Don’t Use Passive Language To Describe Active Injustice

The terms we use determine the directions we’ll choose

Tim Wise

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Words matter: the ones we choose and those we don’t when seeking to convey information, especially about social and political issues.

They can transmit thoughts clearly, or, chosen haphazardly, can muddy the waters of communication, confusing the listener…

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Tim Wise

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)