They're paid government employees who work in a large bureaucracy. When we use their words we're playing on their field. Don't give 'em that...
“They’re NOT a ‘community’...
They’re paid government employees who work in a large bureaucracy. When we use their words we’re playing on their field. Don’t give ‘em that... “
Very good point. I agree entirely. They are unelected, and therefore marginally accountable, government employees who act in their own self-interests, guided by their own biases.
Her larger point still stands. (And I would argue that the ‘community’ descriptor is apt.)