I live in a multicultural city that has among its population a Portuguese Community, a Cape Verdean community, an Azorean community, a Guatemalan community, a Black community, a Latinx community and a GLBT community among others. The communities all have one major thing in common. They are made up of humans.
A community is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
But, I have noticed of late a subtle and subliminal approach to have us accept the actions of corporations and business interests by attempting to humanize that which is not human by referring to them as “communities” to have us empathize with them even when their interests go against what is best for people.Killing local municipalities from establishing rent control or requiring affordable housing be built along with high-end real estate is not being done by real estate lobbyists, but by the “real estate community. Reasonable gun control laws no longer potentially hurt the gun manufacturing industry, but the “gun manufacturing community”. Renewable energy does not harm the fossil fuel industry, but the “fossil fuel community”. The regular guy losing out to Wall Street aren’t dealing with large impersonal banks, we are just seeing things go well for the “banking community”.
Most people do not want to see people hurt, and most communities, having often struggled for their own acceptance, are reluctant to harm other communities.
And, so, playing on this, the impersonal corporate interests want us to see them as communities just as we are.
But we are people, they are not.