Basically if you don’t use the word “black” in a positive manner, you are a racist.
The term ‘blacklisted’ is racist, US warns its spies: Intelligence community newsletter offers advice on ‘linguistic diversity’ and advice from a crossdressing spook, by David Millward, Telegraph.com, March 24, 2024
US spies, including members of the CIA, have been told the term “blacklisted” is racist in an internal diversity newsletter which also offered advice from a crossdresser.
The guidance has been included in The Dive, a newsletter circulated by the intelligence community’s diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility office.
According to Fox News Digital, which has analysed the document, it is packed with diversity guidance aimed at improving the accuracy of language used by the intelligence community.
One of the articles, discussing linguistic diversity, has urged officials to refrain from using the term “blacklisted”.
This is because it implies “black is bad and white is good”. The term “sanity check” is discouraged because it is disparaging towards people with mental illness.
“Cakewalk” and “grandfathered” are also no longer regarded as acceptable because of their association with slavery.
In another article, an anonymous intelligence officer writes that his crossdressing habit has made him more effective in his role.
“I am an intelligence officer, and I am a man who likes to wear women’s clothes sometimes,” the author wrote. “I think my experiences as someone who crossdresses have sharpened the skills I use as an intelligence officer, particularly critical thinking and perspective-taking.
“It is challenging for some people to understand crossdressing, and non-binary or genderfluid people because gender is a part of overall identity,” he added. “Many of us think of our identities as fixed, and some find this approach to gender threatening to their own identity.”
Crossdressing also enabled him to better understand his female and LGBT colleagues, he said.
In another section of the newsletter, an intelligence officer warned that previous training had conflated Islam with terrorism and cautioned that the language alienated spies’ Muslim-American colleagues.
How many people believe if you say, “a company is in the black,” automatically means you are being racist, and is yet again grounds for trying to end ”racism” in 2024 America?
Wasn’t The Blacklist a cool show starring James Spader?
