The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Issues Statement on Racial Justice

 

Wednesday, June 3, 2020 - 2:28pm

The LSA Executive Committee issued the following statement earlier this week: 

Partipants at the 2020 Session on Black Becoming for Language and Linguistics Researchers at the LSA Annual Meeting 

The Linguistic Society of America asserts its collective support for Black members of our community — students, colleagues, family, friends and neighbors — who are carrying an extraordinarily painful burden during these already distressing times. The pandemic has highlighted the structural anti-Black violence and broader racial disparities endemic to our communities. Black lives are being lost at a disproportional rate as important life outcomes for Black citizens continue to be diminished. In recent months and days, we have seen murders of people of color by vigilante civilians and the police, and we have heard explicit devaluation of Black lives and legitimization of attacks against them from the highest levels. We have also seen, with rising horror, the active suppression of ongoing peaceful protests and threats of military deployment against dissenting citizens. The LSA stands opposed to oppression and injustice in all its forms, and to the weaponization of language and culture.

https://www.linguisticsociety.org/news/2020/06/03/lsa-issues-statement-racial-justice


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