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University of Washington Declares Proper Grammar Is Racist
Breitbart.com ^ | February 22, 2017 | Tom Ciccotta

Posted on 02/23/2017 12:50:22 AM PST by Hadean

The Writing Center at the University of Washington is telling students that expecting Americans to use proper grammar perpetuates racism.

A press release put out by the University of Washington’s Writing Center argues that “there is no inherent ‘standard’ of English,” and that pressure to conform to proper American grammar standards perpetuate systems of racism.

“Linguistic and writing research has shown clearly for many decades that there is no inherent ‘standard’ of English,” claims the writing center’s statement. “Language is constantly changing. These two facts make it very difficult to justify placing people in hierarchies or restricting opportunities and privileges because of the way people communicate in particular versions of English.”

The university’s Writing Center Director, Dr. Asoa Inoue, suggests that racism has produced certain unfair standards in education.

“It is a founding assumption that, if believed, one must act differently than we, the institution and its agents, have up to this point,” Inoue claimed. While overt racism is usually easily identified, more elusive are microaggressions, forms of degradation which manifest on a subconscious and casual level. As the statement reads “Racism is pervasive. It is in the systems, structures, rules, languages, expectations, and guidelines that make up our classes, school, and society.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academia; education; liberal; racism; university
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1 posted on 02/23/2017 12:50:22 AM PST by Hadean
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To: Hadean

Warning: Don’t hire an English Major from the University of Washington!


2 posted on 02/23/2017 12:55:55 AM PST by Cowboy Bob
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To: Hadean

All the “researchers” need to study is whether African-Americans change to “proper” grammar when talking to non-African-Americans. If that was true, what likely conclusions would “researchers” draw?


3 posted on 02/23/2017 1:02:09 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Hadean
“It is a founding assumption that, if believed, one must act differently than we, the institution and its agents, have up to this point,” Inoue claimed. While overt racism is usually easily identified, more elusive are microaggressions, forms of degradation which manifest on a subconscious and casual level. As the statement reads “Racism is pervasive. It is in the systems, structures, rules, languages, expectations, and guidelines that make up our classes, school, and society.”

What he said.

4 posted on 02/23/2017 1:07:09 AM PST by dr_lew (I)
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To: Hadean

This is idiocracy, but with a mean component behind it all.


5 posted on 02/23/2017 1:20:49 AM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Hadean

Trump’s next EO should order the bulldozers to converge on UW.


6 posted on 02/23/2017 1:26:57 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Hadean

Plain stupid.


7 posted on 02/23/2017 1:29:22 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Hadean

Here he is in all his professorial excellence.

http://directory.tacoma.uw.edu/employee/asao


8 posted on 02/23/2017 1:32:09 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Cowboy Bob

When this gets around, all the alphabet networks will be hiring people you can’t understand — to show that they’re not racist.


9 posted on 02/23/2017 1:40:34 AM PST by AZLiberty (A is now A once again.)
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To: Hadean
OK, so when my economics students mislabel Supply and Demand curves and I correct them, it's racist. I can see where this is going...

Minimum standards and conventions developed to facilitatie communication and professional, scientific and financial teamwork (in other words, civilization) are not necessary.

Education today is a luney bin and I'm thisclose to quitting my teaching job...

10 posted on 02/23/2017 1:46:23 AM PST by 4Liberty (DEMOCRATS- Exporting Jobs, Importing Votes.)
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To: spirited irish

ping


11 posted on 02/23/2017 1:48:52 AM PST by spirited irish
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To: Hadean

It’s racist to declare that reading books and studying and getting good grades is “actin’ white”.


12 posted on 02/23/2017 1:49:43 AM PST by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: 4Liberty

You better be careful. Some gal with a flat chest and no hips will go into a fit if you use the word “curves”.

“Yo teach! I know what that is. I points the gun at the guy and demands all is money - and he supplies it!”


13 posted on 02/23/2017 1:52:40 AM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: 4Liberty

Everybody knows those are the “Gots” and “Gits” curves :0)


14 posted on 02/23/2017 1:54:09 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Hadean

This will certainly increase employment opportunities for blacks.


15 posted on 02/23/2017 2:02:46 AM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: Hadean

The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Plain.

The Wash in Washington Hangs Washingly on Ebonics


16 posted on 02/23/2017 2:06:17 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: 4Liberty

Scotty, beam me back to 1900 or so, when eighth-graders were better educated than today’s college graduates. They turned out citizens; equipped to arrive at an informed conclusion, but not directed toward one in particular.

The education of future generations needs to be ripped out of the hands of those who demonstrably want a society of controllable robots.


17 posted on 02/23/2017 2:07:07 AM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Hadean

By labeling any attempt to require any standards as racist they are actually keeping minorities in chains. It makes it impossible to rise above a certain level. I think that is the plan of the leftest. Use minorities as shock troops but to keep them from actually improving their lives.


18 posted on 02/23/2017 2:07:51 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Paging E.B. White!


19 posted on 02/23/2017 2:11:01 AM PST by freepertoo
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To: Hadean

And, so are race car drivers!


20 posted on 02/23/2017 2:14:44 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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