In writing of Brandeis University's disinviting Ayaan Hirsi Ali to receive an honorary degree, Charles C. W. Cooke says (and I totally agree):
I object to the use of “phobic” on the grounds that, where once it meant something useful and concrete, it has now been hijacked by our self-appointed arbiters of taste and transmuted into a multipurpose cudgel against dissent.
I also like this observation:
Prepossessed as he was with the all-encompassing wars of his era, George Orwell complained that political language was “designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
To survive in the contemporary world, one must constantly deconstruct the deceptive language employed by political speech and propaganda.