From “Inclusion” to “Belonging”. Reformers must oppose DEI’s latest existential standard.

James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | October 18, 2023 | Adam Ellwanger

[karpov]

The manipulation of language is an ongoing strategy for disrupting the traditional values and beliefs of American society. Across the broader Western world, cultural revolutionaries wage a relentless campaign to change the vocabulary of everyday citizens, claiming for themselves a sovereign right to police violations of the new nomenclature. “Prostitution” has become “sex work.” “Illegal immigrants” have become “migrant workers.” Sex differences have been eclipsed by talk of “gender identity.” These changes are often spearheaded by activists in our universities.

Such constant changes ensure that regular Americans are often uncertain about which words are acceptable in polite society and which have been deemed crimethink. This uncertainty makes everyday people more reticent to participate in public discourse, fearful that they might give offense or come off as uninformed. Fearfulness, in turn, incentivizes silence among those who might otherwise be effective critics of the agenda of radicals on the political left. That’s part of the plan.

Although it’s almost impossible to keep track of all the new terminology, one recent linguistic manipulation poses a particularly serious threat to our institutions. To what example of Newspeak do I refer? “Belonging.”

In higher education, the concept of belonging is the most recent addition to the hodge-podge of aspirational ideals—“diversity,” “equity,” “access,” and “inclusion”—that displace the true mission of our colleges and universities. But employers in the corporate world are also increasingly concerned with belonging. Before explaining why belonging is a rhetorical Trojan Horse, it is helpful to provide some instances of how the term is used in the wild.

[Liz]

Western Europe and the U.S. are both learning the hard way
<><>”diversity” is a prelude to anarchy
<><>diversity destroys the nation-state
<><>its bosom buddy “tolerance” kills it dead
<><>”tolerance” foments a system that can no longer maintain structural integrity,
<><>tolerance makes the system simply come apart.
<><>”tolerance,” is culturally dangerous
<><>sap-happily employed by lefties to “push boundaries” and “break barriers.”
<><>tolerance destroys historic norms
<><>tolerance ushers in moral anarchy in the name of “righting wrongs.”
<><>a “tolerant” society is one under mortal attack;
<><>with the perversion of its definition, it effectively prevents fighting back.
<><>a “tolerant” society is a defenseless society and thus a doomed society.

[Liz]

breitbart.com 10/16/23-——French President Emmanuel Macron called for all radical Islamist migrants residing in France to be removed from the country in the wake of the suspected Islam-inspired assassination of a middle school teacher on Friday.

President Macron has tasked Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin to carry out a “ruthless” examination of the files of those who “carry hatred and terrorist ideologies” over the next 48 hours in order to remove foreign-born Islamists from France, Le Figaro reports.

It comes after Dominique Bernard, a middle school teacher in the city of Arras, was allegedly stabbed to death by a suspected Islamist named Mohamed Mogouchkov. The Russian-born suspect was reportedly on the country’s extremist watch list — referred to as having an “S file” — prior to the attack and had also reportedly been subject to a deportation order in 2014 that was successfully quashed by appeals from pro-migrant groups.

Darmanin has said out of the over 20,000 S files — not all of which remain active — there are at least 489 extremist foreigners who are considered to be a danger to the country residing in France. A further 300 radical foreigners are currently in prison or under house arrest. The minister said that the government will seek to “systematically deport” them following the end of their prison sentence.

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[Pontiac]

How can this new Belonging possibly work in the real world?

How are you going to accommodate all of these authentic people in the work place?

If you can’t discriminate in hiring in any respect you can have a flamboyant gay, an orthodox Muslim, a transgender man and an Orthodox Jew all in the same work place.

How can you possibly make them all feel they belong when their “authentic” selves are polar opposite of their co-workers?

Not only is the standard impossible to measure but it is simply impossible to enforce or achieve. It is simply a license to sue your employer out of existence.

[sima_yi]

Sex differences have been eclipsed by talk of “gender identity.”

Genital mutilation is now called "gender affirming surgery".

[lepton]

“Inclusiveness”, as DEI defines it is inherently hostile and decisive.

[lepton]

Grr. Autocorrect.

Inclusiveness”, as DEI defines it is inherently hostile and divisive.

[joshua c]

destruction of the meritocracy