Defending any language requires defending all linguistic multiplicity.

Evidence

We are not going to save one language or another here or there, while letting others perish. The floodtide of extinction, unstoppable in its power of contagion, ,vill win out. It will leave a residue that is not one victorious language, or several, but one or more desolate codes that will take a long time to reconstitute the organic and unpredictable liveliness of a language. Linguistic multiplicity protects ways of speaking, from the most extensive to the most fragile. It is in the name of this total multiplicity and in function of it, rather than of any selective pseudo-solidarities, that each language must be defended. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 503

Categorization

• XREF: Glissant’s total-multiplicity defense of languages, opposing selective pseudo-solidarities, resonates against the reader’s strategic essentialism question — where selective identity mobilizations risk the same pseudo-solidarity trap. — connects to: Anti-racism requires defending all discriminated groups, not only one’s own — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 59; Resisting one form of racism demands resisting all forms of racism. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 64; The seclusion-or-universality dichotomy legitimizes linguistic domination — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 533 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Resisting one form of racism demands resisting all forms of racism. #corroborates (0.90) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 64
• Anti-racism requires defending all discriminated groups, not only one’s own #corroborates (0.82) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 59
• The seclusion-or-universality dichotomy legitimizes linguistic domination #expands (0.78) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 533