"14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. Newspeak was invented by Orwell, in *1984*, as the official language of Ingsoc, English Socialism. But elements of Ur-Fascism are common to different forms of dictatorship. All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning. But we must be ready to identify other kinds of Newspeak, even if they take the apparently innocent form of a popular talk show."
### Commentary
Per Wikipedia, the purpose of Newspeak 
"is to facilitate the communication of facts, not the communication of abstract thought." Also:
> Newspeak is spoken in staccato rhythm, using short words that are easy to pronounce, so that speech is physically automatic and intellectually unconscious [...]
I'd say that modern Newspeak is more geared toward the communication of attitude than of fact. The style is more florid and exaggerated, more akin to Homeric boasting than Newspeak's "duckspeak."
Like Orwell's Newspeak, modern Newspeak uses new words with condensed meanings ("cuck," "soy boy") rather than phrases. Often, the words are repurposed ("woke," "DEI"), frequently with the effect of overwriting original meanings.
Unlike jargon, such words aren't meant to be precise. Like shibboleths , they are meant to distinguish between in- and out-groups.
Characteristically, accusations of modern Newspeak can be met with "but they do it too". But the question isn't either/or, it's "how much"?
Unlike Orwell's unconscious speech, perhaps modern Newspeak is meant to be deployed consciously, as a way of affirming to oneself one's positioning in "the culture wars."
And to feel smug. Ingsoc's citizens aren't to think of themselves as thinkers – they're not supposed to think *at all* – whereas out here in reality, the better tactic is to make the recruit think they're "intellectually independent," or part of the Intellectual Dark Web , while encouraging language that's trite and repetitive, leading to thoughts that are trite and repetitive. (I think Orwell overdoes it in Politics and the English Language , but he was onto something.)
It's interesting that modern Newspeak leans heavily on lofty, abstract concepts to facilitate doublethink . Somehow repetition of the abstraction acts to hide its actual violation. "Free speech" will become the classic example.