Posted on 11/10/2021 9:44:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
“White language supremacy” is the problem, and destroying grading standards is the solution, at least according to one Arizona State University English professor.
Asao B. Inoue is a professor of Rhetoric & Composition at ASU and he is urging his fellow (xello?) teachers to fight “white language supremacy” by implementing “labor-based grading” which “redistributes power in ways that allow for more diverse habits of language to circulate.”
The problem is this: “White language supremacy in writing classrooms is due to the uneven and diverse linguistic legacies that everyone inherits, and the racialized white discourses that are used as standards, which give privilege to those students who embody those habits of white language already.”
In other words, when kids are taught proper English they forget all the vernacular they learned growing up and then we’ll lose all our cherished diversity and everybody will die of injustice, The End.
Or maybe Inoue is saying people of color just can’t be expected to learn proper English.
Tell that to James Earl Jones, Mr. Inoue.
I’d also add that a professor of Rhetoric & Composition ought to avoid writing sentences like this one from his unicorn-decorated Twitter profile: “Our languaging changes as we do. Doing this kind of conventioning work might cultivate practices in students that ask them to be lifelong languagelings, ones who learn about their conventioning throughout their lives.”
Give me an F, please, teacher.
To fight the power, Inoue recommends labor-based grading, which “structurally changes everyone’s relationship to dominant standards of English that come from elite, masculine, heteronormative, ableist, white racial groups of speakers.”
That’s according to a presentation he recently gave on the subject, as seen by The College Fix.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
When I was teaching English 101 at a Texas University around 2000-2002 I had a department head who believed that we should allow students to use Ebonics vernacular English to give Black students equal grading.. No such leeway was given to Hispanic students or for that matter any students for whom English was a second language.
I just followed orders and gave them “A” since I had no frame of reference to determine if the student was using the proper syntax, spelling and grammar of the Ebonics vernacular. I suppose this was affirmative action in action.
Progressives assume all blacks are morons
The problem arises when “students” search for jobs with the same credentials - on paper only - as real workers.
Many racial discrimination lawsuits arise because fake token employees aren’t promoted or are let go - they simply can’t do the work, and in good times companies keep them on the payroll for legal purposes. When times get lean, the fake workers are gone - and they lawyer up because on paper they are the same as real workers...
Anyone lowering standards like this believes in his/her heart of hearts that certain races are inferior - there is no doubt about that.
They (liberals, that is) would never admit to this. But they would readily admit that blacks and other POC need their “assistance” or them as “allies” to exercise their “agency.”
Of course, there is blowback for this attitude: they are accused of having “benevolent white savior” complex.
Oh, the ingratitude of the downtrodden!
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