U.S. intelligence officials are introducing “new frameworks and language guidelines” when talking about China to avoid offending Asian and Pacific Islander personnel, according to a recent newsletter from the Director of Intelligence Community Diversity at the Directorate of National Intelligence (DNI). is said to have been created. Office of Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility.
“In recent years, the IC Employee Resource Group, which advocates for Asian and Pacific Islander peoples, has been particularly successful in creating new frameworks and language guidelines for how to talk about the People’s Republic of China.” Editor-in-Chief wrote. Head of newsletter, name redacted.
“This initiative paves the way for other groups to change their language style guides and change our work culture to speak, write, and think about foreign governments and organizations in more nuanced and evidence-based ways. ” she added.
Anti-woke Caucus Chairman Jim Banks (R-Ind.), a Navy veteran and chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee, criticized the change in language when discussing China, America’s greatest enemy. did. In a statement to Breitbart News, he said:
The Biden administration found the Justice Department’s China efforts to root out and prosecute Chinese Communist spies to be insensitive, shut it down, and now our intelligence officials are using terminology that does not “disparage” China. trained to use. Awakening is a gift to the Chinese Communist Party.
A DNI newsletter called “The Dive” is distributed internally to staff at the IC, but the quarterly winter issue is released This follows last week’s Freedom of Information request.
The issue focuses on the “importance of language” and cites language as a reason for the relatively high turnover rate of minorities working in intelligence agencies in their first few years.
“As a new analyst, I was uncomfortable with how common it is for people to speak and write about foreign countries in a derogatory manner,” she wrote.
“People often joked about foreign incompetence, implying that people of that culture or nationality were uniformly incompetent. In some analytical work, non-Western individuals and companies “It was implicitly assumed that we were not smart enough to produce quality goods and technology,” she wrote.
She took particular issue with the term “collateral damage,” calling it “harmful.”
“Perhaps most painfully, I often heard people refer to civilian casualties of war as ‘collateral damage.’ This kind of language contributes to inaccurate analysis and failures in dealings with other countries. “Not only was it personal, but it was personal for many of us who work at IC,” she wrote.
“I had the uncomfortable feeling that if my colleagues could so easily dehumanize foreigners, then perhaps they were unconsciously perceiving me as ‘less than’ as well. “There were times when I considered quitting, but then I realized that if people who think like me quit, who could inspire change?” she wrote.
The newsletter also suggested that the terms “Salafi jihadist,” “jihadist,” “Islamic extremist,” “Sunni/Shia extremist,” and “Islamic extremist” are “problematic.” did.
“These terms falsely suggest that Islamic beliefs somehow condone the actions and rhetoric espoused by foreign terrorist organizations,” he said, adding that “khawalij,” which means “outsider,” recommended the use of the term.
The newsletter states: “We are extremely grateful that our efforts are gaining attention around the world. [U.S. government] It has been well received by many people, including executives. Our committee works closely with his ODNI stakeholders on analytical comprehensiveness efforts, which are consistent with our intent to use the correct language in intelligence products and other forms of documentation. This overlaps significantly with the goal. ”
The newsletter also lists examples of “biased language” including words such as “blacklisted,” “cakewalk,” “brown bag,” “grandfather,” and “sanity test.”
“Being on a blacklist implies that black is bad and white is good,” the newsletter said.
Additionally, after pointing out that a “cake walk” was a dance performed by slaves for their slave owners on the plantation grounds, with the winner receiving a cake, “Brown Bag” He emphasized that this refers to a test conducted in the 20th century within the African American community because the color of the skin affected skin color. It was likened to the color of paper bags that deny entry to public spaces.
In further notation, the “Grandfather Clause” was a legal and constitutional provision enacted by seven states between 1895 and 1910 that denied African Americans the right to vote and prevented them from voting before 1866. Therefore, he pointed out that the “grandfather clause” was biased.
The report said “sanity checks” were biased because they implied “individuals with mental illness are inferior, wrong, or incorrect.”
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