions. One newspaper gave Cameron the credit for "sharper ... Despatch box performances" by Major,"Atticus", The Sunday Times, 30 June 1991 which included highlighting for Major "a dreadful piece of doublespeak" by Tony Blair (then the Labour Employment spokesman) over the effect of a national minimum wage."House of Commons 6th series, vol. 193, cols. 1133–34", Hansard.
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Retrieved 20 February 2018 Chisolm described Qureshi as "a very formidable campaigner and completely dedicated to the rights of minorities." In November 2007, Qureshi took up the case of 13-year-old Meltem Avcil, a 13-year-old Kurdish girl from Doncaster, who began self-harming after being detained with her mother at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre and about to be deported. Enlisting the support of the actress Juliet Stevenson, Sir Al Aynsley, Children's Commissioner, and journalists at The Independent newspaper, including Natasha Walter, Qureshi ran a campaign across the UK and Europe to secure Meltem and her mother's release. Independent (UK newspaper), Published 21 November 2007, Retrieved 20 February 2018 In 2015, at the height of media interest in the Syrian refugee crisis, Qureshi spoke out in a heated debate with Sarah Smith against what she described as the BBC's "doublespeak", giving a searing criticism of the BBC’s constant references to refugees fleeing war and persecution as migrants.
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On 19 December 2008, nine men were arrested on charges of homosexuality in a private flat in Dakar, allegedly after police received an anonymous tip. One of the arrestees was Diadji Diouf, the owner of the flat and a well-known Senegalese activist who heads AIDES Senegal, which provides HIV / AIDS prevention and treatment services to men who have sex with men. The men were repeatedly tortured while in police custody, even after they confessed to being gay.Senegal: Land of Impunity, Amnesty International, 2010 On 6 January 2009, all these men were convicted of "indecent conduct and unnatural acts" (5 years' imprisonment) and for "being members of a criminal group" (3 years' imprisonment)."Senegal's judicial doublespeak and homosexuality: Prison terms issued against nine suspects defy law albeit minister's promises", Afrik-News, reported by Habibou Bangré, 9 January 2009"Nine Men Convicted of Homosexual Acts in Senegal", The Advocate, 10 January 2009"Senegal: 9 Men Jailed For Homosexual Acts", Huffington Post, reported by Sadibou Marone, 8 January 2009 The judge said that AIDES Senegal was a "cover to recruit or organize meetings for homosexuals, under the pretext of providing HIV/AIDS prevention programmes".
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She suggested that the programme stereotyped males and females, portraying girls as "emotional", "want(ing) security" and wanting to "look attractive", while boys "need respect" and "don't want a girlfriend that questions their opinions and argues with their decisions all the time". The programme material also featured lines such as "a guy can’t not want to look" and suggested that girls indulge in doublespeak while boys mean exactly what they say. Focus on the Family Singapore was appointed by the Ministry of Social and Family Development to conduct such modules for junior college students. Focus has since issued an official response, claiming that the content of the workshop was based on material by experts, including Gary Chapman (author of The Five Love Languages) and Jeff and Shaunti Feldhahn (author of For Women Only: What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men) Focus also defended its programmes by pointing out more than 85 per cent of the students polled had rated it as "Very Good/Good" while 89 per cent of students saw he presentation of its facilitators as "Very Good/Good".
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