Title : The idiocity of appropriating the ethnicity of the Other right when you're flaunting your racial progressiveness: Stop saying "sherpa"!
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The idiocity of appropriating the ethnicity of the Other right when you're flaunting your racial progressiveness: Stop saying "sherpa"!
Cutter guided Sonia Sotomayor through the process, and some of the discussion is good:
[P]utting the first Black woman on the Supreme Court will be celebrated by most Americans... [W]e were about to put the first Black woman on the court. That will be celebrated. The other thing that potentially could happen is some Republicans could overshoot this, and you already see some senators talking about how this is a quota pick or an affirmative action pick....
This person is not going to come off as an affirmative action pick. This person is going to come across as the most qualified person for the court, if you just look at the women on the proverbial short list. They can continue their racist dog whistles on this. But I think most people are not going to have the stomach for it, and it will turn around and bite them just to continue the dog analogy there.
That focuses the problem precisely: Democrats want to inspire a degree of celebration that feels good to their supporters and to tempt their antagonists to cry "affirmative action" in a manner that feels unkind to those who like that subject to be handled with discretion.
I checked to see if the NYT is using that word — the NYT represents the prevalent standard — and I found "White House Chooses Doug Jones to Guide Supreme Court Nominee/Once President Biden picks a nominee, Mr. Jones will introduce her to senators and prepare her for hearings" by Katie Rogers. There's no "sherpa" in the headline at the Times. The word comes up in the article, but it isn't used without acknowledgment of the source of the word:
Mr. Jones... will be a so-called Senate sherpa for the nominee. The nickname is borrowed from mountaineers of Tibetan descent who live across the Himalayas and are known for their ability to navigate travelers across hazardous terrain....
There's no discussion of the problem of using the name of a people as the term for a particular type of worker, and the article goes on to use the word 2 more times.
And I love the use of the word "borrowed" — "[t]he nickname is borrowed" — where the normal political usage of our day is "appropriated." You say "borrowed" when you're asking to get away with it. Try it next time you're caught stealing. I was only borrowing it. I was going to give it back.
I think The Washington Post has abandoned the term. The most recent article with "sherpa" and "court" was from February 2016.
As for the much-kicked-around CNN, they've got "sherpa" in their headline from 2 days ago: "Biden set to pick his Supreme Court nominee's 'sherpa' as the courting of McConnell and other senators begins."
Come on, you half-wokesters, it's time to stop.
Thus articles The idiocity of appropriating the ethnicity of the Other right when you're flaunting your racial progressiveness: Stop saying "sherpa"!
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