This sterile HR language is telling of an attitude that I believe is a massive problem in our culture even without wokeness. It's a form of credentialism that automatically demeans people in the outgroup in the same way that paramilitary cops start referring to other civilians as "civilians." You look down on them as the great unwashed who will have to pass several moats and walls of arbitrary procedures just to have a real conversation with you, and if they try to climb over those walls then they're guilty of "threatening behavior" and subject to civil and criminal sanctions.

Same phenomenon: Jeff Metcalf tried to talk to the Frisco ISD superintendent for a few minutes, but was told he needed to make an appointment for Monday. Yes Jeff is a stupid boomer, but no one seriously believes the superintendent is actually too busy to talk to him. In fact he is a nobleman, and Jeff is a peasant who must enter the court with the correct procedures.

Obama was the great champion of this ethos, Hillary was the uber steroided version, and Trump is its worst nightmare.

This sterile HR language is telling of an attitude that I believe is a massive problem in our culture even without wokeness. It's a form of credentialism that automatically demeans people in the outgroup in the same way that paramilitary cops start referring to other civilians as "civilians." You look down on them as the great unwashed who will have to pass several moats and walls of arbitrary procedures just to have a real conversation with you, and if they try to climb over those walls then they're guilty of "threatening behavior" and subject to civil and criminal sanctions.

Same phenomenon: Jeff Metcalf tried to talk to the Frisco ISD superintendent for a few minutes, but was told he needed to make an appointment for Monday. Yes Jeff is a stupid boomer, but no one seriously believes the superintendent is actually too busy to talk to him. In fact he is a nobleman, and Jeff is a peasant who must enter the court with the correct procedures.

Obama was the great champion of this ethos, Hillary was the uber steroided version, and Trump was its worst nightmare.