{"id":271348,"date":"2023-07-22T05:57:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T05:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=271348"},"modified":"2023-07-24T07:31:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T07:31:50","slug":"the-guardian-avoid-using-the-term-wealthy-elite-and-instead-say-the-powerful-few-to-not-trigger-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=271348","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian: Avoid Using The Term \u2018Wealthy Elite\u2019 And Instead Say \u2018The Powerful Few\u2019 to Not \u2018Trigger Antisemitism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Chris Menahan \u2013 Information Liberation July 19, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Criticizing the &#8220;wealthy elite&#8221; is anti-Semitic, according to new speech codes from the &#8220;Reframing Race initiative&#8221; covered by the Guardian on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/18\/avoid-phrases-that-link-negativity-with-blackness-anti-racism-report-recommends\">The Guardian, &#8220;Avoid phrases that link negativity with blackness, anti-racism report recommends&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Phrases and words that link negativity with blackness and positivity with whiteness \u2013 such as &#8220;black mood&#8221;, &#8220;dark times&#8221; or &#8220;whiter than white&#8221; \u2013 reinforce racist connotations and should be avoided, an anti-racism initiative has recommended.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Reframing Race has put together a report titled Contains Strong Language to equip anti-racism and racial inequality campaigners with the words that have proven most effective in persuading people of the &#8220;harm and structural nature of racism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The guide says associating whiteness with purity, cleanliness and goodness, and blackness with evil and destruction serves to &#8220;reinforce harmful tropes and the constructed racial hierarchy in which &#8216;black and minoritised&#8217; people are pushed to the bottom&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It also suggests <strong>using images or visual descriptions that apply only to white people \u2013 such as &#8220;blushing red&#8221;, &#8220;ashen faces&#8221; or &#8220;lips turning blue&#8221; risks othering black or minoritised people and should be avoided.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">[&#8230;] <strong>Other recommendations include avoiding the phrase &#8220;white working class&#8221; and rather using &#8220;multi-ethnic working class&#8221; or &#8220;working-class people of all ethnicities&#8221; because the use of the former wrongly excludes black and minoritised people from the class group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It also suggests avoiding the use of the term &#8220;wealthy elite&#8221; and rather saying &#8220;the powerful few&#8221; as the former phrase can trigger antisemitism and feed the conspiracy theories of far-right white nationalists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said a few years ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=59782\">he prefers the term &#8220;people of means.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Instead of using the word &#8220;racism&#8221;, campaigners should talk about the &#8220;ideology of racism&#8221; or the &#8220;practice of racism&#8221; as overuse of the standalone term racism without additional information or context can create an &#8220;unavoidable fog&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Other recommendations including referring to ethnic minority people rather than ethnic minorities as the latter term is dehumanising.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The shifting goalposts is just comical. It&#8217;s even funnier that some of these sayings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/republican-partys-multiethnic-working-class-coalition-taking-shape-opinion-1658050\">are being pushed from the top down on the GOP by &#8220;the powerful few.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/newsweek-multi-ethnic-party.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-271349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/newsweek-multi-ethnic-party.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/newsweek-multi-ethnic-party.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/newsweek-multi-ethnic-party-480x311.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 693px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Just last week, GOP leader Kevin McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/not-acceptable-mccarthy-condemns-gop-house-members-use-of-term-colored-people\/\">canceled Republican Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona because he accidentally said &#8220;colored people&#8221; instead of &#8220;people of color.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=63866\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mouthpiece for the liberal faction of the New World Order, The Guardian, issues new language guidelines for the politically correct <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":271351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,53,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-mind_control","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271353,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271348\/revisions\/271353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/271351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}