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 Now the written canon, for all its flaws and biases, is the nearest account of how humans do communicate. But it is biased in obvious ways: it favours those who write over those who do not; the loudmouth over the introvert, those who have the time, resources and inclination to publish over those who don’t; those who have a platform over those who don’t.
-The same thing that is uncomfortable about that is democratic about that. It is democracy’s prerogative to deliver a result any voter, personally, might not like. That a small group of well-attuned, influential people — such a group you might call an “elite” — can make value judgments to correct for the unmediated, actual speech of the population – to second guess what the population did say with what, in that elite’s opinion, it ought to have said, is a political act. It is to rewrite the record. To erase the past.
-Now statistical correlations between words either do say something profound about the values embedded in a text, or they don’t. But either way one should tread carefully before remediating or correcting text for “unwanted” biases. Unwanted by whom?