Omekongo Dibinga, PhD — Trigger Words: How Political Language Has Made America Less Inclusive (And How to Bring Us Back Together) - with Dr. Nola Haynes — at Conn Ave

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Trigger Words examines how language in the United States has been manipulated and politicized to sow division and dehumanization, rather than to encourage inclusion and equity. From "woke" to "DEI" to "CRT," words that once emerged from marginalized communities to speak truth to power have been weaponized by conservative movements—especially the MAGA wing of the Republican Party—to stoke fear, shut down dialogue, and preserve systems of oppression. At the same time, however, language has been coopted by many in liberal spaces in watered down ways that remove the overall message that was intended to be communicated by said language, such as switching terminology from "homeless" to "unhoused," "African American" to "BIPOC," or "Latino" to "Latinx."This incisive and thoug…

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