Demands for writing clarity can suffocate critical discourse

Evidence

This blind and facile call for writing clarity represents a pernicious mechanism used by academic liberals who suffocate discourses different from their own. Such a call often ignores how language is being used to make social inequality invisible. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 29

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: ‘clarity as a gatekeeping device’ — the demand for jargon-free prose as a way to avoid engaging with accounts of social inequality.
• XREF: connects to: Liberatory theory must be produced and shared orally as well as in writing