Posted on 09/02/2020 7:22:26 AM PDT by C19fan
Several professors are teaming up to demand that colleges do away with the concept of “standard English” as Americans know it today, in favor of accommodating “Black Language.”
The Conference on College Composition and Communication released a statement demanding reform of the linguistics used in higher education. The CCCC is an organization claiming to promote diversity among college campuses, by way of establishing “broad and evolving definitions of literacy, communication, rhetoric, and writing.”
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...
Can the students who are babied like this sue when they cannot land a decent job because they write in Ebonics?
The first step should be to close the English departments and fire their faculty and staff.
Fo shizzle!
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You be...
We be...
I thought cultural appropriation was bad?
Dat ri, mo fo. So gives me a A
Everything I see BLM/The Left/Black Power-types promote ultimately seems have the purpose of lowering, degrading and demeaning black people.
Thought and language are inextricably linked. Proper grammar, syntax, and vocabulary are the expression of a logical and ordered mind. We train our minds with focused language, just as we train our bodies with specific exercise.
So can I write a paper in Jive?
FFS, no one will understand a word you say then. Maybe that’s a good thing.
in order to earn respect, one must first respect oneself, and not speaking articulately shows a lack of respect for oneself and others who must listen to such dribble.
series.
As usual, this is a very simple “problem” with a very simple solution. It’s only the policy wonks, politicians and educators that make you believe it’s difficult.
Use one of the Left’s favorite tactic against them.....Affirmative Action.
If a school gets any kind of public money, said school has to ensure that 50% of its educators and administrators have a demonstrated adherence to CONSERVATIVE AMERICAN VALUES and do not adhere to Common Core or any of the revisionist history spewed by Howard Zinn.
One of the biggest problems this country if having with education is the fact that “normal, sane” people aren’t more involved. Whether that’s because they’re working, supporting their families or apathy, the BusyBody Leftists have established a foothold that can easily be gotten rid of if concerned parents stepped up and took control.
This is just the latest version of “You be actin’ white if you talk like dat!” .................
I has some questions to ax.
This won’t go over well in the scientific community where precision is favored. Imagine a doctoral dissertation that has to be translated from gobbledygook and then into ebonics.
I speak jive!
We are doomed...this is for real. (HT Berlin Freeper)
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Tower of Babel time. With all the urban slang, sjwspeak, emojis, we really need another language or dialect...it’s a ball of confusion
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