After democracy Afrikaans lost power and became symbolically tied to the apartheid past

Evidence

Afrikaans has always been a keystone of Afrikaner nationalism and Afrikaner identity13 and is traditionally seen as the ‘repository of Afrikaner heritage, Afrikaner creativity, Afrikaner soul, Afrikaner power …’. However, with the advent of democracy, South African language policy was revised and Afrikaans became just one of eleven official languages in South Africa. At the time of writing, the fall from grace of Afrikaans as a language of power is ironically demonstrated by the fact that the National Language Policy Framework is available online only in English. Just as after the Second World War the German language was shamefully associated with the holocaust and wartime aggression, Afrikaans is currently symbolically associated with South Africa’s apartheid past. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 22

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the mechanism by which a language of power becomes a language of stigma — comparing Afrikaans’s post-apartheid symbolic fall to German post-WWII — directly relevant to the reader’s question of whether grievance narratives persist decoupled from power.
• ADDENDUM: Pairs with ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ as another instance of language/power signaling reversal, though the article is on dress — more precisely connects to the reader’s core question about identity decoupling from power.
• XREF: connects to: Afrikaner national identity dissolved into existential confusion once political power was lost. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 27; Post-apartheid Afrikaner identity requires strict separation of public and private racial speech — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 194; Present-day Afrikaners discard identity markers that tie them to the accountable past — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 186

Broader Connections

• Afrikaner national identity dissolved into existential confusion once political power was lost. #expands (0.85) — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 27
• Present-day Afrikaners discard identity markers that tie them to the accountable past #corroborates (0.80) — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 186
• Post-apartheid Afrikaner identity requires strict separation of public and private racial speech #expands (0.75) — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 194