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• Xi Jinping Thought on Culture is a summary of the practice and a crystallization of theory concerning cultural preservation and development in the new era.
• "Xi Jinping Thought on Culture is a theoretical summary of the practical experience of the CPC's cultural construction leadership in the new era.
• "President Xi has set new cultural standards, aimed at enhancing cultural prosperity and ­positioning China as a global leader in culture.
• Tang Fei, chief of the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute, told the Global Times that Xi Jinping Thought on Culture naturally aligns with the nation's development in the field of culture and its international image.

• In its second month of operation, Meier Watkins Phillips Pusch LLP more than doubled its headcount to manage several high-profile defamation matters the firm landed after its August 3rd launch.
• Along with founding partners Megan L. Meier and Daniel P. Watkins, Ms. Roller helped secure a record-breaking multi-million-dollar payout for a venture capitalist who was falsely accused of fraud during a proxy fight.
• Meier Watkins also added Kayla Mozier and Alexis Chandler , two veteran paralegals with years of experience in the trenches fighting high-stakes defamation matters.
• © 2023 Meier Watkins Phillips Pusch LLP.

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• Although the reasons for suicide are complex, his family and lawyer released a statement linking his death to an anti-racism workshop he had attended.
• Those ardently opposed to “woke politics” are now using Bilkszto’s tragic death to decry anti-racism and equity work.
• The minister’s response as well as those by right-wing news media have helped to fuel a narrative that anti-racism and equity work is to blame.

Anti-racism training denigrated by news media

• The Daily Mail described the investigation into Bilkszto’s death as one that will look into “whether the obsession with woke policies may have contributed” to his death.
• The National Post wrote: “It’s no coincidence that Bilkszto came out humiliated” since “the DEI industry is designed to sell guilt and shame and perpetuate a culture of victimhood.” The Toronto Sun has suggested there is need to look at “the general issue of diversity, equity and inclusion training” concluding “reform may be sorely needed.”

Equity work disrupts ‘safe spaces’

• It begins with the acknowledgement of both historical and contemporary inequities and the premise that such work is needed to bring about equity.
• Even at its mildest, equity work involves taking some people outside of their comfort zone.
• But equity work at its most meaningful involves getting people to recognize that their comfort zone has depended on other people’s silence and marginalization.
• Yet equity work is often conducted within the context of a market-based relationship, where client priorities dictate the boundaries of change and disruptiveness.

The unspeakability of racism

• Many developed Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) policies, and several demonstrated a willingness to have difficult conversations on racism.
• Since then, the perceived urgency of this equity work has been steadily waning, yet the resistance to this work has remained forceful.
• Equity studies scholar Sheila Dawn Gill offered the term “unspeakability of racism” to describe the barriers to naming racism within Canadian spaces.