• poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    30
    ·
    9 months ago

    It’s doublespeak, a la 1984. In this case many of the words used are inversions of their usual meaning.

    I’ll provide some translations:

    patriots -> seditionists

    biblical -> cloaked in the authority of God – which here must be explicitly stated because their actions are opposed to any God of justice

    open boarders -> following legal and ethical principles (remember, these people oppose ethical principles)

    peacemakers -> those who use violence, or the threat of violence, to obstruct peace. See also, terrorists

    besieged by dark forces of evil -> opposed by morality, ethics, or the law. The addition of “on all sides” changes the ‘or’ to ‘and’

    As a bonus, “globalists” is antisemitism. There’s an old canard that justice for minorities = communism = Jewish conspiracy. This is particularly common among nazis. The convoy organizer is signaling that their group is accepting of these ideas