With my sincere apologies, this came across my screen and seemed worth sharing. The University of British Columbia created an Anti-Racism and Inclusion Excellence Task Force, which issued its report. It begins with the usual Canadian land acknowledgement, which is obligatory even if they’re not giving the land back.
We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territories of the xwməθkwəyˇəm (Musqueam), Skwxwu7mesh (Squamish), səlˇilwəta? (Tsleil-Waututh) and the Syilx Okanagan Nation.
Included in the report is the definition of the word “truthing.”
Truthing: the act of stating truths on subject matter considered difficult and/or dangerous knowledge in contexts of hyper policing, surveilling, and micro-managing of racialized bodies. Truthing emerges from critically informed, situated, embodied and grounded knowing that unpacks and/or illuminates complex systems and structural patterns of a problem or issue; while simultaneously addressing power relations and injustices which actively interrogates the discomfort, denial, disavowal, erasure, and censure that accompanies truthing the subject-matter. Truthing aims to bring about meaningful listening respect, transformation, and change in aggressive (overt and covert) power dynamics between oppressors and oppressed peoples. Truthing centres the knowledge of persons and/or groups whose histories, world-views, experiences, memories, modes of analysis, and reflexive insights are systemically excluded, downplayed, diminished, and/or actively resisted by dominant group members whose historical consciousness, reasoning, rationales, and worlding activities actively (conscious/ subconsciously) reproduce systemic power hierarchies. Often, truthing is situated in multi-dimensional auto-narrative modalities, (including diverse linguistic traditions, arts and performance, healing processes, support circles/collectives, testimonials, Commissions, Listening Sessions and Task Forces) and result in the unsettling and interrogation of hegemonic belief systems and orders.
I hope this helps and wish everyone happy truthing.
H/T Jonathon Kay
Ok then. Now that I’ve consumed this word salad as an appitizer, it’s off to the diner for their greasy fried pork tenderloin breakfast.
Who’s hogging all the aspirin? I need a fistful after reading that word salad.
What in actual fuck did I just read?
Somehow I feel like I know less after reading this than I did before.
I lost about 50 Million brain cells reading that and I can’t afford it. Plus, that’s 3 minutes of my life I’ll never get back.
Impressive. Authentic Frontier Gibberish l, nut impressive all the same.
jvb
Replace the words “truthing” and “truth” with “lying” and “lies.” It makes more sense and is more honest.
I ran the text through a readability test.
The result…
Flesch Reading Ease score: -14.4 (text scale)
Flesch Reading Ease scored your text: impossible to comprehend.
So I’m guessing it was written by a progressive lawyer with a bachelors in grievance studies.
Talk about overselling. They must have read Kim Jung-un’s book “A Messiah’s Guide to Branding.”
“Truthing aims to bring about meaningful listening respect, transformation, and change in aggressive (overt and covert) power dynamics between oppressors and oppressed peoples.”
Just wait for the performance review. Wait, there are no performance reviews?
This did help me. It reminded me of Mencken’s essay on Thorstein Veblen’s work, which I had not thought of in quite some time:
“It was, and is, impossible to imagine worse English, within the limits of intelligible grammar. It was clumsy, affected, opaque, bombastic, windy, empty. It was without grace or distinction and it was often without the most elementary order.”
Thanks.
William Shakespeare.
“ Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.”
And the sad part is that the author actually thinks they wrote something meaningful.
Veblen bad
Wow.
And the woke wonder why people don’t take them seriously.
Incomprehensible gibberish.
If you’re gonna make word salad, add music. Word salad goes down better with music.
Fair point… and funny, but damn it’s going to be a while before I hear that song the same way again.
After careful consideration, though, I think Hunter’s lyrics make more sense. They’re certainly more vivid.
I recall reading that Hunter wrote China Cat Sunflower as a sound poem with vivid imagery to be interpreted by the listener. He succeeded because it doesn’t try to force an interpretation on the listener like the subject of this blawg post does upon the unfortunate reader.
Orwell couldn’t have come up with this one.
Paragraphs can be your friend.
Basic English composition can be a better friend.
Had a case once where they interrogated a hegemonic belief systems, but the judge excluded it because they failed to give the Miranda warnings. See what I did there?
Sounds like Alan Sokal is up to it again!
It’s not a song, and yet, it seems appropriate. My brain shut down after the first sentence out of a sense of self preservation.
I give up on making that video work 🙁 I’m too dumb for comments
[Ed. Note: And you don’t have video privileges here, although I’ll let this one slide.]