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“Seized Iranian oil just happens to be ‘stuck’ off the coast of Texas, phrased in that immortal passive-voice Newspeak style MSM loves to employ when they need to hide the culprit of the crime. You know, like when they report on Israeli missiles hitting Syria as “Damascus is hit by missiles”, leaving their dimwitted readers to wonder whose missiles they were.”
(Quoted from Simplicius’ article “Putin Strikes Back: Ukrainian Ports Devastated To Cap Grain Deal’s Termination”
My comment:
Ha, ha. Excellent. Bravo! The pernicious passive voice routinely used to hide unbearable truth! As a linguist, I find this remark by Simplicius spot on. One could give lots of other examples: consider only the history of Native Americans written by white scholars. The passive voice is used whenever the racist author wants to avoid mentioning the “doer” of the action. For example, “Native Americans were removed from their land and many were killed.” So they were. But by whom? If the author of this sentence had to identify the doer, he or she would have to use the active voice and say something like this: “White Christians removed Native Americans from their land and killed many of them.” But he or she doesn’t. And so the “dim-witted” readers of academic/political propaganda usually don’t bother to find out who actually did the removing and killing. And so the academic and political fraud continues unchallenged. |