"Mammas, don't let your babies grow up to be Huskies! "
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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"Mammas, don't let your babies grow up to be Huskies! "
If English is racist, so are my tennis shoes.
I am not against pronouns in general, of course. However, when the antecedents are either not identifiable or are vaporous, ill-defined concepts, the pronoun simply makes the whole caboodle even more diaphanous.
(I know, I’m getting goofy ;-).
Memo
To: HR
re: University of Washington students
Effective immediately, do not offer employment full time or as an intern to a graduate or student from the University of Washington
“Watch out where the huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow. “
It is shocking to learn that this clown is the head of their writing center. He should be fired immediately! He has denounced his own profession and asserted that he will not uphold its standards.
Who teaches the teachers?
I have a feeling you would hate scientific writing.
Many scientists avoid using pronouns and write in the passive voice. Plus, they (we) tend to write very convoluted sentences:
“Four units of EcoR1 were added to a cocktail containing buffer and 500 nanograms of DNA and allowed to incubate for one hour at 37 degrees Celsius. The DNA was then separated on a 1% agarose gel at 90V for one hour, following which the 700 base-pair band was excised and the DNA extracted.”
I once read a scientific paper in which the author used the pronoun “I” (usually scientists say “we” if they use a pronoun at all) and wrote in the active voice. I was shocked—scientists just don’t do that!
An attempt to return to eubonics — American black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English. The goal then was to require teachers to take courses in eubonics so they could teach it to white students. Any objection was, of course, racist.
by limiting such writing to scientists, you overlook the vast reporting of ordinary business. I write reports in passive voice all the time because such writing is the acceptable manner.
“While overt racism is usually easily identified, more elusive are microaggressions, forms of degradation which manifest on a subconscious and casual level.”
WTH? Yeah, they’re “elusive” because they aren’t factual! Subconsciously we are racist for teaching the English language, and the proper grammar thereof, at a learning institution? They really have gone off the deep end.
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
Math, engineering, chemistry, and medicine are also racist because Africa do very poorly in these majors.
Both of my grammars died years ago.
I’m not used to reading business writing, but it does not surprise me that other professions would use such a style.
It seems that when the purpose of writing is to convey information and not draw attention to the person conveying the information, people tend to slip into the passive voice. Like I did, just now.
Somebody inform this moron that without proper grammar, we would never be able to understand emails from Nigerian princes wanting money. Who’s the racist now?
No, the 4 they kept are the native Papiamento, Dutch, English and Spanish. 7 years ago I thought a higher % were fluent in English. Now, you get looks and shrugs. I thought the ‘tude at the airport and customs was colder, too. The missus and I agreed, at our age; that’s it. For our final days it will be Clearwater Beach, FL. Absolutely gorgeous.
“When words loose there meaning people loose their liberty” - Confucius
Every single day, the insanity of liberalism raises it’s ugly head.
How much longer does America tolerate this crap?
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