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Frontiers of 'white privilege': good grammar is now ‘racist’
americanthinker.com ^ | 4/24/2016 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 04/25/2016 4:49:46 AM PDT by rktman

Consider Mona Chalabi, an editor of the iconic leftwing British newspaper, The Guardian, who believes that having good grammar and correcting others is racist, an expression of “white privilege.”

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: grammer; microagression; speech
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To: tbw2
The movie Airplane had a scene of an old woman translating a black man’s “Jive”.

A big part of that joke was just who the "old woman" was... It was Barbra Billingsly, the mother from "Leave it to Beaver."

Mark

21 posted on 04/25/2016 5:36:37 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: IronJack

“SHEER” got it.


22 posted on 04/25/2016 5:43:50 AM PDT by Slambat
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To: ClearCase_guy

Having an IQ above 85 is racist.

________________________________________

Working is racist

Paying for your food is racist

Using non-abortive forms of birth control is racist


23 posted on 04/25/2016 5:44:35 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught
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To: MarkL

“It was Barbra Billingsly, the mother from “Leave it to Beaver.”

Imitating the typical Chicago, New York and Detroit
school
teacher. Well, most northeastern teachers anyway. But you
cant blame them. Their unions tell them to get down to
student level. They will be ignorant but at least the students
will have a healthy self esteem.


24 posted on 04/25/2016 5:48:30 AM PDT by Slambat
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Of course, this is the next step after the far too common accusation that one is “acting white” when a black student in elementary or secondary school studies hard and tried to excel in academics.

Of course what that means is that in order to be “authentically ‘black,’” one must be ignorant and uneducated. This also helps ensure that only the “leaders” have any sort of education... Keep the masses dumb and unthinking.

Mark


25 posted on 04/25/2016 5:48:36 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: rktman

Make it stop...


26 posted on 04/25/2016 5:50:37 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: HypatiaTaught

Working is racist

Paying for your food is racist

Using non-abortive forms of birth control is racist


your missed one:

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=farting+racist&view=detail&mid=FF246B660B32C83CD8B7FF246B660B32C83CD8B7&FORM=VIRE


27 posted on 04/25/2016 5:51:54 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Pollster1

Discreetly.


28 posted on 04/25/2016 6:01:38 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
Discreetly

Thank you. I do that all the time because of my discrete math background. Eventually I'll learn, with help from those who care enough to correct errors.

29 posted on 04/25/2016 6:06:31 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: rktman

Isn’t the root word of diversity divide?


30 posted on 04/25/2016 6:08:10 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Pollster1

You’re welcome.


31 posted on 04/25/2016 6:14:54 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: rktman

For the past few days the public at large was been treated to recorded interviews of Prince, who apparently had very good grammar when he wanted to.


32 posted on 04/25/2016 6:15:24 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: fella
I'm tired of not-white privilege which has been forced on us by our "leaders" for decades. Screw'em...those racist-divider degenerates.
33 posted on 04/25/2016 6:19:57 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: rktman
good grammar is now ‘racist’

Of course it's racist, if you axe me.

34 posted on 04/25/2016 6:20:43 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Robert DeLong
Looney Tune!

I would bet she wears Birkenstock sandals...probably with socks.

A chronically ignored wannabe do-gooder, who was bullied in school and now wants to make her mark on the world.

Unfortunately, the only mark she'll make is the one in her wadded-up panties.

35 posted on 04/25/2016 6:21:50 AM PDT by OldSmaj (I will be unable to find the Republican ballot box this election. They are lost. Not I.)
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To: rktman

Here’s her video on grammar-racists - it was wiped off of the youtube link in the article.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2016/apr/20/grammar-snobs-are-patronising-pretentious-and-just-plain-wrong-video


36 posted on 04/25/2016 6:34:01 AM PDT by libertarian27 (FR Cookbooks - On Profile Page)
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To: MarkL

Getting away from black or white, how about acting American, which means you speak English, whether or not it is the legal language, as it is the official unofficial language of choice by those who want to get ahead and earn the privilege of a better life. Isn’t privilege something you earn? Not something you expect because you exist? That was what I was taught, there is a difference between privileges (rewards) and expectations (wants/desires).


37 posted on 04/25/2016 6:36:16 AM PDT by This I Wonder32460
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To: rktman

So we be gotta rite lika dem dummies who vote democwat?


38 posted on 04/25/2016 6:38:02 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: rktman

Using good grammar is part of white culture. Maybe whites should start demanding that blacks who do speak correctly stop appropriating our culture. Isn’t that saying the same thing?


39 posted on 04/25/2016 6:56:42 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: sportutegrl

Of course not. You must remember that PC Blvd is a one way street and we’re goin’ the wrong way.


40 posted on 04/25/2016 7:01:27 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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