Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Fiddling around with linguistics does nothing to eradicate racism

Up front, let’s concede that this column’s peg is of nominal importance. Yet last week’s announcement that The New York Times will hereafter capitalise “black” when “describing people and cultures of African origin” is nevertheless a window on the genuflections of the moment.

[I wonder if this will apply to reports of black crime -- JR]

In a statement explaining the policy change, the editorial decision is portrayed as a direct result of the George Floyd protests last month. The typographical tweak is an inexpensive – one is tempted to say cheap – gesture, if only to soothe the products of university identity politics who’ve all but taken over America’s purported “paper of record”. The upper-casing of “black” is an act of relatively effortless pandering, both to young, woke staff, and to the larger Black Lives Matter movement. What the change does not do, of course, is remotely improve the lot of black people in real terms or diminish prejudice

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Changing the name is an oft tried exercise in futility as all the baggage of the name being shunned in favor of the new name follows to the new name anyway.

I don't care if you call them liberals, progressives or lefties because no matter the name they're still perfectly clueless about how the real world works.

ScienceABC123 said...

The Left takes a respected word (liberal, progressive) applies it to themselves to give them the appearance of high value, but all they really do is just rip all meaning out of those words. The fact is the Left is not liberal, nor progressive.

Bird of Paradise said...

Whats next on their hit list Predatorial Animals? Just you wait their next on the hit list from the Snowflakes