We need to talk about the racialized politics of voice level. It's not an accident that both the Jewish Sanders and the POC in the Squad are berated for being "loud."https://twitter.com/alexkotch/status/1178347795163570176 …
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There's a class element in this as well. Working class speech is heard as "loud."
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Telling an old Jewish working class guy from Brooklyn that he's loud is ... a trope.
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Right, Bernie is talking at the normal decibel level of his culture. In a pluralist society we need to respect that.
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People's diction, accents, and general vocal personality gets formed before they are 20. Unless they are a professional actor, that's very hard to change.
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