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FEMININE LEFTIST DECEIT: RETROACTIVE CONTINUITY, “RETCON”, SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION, AND SEMANTIC MANIPULATION

Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is rhetorical to deceptive to fraudulent device in which facts that have been established through the evidence, essay, and narrative are adjusted, ignored, supplemented, or contradicted such that it recontextualizes or breaks continuity with the former.

Such RETCONNING in Social Construction under postmodernism as the attempt to decrease correspondence with empiricism and increase correspondence with ideology.

Social Construction:
Social constructionism, particularly as expressed in postmodernist thought, amounts to a deliberate attempt to erode the primacy of empirical evidence and objective truth in favor of relativistic ideological narratives. By asserting that reality is primarily a product of social and cultural context rather than observable facts, social constructionists can justify and promote ideological agendas under the guise of academic inquiry. In this view, the claim that knowledge is ‘socially constructed’ is a way to decrease correspondence with empiricism and increase correspondence with ideology – essentially a rhetorical strategy for privileging certain political and philosophical commitments over dispassionate, evidence-based analysis.”

Semantic Shift, Manipulation, or Engineering
refers to the phenomenon where the meaning of a word changes over time, often due to social, cultural, or political factors.

There are several types of semantic change:
Broadening: When a word’s meaning becomes more inclusive or general over time.
Narrowing: When a word’s meaning becomes more specific or restricted over time.
Amelioration: When a word’s meaning becomes more positive over time.
Pejoration: When a word’s meaning becomes more negative over time.
Semantic drift: When a word’s meaning gradually shifts in a different direction over time.
In the case of “liberal,” the term has undergone a semantic shift, particularly in the United States, where it has come to be associated with left-leaning or progressive political ideologies, rather than its original meaning related to classical liberalism, which emphasized individual rights, free markets, and limited government intervention.

The intentional manipulation of a term’s meaning for political or ideological purposes could also be described as “semantic manipulation” or “semantic engineering.”