Suppressing freedom of conscience via control of language is the point of postmodern moonbattery.
The Blaze reports:
“It is painful to see how, especially in the West, the space for genuine freedom of expression is rapidly shrinking,” the pope said. “At the same time, a new Orwellian-style language is developing which, in an attempt to be increasingly inclusive, ends up excluding those who do not conform to the ideologies that are fueling it.”
The Thought Police aren’t going to like his failure to embrace the Newspeak Dictionary.
The 70-year-old explained that the inclusivity paradox leads to other consequences, such as the restriction of human rights, including “freedom of conscience.”
Suppressing freedom of conscience via control of language is the point of postmodern moonbattery.
Pope Leo: Free Speech Is Being Eliminated in the West Under ‘Orwellian-Style’ Censorship
Pope Leo XIV used his annual address to foreign diplomats at the Vatican to issue a stark warning that struck at the heart of the Western political order.
The first American pontiff cautioned that freedom of expression in the West is contracting under the liberal-globalist banner of so-called ‘progress and inclusion’. According to the Pope, Western societies, for a long time, have drifted and continue to drift toward enforced consensus rather than open debate.
He warned that speech is increasingly policed not only by law,, but by cultural pressure and left-liberal globalist ideological enforcement. Continue reading Pope Leo: Free Speech Is Being Eliminated in the West Under ‘Orwellian-Style’ Censorship
