Posted on 04/27/2021 11:42:11 AM PDT by blam
Longtime Democrat strategist James Carville told Vox on Tuesday that "wokeness is a problem" for the party "and we all know it."
Carville added that despite success in the 2020 elections, Democrats have a "messaging problem."
"If we’re just talking about [President Joe Biden] Biden, it’s very difficult to find something to complain about," Carville said. "And to me his biggest attribute is that he’s not into 'faculty lounge’ politics."
Carville explained.
"You ever get the sense that people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges use a different language than ordinary people?," he said. "They come up with a word like 'Latinx' that no one else uses. Or they use a phrase like 'communities of color.' I don’t know anyone who speaks like that. I don’t know anyone who lives in a 'community of color.' I know lots of white and Black and brown people and they all live in ... neighborhoods.
"There’s nothing inherently wrong with these phrases. But this is not how people talk. This is not how voters talk. And doing it anyway is a signal that you’re talking one language and the people you want to vote for you are speaking another language. This stuff is harmless in one sense, but in another sense it’s not."
Carville added, "We have to talk about race. We should talk about racial injustice,” but "we need to do it without using jargon-y language that’s unrecognizable to most people — including most Black people, by the way — because it signals that you’re trying to talk around them."
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SJWs on steroids.
I agree, and as others have pointed out, Carville is smart enough to know this. Language is being carefully tailored to take open political discourse (the very heart of the 1st Amendment) and turn it into a one-way street.
Carville focuses on the "problem" being a potential disconnect between the academics and ordinary voters, when in fact he should be more concerned with where this all leads (and we do have recent examples).
Old Snake Head,
Well said Cloud William.
Cultural Maoist Shameing,,,
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Woah Nelly!
"Around"? Gimme a break. It's more like talking DOWN to everyone who's not an 'elite'.. See tag...
Yeah. This should be an interesting summer.
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