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It doesn’t discomfort me but annoys me. The language used. It never says “poor” people. In says “equity”, “justice”, “Black” (capital ‘B’), etc. It’s all coded
by nemo44x 4y ago
It doesn’t discomfort me but annoys me. The language used. It never says “poor” people. In says “equity”, “justice”, “Black” (capital ‘B’), etc.
It’s all coded (dog whistles) in garbage woke language.
- acdha 4y agoThe term equity seems appropriate because you don’t have to study American history for very long to realize how these things combine: someone is poor now because their community was redlined or got an interstate highway run through it during their grandfather’s era. If decision happened because most of the people living there were black and politically powerless, we can’t easily separate the two factors. Recognizing that is a first step of actually doing something: if the ill effects are unevenly distributed, doing something about it often requires getting people who are used to, say, thinking of a power plant as necessary and a source of jobs as also being responsible for conditions which they wouldn’t tolerate for their own children.