Everybody remembers when Joe Biden told us all we should "learn to code!"
I am uncertain if he even knew what that meant at the time, and I
suspect it was just something that a DNC drone placed in his ear.
However, if you take a slightly different understanding of what "code"
means to progressives, it all makes sense.
"Learn to code. We do!"
This past week, Hilaria Baldwin told America that the "world was mean to her" for being of mixed race, so...she learned to code. Code-Switch, that is. To progressives, code-switching is a viable and valuable practice and is defined by Britannica.com as:
the process of shifting from one linguistic code (a language or dialect) to another, depending on the social context or conversational setting...
For
Baldwin, it was justification for using a Spanish accent for many years
before she slipped up with her natural American accent and got caught
one day. Problem is, she never displayed the intentional practice of
going back and forth between accents to serve different groups before.
It was always Spanish, Spanish, Spanish until one day, as a guest on TV,
she pretended not to know the English word for "cucumber"
before slowly losing the accent. But she was just code-switching. Maybe
she assumed that the entire audience of Spanish speakers had suddenly
switched to Telemundo during commercial, only to be replaced by people
from Kansas. I don't know for sure, but It was....hilarious.
In
keeping with the new trend of code-switching, we have one of its
greatest employers, Jasmine Crockett, invoking that linguistic nuance
into her own professional congressional cadence every day. Originally
the beneficiary of good secondary schooling where proper English is
taught for $35,000 a year, young Jasmine once sounded like this. Today, she sounds like that. (same clip 20 seconds in) Why? Is it because now she represents Texas' 30th District,
where only 18 percent of the constituents are white, 40 percent are
black, and the balance is largely made up of Hispanics? Apparently, for
Crockett, code-switching from proper English down to the vulgate is
important to reach out to her voters — because, apparently, speaking
like an educated person just puts them all off. That seems like she's
sort of making a blanket assumption, as she does, but if Ted Cruz did it
(he's from the same district), he'd likely be roasted into next year.
Crockett won't because, with her immutable characteristics, she is
immune from Kryptonite. And the need for "authenticity."
Then you have this guy, state rep Justin J. Pearson (D-TN), who went from looking and sounding like a stockbroker to a supporting actor on Sanford & Son. You can see his before and after clips here
at about 6:29. It's amazing what growing out your hair can do for your
"authenticity." Anyway, more code-switching, and so I guess reversion is
now the way to go. Speak like you've rejected your education, and I
guess you send the message to your constituents that it's far better to
drop out of school and hang out on the corner. Bravo. Apologies to Mr. Frederick Douglass, but we prefer to sound like Snoop Dogg.
Toss in Ms. I Don't Feel No Ways Tired and Mr. Gonna Put Y'all Back in Chains! and
I'm just over here taking note of the trend. Academia seems to
acknowledge this code-switching phenomenon as a valid thing, and maybe
it is in their world because you can make all sorts of arguments in the
classroom that might be a crock when you try to apply them in the real
world. But for the aforementioned progressives, it does not seem to have
harmed them enough to destroy their careers. Harris got beat, but she
will probably be made a governor one day. Biden got coup'd, but only
because his mind evaporated. And Crockett? Well, she will probably hold a
seat in the House until she turns into a petrified log, as so many
other Democrats in Congress have already done.
I guess my point with all of this is, why don't their followers mind?
These people are transparent phonies. They don't hide anything.
Crockett et al. are aware that the internet never forgets, but they just
say, "Screw it, this is me now." And their voters don't seem
to mind one bit. You're a fake? Well, I don't mind fakes. I like your
persona now. How you look and sound is more important to me than what
you say. So there...
So there....well, sure, everybody's vote
counts, but I have to wonder about those who vote for such spurious,
shallow, and foolish reasons. I think they are just tools and fools
because not only are they willing to be used, they seem to revel in being used. Let me buy one of Jasmine's tee shirts where she misspelled her own name; I want to wear it in front of everyone I know.
The
people who they continue to vote for are inauthentic, disingenuous, and
openly contrast their former selves with their new "reimagined" selves.
Maybe this is just how the world works now for some folks, but I'd much
rather have a guy like Trump to support. He's like McDonald's: same
burger in Missouri that you get in California. You might not like the
recipe, but you always know what it will taste like. It doesn't try to
be Hardee's, and it doesn't act like a high-end pub burg. It's always a
TrumpBurg.
When you know what you're getting, you can always
decide if you want it or not. And if you don't understand the
progressive tactic of code-switching, you'll never be sure which shell
hides the pea.
