{"id":18765,"date":"2021-12-08T01:10:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T08:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18765"},"modified":"2021-12-08T01:10:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T08:10:18","slug":"newspeak-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/12\/08\/newspeak-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspeak In Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18766\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/george-orwell-newspeak-quote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/george-orwell-newspeak-quote.jpg 435w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/george-orwell-newspeak-quote-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Languages evolve. What we are seeing now is the linguistic equivalent of (un)intelligent design\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One last point about Latinx &amp; other &quot;gender inclusive&quot; language (incl. pronouns) that I think gets overlooked&#8230;most of it is coming from academia\/activist communities and effectively focus tested in the most sympathetic circles, it gives a false impression of efficacy.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nathaniel Horadam, Rivian-in-Georgia Enthusiast (@NW_Horadam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NW_Horadam\/status\/1467939305628839942?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Language constantly evolves, but in past eras we didn&#39;t have massive social science departments, a DEI consulting industry, and a network of non-profit orgs. available to push a concerted agenda. So this is far more deliberate, and less organic, than many other previous shifts.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nathaniel Horadam, Rivian-in-Georgia Enthusiast (@NW_Horadam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NW_Horadam\/status\/1467940068321071104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When top-down language transformations occurred in the past, you typically had an authoritarian regime, monarchical, nationalist, or otherwise to impose it.<\/p>\n<p>This push is coming through a free and open society, where people have long not liked being told what they should say.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nathaniel Horadam, Rivian-in-Georgia Enthusiast (@NW_Horadam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NW_Horadam\/status\/1467940643100151810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So what starts as a .1% thing bubbling up through academia into the non-profit\/activist space and captures 2-3%, and then thru DEI industry &amp; other politically-engaged folks gets to 15-20%&#8230;rapidly gives activists the impression this is good, necessary, *and* effective language.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nathaniel Horadam, Rivian-in-Georgia Enthusiast (@NW_Horadam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NW_Horadam\/status\/1467941478727045132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When you hit serious resistance at 30%-40%, you&#39;re so convinced &quot;this is the right &amp; necessary thing to do&quot; that everyone who doesn&#39;t adopt it is either &quot;merely unenlightened&quot; or a flat-out bigot.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s a toxic mentality both for social cohesion &amp; progressive political fortunes.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nathaniel Horadam, Rivian-in-Georgia Enthusiast (@NW_Horadam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NW_Horadam\/status\/1467942486836490247?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Newspeak In Action\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Languages evolve.  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What we are seeing now is the linguistic equivalent of (un)intelligent design\u2026 One last point about Latinx &amp; other &quot;gender inclusive&quot; language (incl. pronouns) that I think gets overlooked&#8230;most of it is coming from academia\/activist communities and effectively &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/12\/08\/newspeak-in-action\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[65,24,48],"class_list":["post-18765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-doom","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18767,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18765\/revisions\/18767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}