Since the 90s I've felt identity left puts too much energy into language as an agent for social change but I also feel that centrist liberals & conservatives put too much energy into resisting language changes as a way of upholding the status quo. Language isn't that important!
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Yeah, but then there are laws
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Laws are meaningless without the guns to uphold them.
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If you work with symbols and information all day, you're of course aware of how powerful they can be, and that makes it easy to fall into magical thinking.
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How do you create cross-identity solidarity when some of the workers still refer to the others by the n-word? Imo language is a wedge that has led to a lot more possibilities.
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See also: Sidney Hook, "I don't get Kenneth Burke"
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https://www.kbjournal.org/benedict_giamo "Shitney Hook." lol
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Love u but disagree. Language, symbology, semiotics, those are part of constructing our social realities. Now, I can roll with a "people put too much importance on small language transgressions" but language itself is how we interpret material realities in the first place.
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Interesting to think of the tensions. I have learned from folks that in the face of social injustices and the slow pace of change (for those living and suffering now), language offers both a real and imaginal world to exist and survive in. Material worlds burn them out.
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Perhaps your observation on time spent on language reflects the real lives of the people on the left who have spent so much time on language? That they are, in fact, the most vulnerable and victimized by the material realities that, like language, resists them. Burns them out.
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talk about the medium undermining the message
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