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The Language of Privilege

Summarizing Nicholas Clairmont in Tablet · Published Tuesday, September 29, 2020
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JL;DR SUMMARY Nicholas Clairmont critiques the language associated with "wokeness," suggesting it is a complex dialect that ostensibly aims to empower marginalized communities but actually fortifies existing power structures, favoring the elite. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jews  Classical Music  Racism  Privilege  Language  Systemic Discrimination  Wokeness  Media Critique  Elite Structures  Trans Women Of Color 

Places mentioned

Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Because I live in Brooklyn, work in journalism, went to private school and a reasonably fancy college, and am friends primarily with workers in the information economy, I can speak fluent wokese."
Alabama, United States
"The bill, drafted by Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Richard Shelby, R-Ala., would deposit $2.2 billion in Pentagon shipbuilding accounts, boost missile defense systems in California and Alaska and deliver about $1.4 billion for C-130 transport planes and F-35 fighters manufactured by Lockheed Martin Corp."
California, United States
"The bill, drafted by Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Richard Shelby, R-Ala., would deposit $2.2 billion in Pentagon shipbuilding accounts, boost missile defense systems in California and Alaska and deliver about $1.4 billion for C-130 transport planes and F-35 fighters manufactured by Lockheed Martin Corp."
New York, United States
"The classical-music institutions that emerged in the mid- and late nineteenth centurythe New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera, and the likebecame temples to European gods, as Lawrence Levine argued in his 1988 book, Highbrow/Lowbrow."
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"The classical-music institutions that emerged in the mid- and late nineteenth centurythe New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera, and the likebecame temples to European gods, as Lawrence Levine argued in his 1988 book, Highbrow/Lowbrow."
San Francisco, California, United States
"Take this exchange between Tablet contributor Wesley Yang and Jeremy C. Owens, tech editor and San Francisco bureau chief of MarketWatch, the investment news site."
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
"For one thing, it is very hard for some people to acknowledge that there are some specific areas of American life where being nonwhite is a career advantage, even as it is perfectly obvious that white Americans have been and continue to be favored by many laws and social structures in America. A bright graduate of a Kansas City prep school is also likely to know that being Jewish is not an advantage if her interest is in publishing a book like Fugitive Modernities: Kisama and the Politics of Freedom and to get tenure."
Bronx, New York, United States
"Krug had claimed to take part in North African Blackness, US rooted Blackness, and Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness, according to a sweeping list of her crimes in The New Yorker."
Montgomery, Alabama, United States
"Some of the F-35s could be delivered to an Air National Guard unit in Montgomery, Alabama."
Alaska, United States
"The bill, drafted by Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Richard Shelby, R-Ala., would deposit $2.2 billion in Pentagon shipbuilding accounts, boost missile defense systems in California and Alaska and deliver about $1.4 billion for C-130 transport planes and F-35 fighters manufactured by Lockheed Martin Corp."

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