Social Justice™ ideologues — who mostly don’t have jobs and, if they do, are likely to be navel-gazing in a Women’s and Gender Studies faculty lounge and coming up with new terms to express their inexpressible victimhood — have become overly fond of a most off-putting semantical machination: the “black body.”
It’s everywhere in their literature and rhetoric.
Via the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (emphasis added):
In her award winning book, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (2019), sociologist Sabrina Strings presents a meticulously researched history of the transformation of Euro-American ideologies toward fat from the Renaissance to the present day…
These works placed particular emphasis on the bodies of southern African women…
Strings makes clear how the legacies of African enslavement and genocide that solidified global white supremacy have relied on processes of racialization that inferiorize Black women’s bodies as both overly sensual and excessively shapely.
Via Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. (emphasis added):
Philosophical texts frequently provide a theoretical framework for discussing racial dichotomy without considering the importance of discursive practices and lived experiences. George Yancy describes his book Black Bodies, White Gazes as an effort “to explore the Black body within the context of whiteness”.
You get the idea. This semantical engineering obsessed with the “black body” is ubiquitous in Social Justice™ rhetoric — almost as much so as anti-white genocidal talk.
Related: WATCH: Trump Prosecutor Letitia James Leads Anti-White Hate Chant
The Social Justice™ “black body” term is not to be confused with the same used in physics.
Via Britannica:
Blackbody, in physics, a surface that absorbs all radiant energy falling on it. The term arises because incident visible light will be absorbed rather than reflected, and therefore the surface will appear black. The concept of such a perfect absorber of energy is extremely useful in the study of radiation phenomena, as in Planck’s radiation law for the spectral energy distribution of the radiation reemitted after it is absorbed.
Although, given that the Social Justice™ freaks do suck up all the light of the world and reflect only darkness, perhaps there is more overlap between the phrases than initially meets the eye.
Anyway, the “black bodies” terminology is very strange and dehumanizing, it would seem. These are not people, in the semantical construction, but rather sock puppets for the Social Justice™ machine to hold up as exemplars of the systemic injustice of the White Patriarchy™ or whatever.
This same phenomenon can be seen in other such Social Justice™ lingual inventions such as “birthing person” instead of mother — which connotates that women are merely factories for churning out babies (ironic, since they have babies and would like to snuff them out as early and often as possible in their mothers’ wombs).
My belief is that this is an intentional rhetorical device in the service of normalizing transhumanism, in which people are not holistic beings of divine providence worthy of protecting but rather clumps of cells and organs that can be swapped out and discarded at will.
