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Saturday 2 September 2017

How to spot a Leftitute

#In 1946, Gerald Celente a business consultant in USA, felt impelled to coin the word ’presstitute’. It’s a portmanteau of two rather obvious words. The word remained little used until social media grew in strength, and the word was rediscovered as a very valuable one indeed. It is so handy to call out all the various shades of humbugs in mainstream media.
A group of friends recently discussed the need to coin a word or phrase that is an alternate to the 'Right Wing' label that is thrust on them. No suggestion came up that lit everyone’s eyes. And there the matter ended.

Later this struck me.  Why not just embrace being called Right and invent a word to define the opposing motley crew that comes in many shades? They get called secular, libtard, pseudo-secular, liberal, lib-sec, leftist, regressive left, anti-national  etc. But being the artful dodgers they are, they evade being uniquely branded and get away looking good.

 We need a label that’d be a true description of who they are - in other words, a term that’d give them some pause.
 I hereby offer my newly minted word - for free public use. Call them ‘Leftitutes’, I say.
Let me explain. The opposite of Right is not only Left, but also Wrong.  So let us stay where we are, being Right. And call them for what they are, namely Wrong. Since Wrongist doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, and Leftist carries traces of undeserved dignity, let me call them Leftitutes. Remember, here ‘left’ is a synonym of ‘wrong’.
It begins to fit, as you’ll see.
It suggests leftitutes might be cousins to presstitutes; they invariably are. Have you noticed how often the mainstream media belabours the Right. A presstitute here is giving covering fire to his leftitute cousin. Within the leftitute ecosystem, a presstitute’s assignment is to raise noise levels on any issue dear to their common cause.
Rising intolerance, ghar wapsi, vigilantism, gau rakshaks, moral policing, Babas, dahi handi, jallikkattu, student rights, freedom of expression, Idea of India, minority baiting, Hindu Terror…. every one of these and tens of related tags are evaluated and picked from, to slap on every event that can be drummed up. It’s a daily routine in the leftitute camp.
Isn’t leftitution a harsh word to use? But look at this bunch of events: A commie leader will petition a US President to deny Modi a visa. A politician will frame a serving military officer as a Hindu terrorist. A frontline politician will cravenly ask Pakistanis to topple our elected Prime Minister. A leftitute will never make a stand-alone condemnation of an Islamic terror event, but will condemn ‘all-forms of terrorism’. When a drought hits Tamil Nadu leftitutes will dress up as farmers and arrive in Delhi to stage a burlesque for TV cameras. Every Hindu festival will be examined for flaws to exploit.  A politician who calls our Army Chief a ‘street-thug’ will go uncensured. A soldier who straps a stone-pelter on his vehicle to scare off a mob, will be castigated for days. They’ll demand proof if the Army did indeed make a punitive strike on the Pakis.  And most recently leftitutes maintained stony silence when India faced off China at Doklam, possibly hoping Modi got a bloody nose.If internal and external security of the country are involved, a leftitute is damned if he cared. The Indian government is to be shown as wrong in every circumstance.
The above is only sampler to help you notice the pattern of leftitutes hunting together.
Let me say this again: the ‘left’ in the portmanteau word is not the traditional economic left. It is opposite of the ‘right’ - as in, NOT the ‘right’ thing for anyone to be doing without his integrity being called.
I must also state I intend no slight on millions of honest sex-workers who practice a similar trade for their survival.
Hey… wait a minute. I may have just stumbled upon an ameliorating circumstance for leftitutes  to be practicing an equivalent trade. Perhaps their survival depends on it? Maybe they don’t mind so much that the Hindus are coming together to keep and support Modi in office. What scares them is that Modi may succeed in his job. Maybe he’ll end up convincing Muslims and all layers of Hindus, that he stands for Indians' collective well-being.
Then their game will be up.That could be a genuine terror that engulfs a leftitute. At least, that’s about the only reason I can see for the ideologically bereft stragglers coming together.
Their survival depends on Modi failing at his job.
So here’s the word ‘leftitute’ given under copy-left terms. Oops…

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