Steven Hayward:
But here’s the thing for the identitarians scrambling to find new euphemisms: It won’t work. “Diversity, equity, and inclusion” are the holy trinity of this racket—their “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.” This is literally true: like land acknowledgements, the invocations of DEI sound like an academic version of the Nicene Creed. Have you ever noticed that virtually every DEI proclamation sounds exactly the same? (In fact, Vanderbilt University’s DEI office got caught a few years ago using AI to compose some DEI messages.)
The point is: the DEI racket depends on a common vocabulary of cliches. If they have to modulate their language, the way Star Trek ships modulate their shields against enemy particle beams, the identitarians won’t know what to say. It is just like the scrambling of the languages at the Tower of Babel. They will need endless translations for everyone to understand that they are the same old comrades hating on white people. If you think the identitarian racket is absurd now, it will be even more comical when they have to speak in ever more esoteric and ridiculous coded language. The whole DEI racket was Orwellian already; now it will be beyond even Orwell’s imagination.
# posted by Ranger @ 6:06 PM
