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Keyser Soze

On 2/21/17 7:43 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:34:39 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 2/21/17 3:01 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 14:04:05 -0500, Poco Deplorevole
wrote:

On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:50:41 -0500, wrote:

Liberal arts colleges perpetuating the stereotype of the illiterate
black person. No wonder that the labor participation rate in that
community is so low.

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“[The statement] is a great example of how we are striving to act
against racism,” said Dr. Jill Purdy, Tacoma’s vice chancellor of
undergraduate affairs. “Language is the bridge between ideas and
action, so how we use words has a lot of influence on what we think
and do.”

The Tacoma Writing Center’s prioritization of social justice over
grammar resembles previous concerted efforts to legitimize incorrect
speech, such as Ebonics, “inventive spelling,” and “whole language.”
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Yeah, that will get your resume' bumped up to the top of the pile.

LOL!

I guess the thinking is, if you can't educate the ghetto, dumb down
the rest of the people to make them look nominal. We certainly would
not want to criticize their illiteracy. Then we would be racists.
The only person of color who was brave enough to address this was Bill
Cosby and he turned out to be a pervert.

I taught bonehead English for an academic year to presumably bright male
college students. I was not impressed by their knowledge of and skills
in their native language. There are a couple of regular posters in this
newsgroup whose skills in English are at least as bad as my old students.

I have no idea what this phrase from your post means: "prioritization of
social justice over
grammar..."

I suggest you take that question up with the phd who said it. I assume
they are saying white guilt should make professors embrace ghetto
gibberish in a writing class.

Well, I know what social justice is...I've never heard the phraset used
in connection with "proper" use of the English language.