Posted on 04/12/2022 3:55:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Why, I wonder, do my colleagues speak "equity-speak."
It’s a distinct idiom. It has its own words and phrases, along with its own meanings and expectations. Top envoys in corporate settings are titled “chief equity officers.” Their consciousness-raising endeavors are called “building organizational understanding.” Employees undergoing this training become “agents of change.” They then disseminate the new knowledge to achieve “programmatic growth.” The resulting mutual surveillance of words and behaviors is called “monitoring mechanisms.” And the never-ending nature of this cultural reconditioning “ensures institutional sustainability.”
Where did my colleagues learn this equity language? How did it seep into their consciousness? Do they fully understand its import?
Our collaborative review of grant applications yielded the conclusion that the word “minoritized” was O.K. -- because “it is increasingly accepted and used.”
Is this just unthinking docility? Or do my colleagues intend to project standpoint epistemology and structural essentialism into existence, with the attendant nonsense of race adjacency, political race identities, and "race treason"? Have they thought through these implications? Do they ask any questions about this language they barely spoke not so long ago?
The generations-long habit of sneering at history laid important groundwork for the adoption of "equity-speak." For a half century or more, we’ve fostered a disposition of moral distance from the past. We’ve encouraged modes of expression that insinuate our present elevation, not just in technology, wealth, or social improvement, but in moral understanding and being.
This felt moral status informs our reactions to events far and wide.
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Leftists are the malignant cancer cells of society.
From Wikipedia:
Lingua Tertii Imperii studies the way that Nazi propaganda altered the German language to inculcate people with the ideas of Nazism. The book was written under the form of personal notes which Klemperer wrote in his diary, especially from the rise of the Nazi regime in 1933, and even more after 1935, when Klemperer, was stripped of his academic title because he was of Jewish descent. His diary became a notebook in which he noted and commented on the linguistic relativity of the German used by Nazi officials, ordinary citizens, and even fellow Jews. Klemperer wrote the book, based on his notes, in 1945–1946.
LTI demonstrates changes in the German language in most of the population. In contrast, the text also emphasizes the idea that resistance to oppression begins by questioning the constant use of buzzwords. Both the book and its author unexpectedly survived the war. LTI was first published in 1947 in Germany.
It underlines odd constructions of words intended to give a "scientific" or neutral aspect to otherwise heavily engaged discourses, as well as significant every-day behaviour.
It is an Orwellian religion.
The left enables islam.
Nuff said.
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