Linguistic clarity is class-specific, not universally available.

Evidence

I am often amazed to hear academics complain about the complexity of a particular discourse because of its alleged lack of clarity. It is as if they have assumed that there is a mono-discourse that is characterized by its clarity and is also equally available to all. If one begins to probe the issue of clarity, we soon realize that it is class specific, thus favoring those of that class in the meaning-making process. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 33

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A compact, paradigm-shifting claim: ‘clarity’ is not a neutral property of language but a class-marked position. Resists one-sentence summary.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does this class-specificity of ‘clarity’ intersect with the banking model’s assumption of transmitted knowledge?