Introductory remarks by David Duke – Dr. Tom Sunic and I had an excellent meeting in Zagreb, Croatia not long ago. It was covered quite fairly in the biggest newsweekly magazine in Croatia called Globus. At that time Dr. Sunic went over with me the main topics of his lecture in Australia on Liberal Double-Talk. I thought it so valuable that with his permission and encouragement, the speech is now made available to the readers of www.Davidduke.com. It is vital that all of us around the world have a clear and fundamental understanding of the use of language and focus in directing our perceptions of the world. There is nothing more important than this understanding and the clearing of our mind of these programmed attachments. To that purpose I present here Dr. Sunic’s fine paper, and I urge our readers to go to Amazon.com and purchase his groundbreaking book, Homo Americanus which as he told me in our taped interview could well be called Homo Judaicus.

The Liberal Double-Talk and its Lexical and Legal Consequences

by Dr. Tomislav (Tom) Sunic

Language is a potent weapon for legitimizing any political system. In many instances the language in the liberal West is reminiscent of the communist language of the old Soviet Union, although liberal media and politicians use words and phrases that are less abrasive and less value loaded than words used by the old communist officials and their state-run media. In Western academe, media, and public places, a level of communication has been reached which avoids confrontational discourse and which resorts to words devoid of substantive meaning. Generally speaking, the liberal system shuns negative hyperbolas and skirts around heavy-headed qualifiers that the state-run media of the Soviet Union once used in fostering its brand of conformity and its version of political correctness. By contrast, the media in the liberal system, very much in line with its ideology of historical optimism and progress, are enamored with the overkill of morally uplifting adjectives and adverbs, often displaying words and expressions such as “free speech,” “human rights,” “tolerance,” and “diversity.” There is a wide spread assumption among modern citizens of the West that the concepts behind these flowery words must be taken as something self-evident.

There appears to be a contradiction. If free speech is something “self- evident” in liberal democracies, then the word “self-evidence” does not need to be repeated all the time; it can be uttered only once, or twice at the most. The very adjective “self-evident,” so frequent in the parlance of liberal politicians may in fact hide some uncertainties and even some self-doubt on the part of those who employ it. With constant hammering of these words and expressions, particularly words such as “human rights,” and “tolerance”, the liberal system may be hiding something; hiding, probably, the absence of genuine free speech. To illustrate this point more clearly it may be advisable for an average citizen living in the liberal system to look at the examples of the communist rhetoric which was once saturated with similar freedom-loving terms while, in reality, there was little of freedom and even less free-speech. (more…)