Rutgers University Says Grammar Is Racist, Gets Called Out For Assuming Minorities Can’t Write

[Revmitchell]

Rutgers University has now jumped on the “grammar is racist” train, with the school’s English Department declaring proper grammar is part of white supremacy because students of “multilingual, non-standard ‘academic’ English backgrounds” are allegedly disadvantaged.

Rutgers University Says Grammar Is Racist, Gets Called Out For Assuming Minorities Can’t Write Correctly

 

[Revmitchell]

Just because they are considered disadvantaged doesn't make it racist.

What is racist is the expectation of inability of a oarticular race. The idea that standards have to be lowered for them says they are inferior. Can't get any more racist than that.

 

[atpollard]

It is ironic that institutional racism at Universities works against Asians ... who have to score HIGHER than their peers to get in.

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

From the article: "'That’s racism. It has become very clear to me that those who claim to be ‘anti-racist’ are often the most racist people in this country.'" Yep, to me, too.

 

[just-want-peace]

----- The idea that standards have to be lowered for them says they are inferior. Can't get any more racist than that.

Or, in plain English, "You are so lacking in drive & intelligence that you need us (liberals) to take care of you!" Hopefully many of the blacks see this "between the lines" farce for what it really is.

From the article: "'That’s racism. It has become very clear to me that those who claim to be ‘anti-racist’ are often the most racist people in this country.'" Yep, to me, too.

Without a doubt this fits the dems to a "T".

 

[church mouse guy]

Ignorance is bliss.

In 2005, Thomas Sowell published a book called "Black Rednecks and White Liberals." It refuted the idea of ebonics. It turns out that the lack of grammar is from lower class whites from Scotland, Ireland, and England who were in the south and taught the slaves their bad English. In other words, ebonics is just the language of slave owners and slave drivers.

 

[Adonia]

This is all getting pretty ridiculous, especially coming from institutions of higher learning. Is it racist to tell all people to say words properly? In the case of the word "ask" it is said just like it is spelled, ask, it is not pronounced "axe" as black people seem to like to say it.

 

[church mouse guy]

This is all getting pretty ridiculous, especially coming from institutions of higher learning. Is it racist to tell all people to say words properly? In the case of the word "ask" it is said just like it is spelled, ask, it is not pronounced "axe" as black people seem to like to say it.

They got that pronunciation from the plantation owners. It's redneck talk. Read Sowell's book if you get a chance--it is easy to read. Think about it--it was the lower classes who got kicked out of the UK and came here and it is their speech that is so popular with the eggheads now.

Australia got ex-cons. So, yeah, Australians have a lot of convictions, don't think they don't, ha!ha!

Our professors are so ignorant sometimes. They don't really know--they just profess to know.

One professor wrote on his student's paper that something like FedEx would never work. The student started FedEx anyway.

 

[Adonia]

They got that pronunciation from the plantation owners. It's redneck talk.

I never heard that when I was growing up and my town was half black. The black kids at school didn't say it like that, they talked normal American english. The first I started hearing talk like that was in my early 20's when I was working with some black people from Newark, NJ. I assumed it was some inner city jive.

 

[church mouse guy]

I never heard that when I was growing up and my town was half black. The black kids at school didn't say it like that, they talked normal American english. The first I started hearing talk like that was in my early 20's when I was working with some black people from Newark, NJ. I assumed it was some inner city jive.

I think that it got worse. Look at Sowell: he grew up in Harlem but wanted to assimilate. He went to the marines and then to Harvard and the University of Chicago. He doesn't talk redneck. Blacks should assimilate.

Chuck Norris was exposed to the covid virus. Now the covid virus is in a two week quarantine.

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

...Chuck Norris was exposed to the covid virus. Now the covid virus is in a two week quarantine.

 

[Ziggy]

In the case of the word "ask" it is said just like it is spelled, ask, it is not pronounced "axe" as black people seem to like to say it.

If you go back to Wycliffe and Tyndale, forms of "ask" are regularly spelled "ax", "axed", and "axing". Just saying...

 

[church mouse guy]

If you go back to Wycliffe and Tyndale, forms of "ask" are regularly spelled "ax", "axed", and "axing". Just saying...

Spelling wasn't standard in those days. It is doubtful that Wycliffe and Tyndale would have been what we now call rednecks.