The (American) Liberal Dictionary

How to read words in press articles and liberal blogs

Published on July 21, 2005 By Leauki In The Media

This is a living document. I add words and modify definitions whenever I see fit.

"aid"
noun
Expired medication.

"anti-Semitism"
noun
Hostility or prejudice against Jews in the past and theoretically in the present unless targeted at Israel. In fact, classic anti-Semitism and its major crimes ended on May 15 1948.

"apartheid"
noun
A terrible crime against humanity caused by Israel. Apartheid happens when Arab nationalists or Muslim fundamentalists are unable to commit genocide against a non-Arab population and when Arabs and non-Arabs have the same legal rights as citizens.

"Arabia"
name
A large peninsula south of the Arab homeland (see "Palestine").

"arms deals"
noun, plural
A method used by fascist dictators to be armed and supported by the United States and end up with Russian and French weapons.

"cease-fire agreement"
noun
This term means nothing at all.

"censored"
adjective
Caught lying again.

"Christian fundamentalist"
noun
A Republican voter (see "right-wing extremist").

"CIA"
abbreviation
The symbol of all evil and the incarnation of the capitalist satan. Showing the involvement of the CIA in an incident proves beyond a doubt that the incident was inhumane and caused by greed, usually for oil.

"controversial"
adjective
1. (Content) false.
2. (Person) lying.

"disproportionate force"
noun
Lack of even remotely credible evidence for the thesis that the Jews are guilty of causing the latest conflict between Israel and the "Death to the Jews" crowd.

"diversity"
noun
Dominance by a non-white ethnicity or non-Christian religion. Strict observance of diversity is considered a step towards a colour-blind society.

"documentary"
noun
Film comedy (see "right wing propaganda").

"dubious"
adjective
The activities of a country or alliance that acts quickly, can be relied upon to act as promised, and which has widely known moral values.

"ethnic cleansing"
noun
The mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group unless said group is one of Jews.

"equal opportunities"
noun, plural
Equal results.

"expansionism"
noun
Israel's policy of defeating Arab countries that try to destroy the Jewish state.

"fairness"
noun
The belief that other people work for free.

"fascist"
noun
1. A politician or voter who does not believe in the moral superiority of self-proclaimed leaders.
2. Libertarian individualist loony with a fascination for guns that is likely not good for him and certainly not acceptable for the left.
3. A Jewish moderate from Judaea or Samaria.

"freedom fighter"
noun
A peace activist targeting Jews (see "peace activist").

"genocide"
noun
Any crime committed by Jews or Americans against any other people. A people can be subject to "genocide" even while its population is growing faster than all surrounding peoples.

"guerilla"
noun
A communist terrorist.

"heroic"
adjective
Attacking civilians, preferably kindergarten children (see "freedom fighter").

"Hitler"
noun
Any individual involved in a conflict between America and Arab nationalists except the dictator with the moustache who gases people.

"human rights"
noun, plural
The privileges Arab nationalists enjoy and their victims do not (see "international law").

"illegal"
adjective
Israeli, done by or in Israel

"imperialism"
noun
A political and social system used by tiny states against their giant neighbours in the Middle-East.

"insurgent"
noun
A foreigner coming into a country to kill civilians in protest against democracy.

"international community"
noun
The external authority justifying the rule of brutal dictators and condemning attempts to remove them from power.

"international law"
noun
The principle that tyranny is good, the murder of millions acceptable, and ending either immoral.

"intolerance"
noun
Disagreement with progressive opinion (see "progressive").

"Jerusalem"
noun
An Arab city that is completely unrelated to Jews or Judaism (see "Palestine").

"journalist"
noun
A person whose point of view is also his point of sale.

"liberal"
noun
An opponent of the Vietnam war and a supporter of John F. Kennedy

"lunatic fringe"
noun
Political faction in American parliament consisting of all Republicans and most Democrats.

"militant"
noun
1. A terrorist or murderer who kills specifically American or Jewish civilians.
2. A Sunni terrorist who attacks Shi'ite civilians in Iraq.

"military fiasco"
noun
Any result of an American invasion that saves hundreds of thousands of lives and that liberals disagree with.

"monopoly"
noun
A situation in which a company uses unfair tactics like very low prices and superior products against competing companies. Very low prices and the existence of competing companies are symptomatic of a monopoly.

"myth of the persecuted Jew"
noun
The logical explanation for why the current attack on Jews or Israel is not to be opposed on principle. The myth of the persecuted Jew derives from two thousands years of persecution which ended exactly before the latest attack and does not in any way include or explain it.

"Nazi"
noun
A person who sides with Israel against the dictatorships that surround it, with ethnic minorities against the dictatorships that rule them, and with small countries against dictatorships that attack them.

"Nazi crimes"
noun, plural
A crime of a nature that is beyond even the levels accepted and encouraged by the United Nations and covered by international law. The threshold depends on race and religion of the criminal and is usually the murder of millions and brutal occupation of half a continent for a non-Jew and for a Jew the expelling of a few thousand people and subsequent refusal to allow re-entrance. (see "international law", see "United Nations")

"Nicaragua"
noun
Proof that current American policy is based on greed and evil.

"nuclear reactor"
noun
An expensive device that produces electricity and would be employed by oil-rich middle eastern countries for only that purpose since, presumably, they have no other power source (see "oil").

"occupation force"
noun
An American peace-keeping force (see "peace-keeping force").

"occupied"
adjective
Jewish-owned or otherwise not under Arab control

"oil"
noun
A very valuable liquid that costs less than French mineral water and is the source of enormous wealth for some of the poorest and least developed countries in the world. Oil cannot be used to produce electricity (see "nuclear reactor").

"pacifism"
noun
The idea that tyranny and mass murder is to be preferred over war because war is wrong.

"Palestine"
noun
1. The only country in the world which has never had a significant Jewish population in its history (see "Jerusalem").
2. The Arab homeland (see "Arabia").
3. Not a territory created by the British in the former Ottoman Empire.

"Palestinian"
noun
A non-Jewish inhabitant of Palestine and any descendant of such living anywhere else. Some Palestinians are Egyptians. Most Palestinians are Muslims. There are Christian Palestinians, but they are often Palestinians for a shorter time. There are no Jewish Palestinians due to tolerance (see "tolerance").

"peace"
noun
A scenario in which ethnic and religious minorities are slaughtered by nationalist dictators without hope of rescue. This constitutes stability and is a good thing (see "progressive").

"peace activist"
noun
1. Any person who protests American and Jewish influence in the middle-east or the world, regardless of the means employed to make such protest known or the influence he wants asserted instead of American or Jewish such.
2. A prison inmate who regularly attacks other prisoners or guards.

"peace-keeping force"
noun
A non-American occupation force (see "occupation force").

"poverty"
noun
A state of existence that has been identified as the reason for why some of the richest men from the middle east attack some of the poorest members of other societies and their own.

"predominantly unarmed"
adjective
Adjective describing the status of a group who cannot currently kill as many Jews as they want to.

"progressive"
adjective
The political position and belief that stability is more important than democratisation.

"public interest"
noun
A liberal cause (see "special interest").

"racism"
noun
The belief that people should be judged on their achievements rather than their backgrounds (see "racist").

"racist"
noun
Someone who does not take into account another person's ethnicity or culture when judging his actions.

"refugee"
noun
Any non-Jewish person who actually fled some-whence or is remotely related to one who might have.

"refugee camp"
noun
Camps located in Arab countries bordering Israel. Refugee camps are surrounded by 200 million Arabs and Palestinians (see "Palestinian") are forced by Israel to live in the camps. The refugees (see "refugee") living in the camps have considerably fewer rights than the other Arabs in the host country and that is Israel's fault.

"resistance"
noun
The act of murdering an opressive Jew. This is generally done by oppressed minorities who are however free to move into Jewish neighbourhoods and who have determined that the source of the oppression is a school or kindergarden in that neighbourhood. Oppressed minorities have no problem getting weapons and bombs and other equipment required.

"resistance group"
noun
A group of freedom fighters (see "freedom fighter") or peace activists (see "peace activist") who engage in resistance (see "resistance").

"right-wing extremist"
noun
A Democratic/Republican swing voter or conservative Jewish politician (see "Christian fundamentalist", see "lunatic fringe", see "ultra-right-wing").

"right-wing propaganda"
noun
History (see "documentary").

"Saddam Hussein"
name
Leader of Iraq who paid Palestinian freedom fighters for killing Jews (see "freedom fighter") and whose regime had no connection to terrorism. The Anglo-American invasion of his country is now being revenged by Islamic terrorists because there is no connection between Saddam Hussein and terrorism.

"segregation"
noun
When Jews and Arabs live in the same city or region. Segregation can only be fought by demanding that the Jews live elsewhere.

"settlement"
noun
A place where Jews live as opposed to a place where people live (see "village").

"smear campaign"
noun
The act of quoting last year's statements of this year's liberals.

"special interest"
A conservative cause (see "public interest").

"terrorist"
noun
1. Any violent person except insurgents and peace activists (see "insurgent", see "peace activist").
2. An American or Jew involved in a war.
3. An Israeli of any age.

"tolerance"
noun
The ability or willingness to tolerate something that is not a living Jew in "Palestine" (see "intolerance").

"Shah"
title
The one-time CIA-supported (see "CIA") ruler of Iran who ruled since 1941 after being put into power in a CIA-initiated coup in 1953. A committed fascist the Shah allowed the UK and US to send weapons and other provisions to the Soviet Union during World War II thereby severely hurting the German resistance (see "resistance") against allied fascism.

"ultra-right-wing"
adjective
Describes whatever political position Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman currently represents, regardless of how left-wing or liberal it might be. If Avigdor Lieberman has a more moderate position than "Palestinian" president Mahmoud Abbas, Mahmoud Abbas is "moderate", while Avigdor Lieberman is "ultra-right-wing" because he is a Jew.

"unilateral"
adjective
Attribute of any act or decision of a group of countries which does not include France.

"United Nations"
noun, singular
International organisation watching over the world. The main purpose of the UN is to ensure that the world is safe, just, and educated. The logical result is that the world is now UN-safe, UN-just, and UN-educated.

"village"
noun
A place where people live as opposed to a place where Jews live (see "settlement").

"war"
noun
The ensuing event when one country attacks another. Depending on the status of the attacked party a war can be either acceptable to the international community or not. If the attacked party is a dictator prone to slaughtering minorities, a war to remove him is unacceptable (see "international law") and the attack is considered imperialism; if the attacked party is a country with a significant Jewish population, an attack is either considered the desperate act of an opressed people or quickly forgotten.

"war criminal"
noun
A Jew or American involved in a war, for example when under attack.

"Zionist"
noun
A middle-eastern Jew. When it is no longer politically correct to murder "Jews", the modern freedom fighter (see "freedom fighter") does not target "Jews" but "Zionists". It is convenient that generally Jews in the middle east are either Zionists (i.e. they moved to Israel) or have been killed by what made the first group move to Israel. The freedom fighter therefor has nothing to change except his rhetoric.

Comments (Page 7)

Artysim

on Oct 31, 2008

Also, I would like to know. Is using human shields a war crime if Jews do it?

Anybody using human shields is a crime. Anyone. However, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the U.N all investigated the allegations that Hezbollah used 'human shields' and came to the conclusion that they didn't.

First, you have to define what the term means, which is forcing a non-combatant to stay in between you and your enemy. All of these different groups that looked into it came to the conclusion that "human shields" weren't used.

Hezbollah themselves don't do this because they depend on the support of the civillian populace, which is why they do things like garbage collection and other civil infrastructure that the corrupt lebanese governmnet has neglected in certain areas of the country. If they didn't have the support of the civillian populace, they simply wouldn't be able to operate. Remember, 5,000 people out of more than 4 million isn't a whole heckuva lot!

Furthermore, again, they were too busy fighting the IDF to go around forcing people to stay in their homes at gunpoint. The numbers bear this out-

With only about 5,000 fighters and the IDF invaded with more than 30,000 troops. Yet the IDF continually got bogged down and was unable to advance very far in Lebanon. Considering the fact that Hezbollah was outnumbered in the field more than 6 to 1 by an enemy that had virtually unlimited fire support and tanks (the tanks ended up being more of a liability however) it stands to reason that they would be busy enough fighting the IDF than running around terrorizing their own people.

But, the assertion the Hezbollah did not use human shields unwinds the mythic narrative of good guy vs. evil terrorist, so therefore it must not be true and cannot exist as part of the discussion. So, taking off the rose coloured glasses, here's what really happened-

IDF drops leaflets telling people they're going to drop bombs and they should leave.

Many people leave but others don't because they either are unable, or don't want to (every bridge across the Litani got wiped out, civillian vehicles were targeted without discerning whether they had combatants in them)

So, there are civillians left behind, noncombatants in their homes. Just because the IDF told people ahead of time they're going to bomb an area, doesn't give them the right to kill anyone in that area indiscriminately.

So, they invent the excuse that Hezbollah is forcing these people to stay in their homes at gunpoint, and hiding behind these people as human shields. Therefore it's now okay to drop the bombs.

But it really doesn't matter what I say, I can provide any amount of supporting material and recommend books and the like and you will come back screaming

"lies, all of it lies!!!"

Apparently all of which I've made up because I'm a liberal??? (nevermind the fact that I've been a conservative most of my life and was pro-George Bush when he first got elected. I even believed the LIES they told about the need to invade Iraq because of the threat they posed with their automated drones that were going to fly over the atlantic and drop chemical and biological weapons on us)

No, according to your narrative a liberal is a liberal who hates (or doesn't but mechanically repeats lies) but I assure you the things I say don't come from me. I'm just an idiot gasbag know it all, but Canada does have many people living in it who come from Lebanon and Palestine and so have a bit of a different perspective on how things are across the border from Israel. I am simply trying to present a different side of the discussion, which according to you must all be lies because it contradicts the official narrative of blameless israel vs. rabid evil hordes who want to destroy it.

Leauki

on Oct 31, 2008

And now Hizbullah didn't do it again.

First they did and you didn't understand why it was wrong.

Once you were told that it was wrong, you claimed Hizbullah didn't do it.

When I showed you videos of Hizbullah doing it, you said they did it but not a lot.

And then I ask you if using human shields is wrong, you claim that it is and that the UN investigated those claims and found out that Hizbullah didn't do it.

Can we perhaps to a conclusion here?

Anyway, I was in northern Israel at the time and we were being evacuated. The silly claim that such evacuations are not possible and that Israel is hence to blame for civilian deaths it tried to avoid is another lie.

It seems to me like you are looking for a way to make Israel the bad guy and you have picked a war where that was exceedingly difficult to do.

I don't know why you make up lies or why you repeat them. Whether you are for against George Bush doesn't concern me.

Incidentally, I didn't only believe the "lies" George Bush (and Al Gore and Bill Clinton and everybody else) told about Iraq, but I even went there assuming the stories were true and then saw it with my own eyes. I took pictures of the torture chambers, I saw (nearly touched) a rope from Abu Ghraib, I spoke to people who fled to the mountains when Saddam came with the non-existing poison has George Bush lied about, and I saw a gallery of pictures of poison gas attacks.

I never heard the stories about automated drones. We must be reading different newspapers again.

No, according to your narrative a liberal is a liberal who hates (or doesn't but mechanically repeats lies) but I assure you the things I say don't come from me.

I know many liberals. I even know Arabs that support the PLO. But I haven't heard that many vicious lies about Israel even from people who hate the country and want it destroyed.

I am close to assuming that even Hizbullah themselves would be embarrassed by you.

They actually regard using human shields as a noble strategy and openly advocate doing it.

I am sure you can tell your stories to other people who will eagerly believe everything you say. But I have been there during the war, I have seen the videos the IDF drones shot, and I have seen both Hizbullah's rockets (which were shot into cities, NOT at the army, and which were designed to KILL, NOT to destroy) and the leaflets the IDF dropped to warn people.

Leauki

on Oct 31, 2008

"Hezbollah came to Ain Ebel to shoot its rockets," said Fayad Hanna Amar, a young Christian man, referring to his village. "They are shooting from between our houses."

"Please,'' he added, "write that in your newspaper."

Many Christians from Ramesh and Ain Ebel considered Hezbollah's fighting methods as much of an outrage as the Israeli strikes. Mr. Amar said Hezbollah fighters in groups of two and three had come into Ain Ebel, less than a mile from Bint Jbail, where most of the fighting has occurred. They were using it as a base to shoot rockets, he said, and the Israelis fired back.

One woman, who would not give her name because she had a government job and feared retribution, said Hezbollah fighters had killed a man who was trying to leave Bint Jbail.

"This is what's happening, but no one wants to say it" for fear of Hezbollah, she said.
- Sabrina Tavernise, "Christians Fleeing Lebanon Denounce Hezbollah," The New York Times, July 28, 2006

We know that Jews (or Israel) lie. But do Christians lie too?

Are Hizbullah and "human rights" organisations allied with them the only honest people left?

"This is what's happening, but no one wants to say it"

There are people who live in fear of contradicting people like Artysim.

Leauki

on Dec 25, 2008

Updated dictionary:

Added "Zionist", removed "Zionist agent".

taltamir

on Dec 27, 2008

here is a new definition:

bailout: taking money from people and business that know how to make money, and giving it to business and people that have proven that they only know how to waste it

Leauki

on Dec 29, 2008

bailout: taking money from people and business that know how to make money, and giving it to business and people that have proven that they only know how to waste it

It's not exactly a liberal term. It's also a cynical term already.

Dr Guy

on Dec 29, 2008

It's not exactly a liberal term. It's also a cynical term already.

I would clarify - it is not a democrat term, but it is liberal.

Leauki

on Dec 29, 2008

I would clarify - it is not a democrat term, but it is liberal.

Yes, but it is used in a cynical sense to describe the money given to enterprises that liberals feel failed because they were capitalist.

This is despite the fact that banks failed because of giving loans to poor minorities and despite the fact that auto companies failed due to union power.

taltamir

on Dec 29, 2008

which, btw, letting those auto companies file chapter 11 will void their union contracts.

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Leauki

on Aug 11, 2009

Updated a bit...

101

Leauki

on Aug 11, 2009

Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman has become the new CIA.

He is the new most evil person who ever lived.

And he is "ultra-right-wing", meaning that he is considerably more liberal (in the real sense of the word) than Mahmoud Abbas but he is a Jew.

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Leauki

on Sep 07, 2009

Update: "smear campaign"

103

Rightwinger

on Sep 08, 2009

This is a valuable tool; it really is.

I stop by here every once in a while, to get a reset of my views. Thing is, I laugh, but it's not funny. This is because it's all true.

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Leauki

on Dec 10, 2009

Updated...

105

Leauki

on Feb 15, 2010

Updated again...

New:

"disproportionate force"

Updated:

"village"

"settlement"

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