Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Pamela Newsgroups: alt.usage.english Subject: Re: "Black female forever journalist" Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 19:24:34 GMT Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 64 Message-ID: References: Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="462419e4187454557b00977aba064034"; logging-data="2779151"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+G2uqCupSVpFAI/zxxcVLq7qmSpTR6Nb8=" User-Agent: Xnews/2009.05.01 Cancel-Lock: sha1:S0tr6PoLvsJFj4eo8r31PMxhE+o= Bytes: 3965 On 13:08 25 Feb 2023, Athel Cornish-Bowden said: > On 2023-02-25 12:46:28 +0000, Pamela said: >> >> The following article refers to a "Black female forever journalist". >> >> I am not clear by the use of "forever" and what it attaches to. >> >> Is the author saying she is "black forever", "female forever" or >> something else? >> >> REFERENCE: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/6851/ "Gatekeeping >> Blackness: Roles, Relationships, and Pressures of Black Television >> Journalists at a Time of Racial Reckoning" > > Anyone who can write "Through my positionality as a Black female > forever journalist, I interviewed..." is not to be taken seriously as > a writer of clear English. Unclear Emglish seems to be the chosen modus operandi of modern race activists, such as that author. I am reminded of a section in James Lindsay's book "Race Marxism" in which he explain some of the methods. An extract is below. =================== START ==================== The Critical Inversion of Language As has already been indicated, virtually all of these manipulations are rooted in other manipulations, such as the telling of counterstories to manipulate emotions and the application of revisionist history to drive a particular agenda that carries the veneer of history. Central to this entire tactic, however, is the deliberate abuse of language. Critical Theories of all kinds abuse language by adopting highly specialized and contextual definitions for otherwise familiar words. In fact, they invert the meanings of everyday words. This tactic is sometimes summarized under the maxim, "Communists share your vocabulary but not your dictionary." Another simple rule of thumb that must be applied is every Woke term conceals an agenda. Some of these linguistic inversions will be familiar to the reader already without having to make much case. The terms "racism" (replaced by something to do with "systems") and "antiracism" (which is a lifelong commitment to being a Critical Race Theorist, according to Robin DiAngelo, and, according to Ibram Kendi, taking up discrimination) are obvious examples. So are the terms "Critical" (which transmogrifies the notion of critical thinking into doing Critical Theory, as we just saw from Alison Bailey), "race" (as we saw in chapter 1 in the conspiratorial definition of the term favored by Critical Race Theorists), and "Theory" (which means Marxian Theory, not scientific theory—with this same manipulation also being applied to "science," as we saw in the previous chapter as well). Also briefly mentioned in the previous chapter is the idea of "democracy," which in Marxian Theory must presuppose Communism (or equity and "justice," another manipulated term) to be "true" democracy. Of some note, this manipulative distortion of language also applies to the important terms "diversity" and "inclusion," which retain almost nothing of their original meanings except by almost direct inversion. [snip] =================== END ====================