It is truly wild how fast the world – and specifically how we speak about it – changes.
Dr. Martin, whom I love following on TikTok, made this video, where she talks about how ‘words mean things’ and how food desert doesn’t accurately describe what that phenomenon is.
I totally respect that, and will try to fold the newer correct terms into my vocabulary.
It’s just so interesting to think that when we did the piece on ‘Food Deserts‘ for The Nightly Show, it was regarded, at the time, as progressive, bringing light to a thing people didn’t know much about. Seven years later, it’s becoming an outdated term.
Seven years in some ways is a very long time. But I also find it sometimes hard to keep up. There’s so much history I already don’t know, and the context around it and how we view it, and how we view current situations, is always changing. Which is probably good!
It’s good to grow. To recontextualize. It’s just hard to keep up sometimes when I don’t always know the original context. There’s SO much to learn.
I guess none of us will ever know everything. We can just try our best to do our best in the places we can.
Anyway, follow Dr. Martin for more interesting things to learn!