Identity Politics and the English Language

a reply to: burgerbuddy

Gia Sou phile...Ouzo or Raki...anyday....I have tried to appreciate retsina and Greek beers a few times to no avail

a reply to: SprocketUK

Removing ways for someone to express their ideas stifles those very ideas. This is at the heart of the "PC" type of censorship. The eradication of non compliant thoughts and ideas.

Consciousness and language go hand in hand. Once the words are not available so all forms of resistance never enter the consciousness.

www.marxists.org...

The relationship between consciousness and speech is not simply coexistence and mutual influence, but a unity in which consciousness plays the decisive role. As the reflection of reality, consciousness "moulds" the forms and dictates the laws of its existence in the form of speech. Consciousness is always a verbally expressed reflection: if there is no language there can be no consciousness. And no deaf mutes or blind-deaf mutes who have received even a little training would deny this general principle: they have their own special language. And only out of ignorance can it be maintained that these people think barely on the basis of visual images.