93 Replies to “The Children Is Our Future”

  1. Another hallowed institution of “higher learning” who’s graduates will be placed in the covert “do not hire” registry.

    1. ‘whose’ (who’s is a contraction for ‘who is’)

      Sorry. Normally I restrain myself, but considering the topic… 😉

      1. Mea culpa! I am a retired engineer, not an English graduate, but that is no excuse. I still hold proper spelling, grammar and rich vocabulary in high esteem. As a feeble excuse for my transgression, I am the one who gets tee times three times a week for golf and sends email to the guys asking (aksing?) “who’s playing”.

        1. One comment about that I heard while I was an engineering graduate was: “When I was in university, I couldn’t spell injuneer. Now I are one.”

    2. Robert, I hope so. When academic departments start down the anti-intellectual path, like this, it is time to discredit these departments and universities.

  2. Well, it is the State University of New Jersey. That explains a lot right there.

  3. I started to learn English from scratch (starting with the alphabet) in the fourth grade. By Form One (the seventh grade) I was expected to be proficient in it as a second language. Some of the teachers came from England and did not know any Chinese. I had to write a full page essay, on point and grammatically, every week. And at that time I hardly ever spoke English outside the classroom.
    After immigrating to the U.S. at thirteen, I wrote ballads and sonnets, on my own, starting when I was sixteen. It was lucky that no one told me English grammar was beyond me. Quite the opposite. English was a close second as the choice for my major.

    Really, the contentions that grammar is racist and math is racist are in themselves the racism of low expectations. It is a good way to insure that young blacks will never learn them by not being challenged.

    1. I was going to ask … “ain’t multiculturalism wonderful?” … but then you reminded me that “multiculturalism” isn’t the core issue. The core issue is RESPECT for THIS culture. I am certain you’ve kept your Chinese culture … but have fully adopted ours.

      If I were to move to China … I would learn the language (whichever dialect was held in highest esteem) and respect THEIR culture. I wouldn’t demand it conform to my own slovenly character.

      2. Part of it is I guess I am just lucky. For some reason I just took to English. It is relatively easy in grammar compared to the other European languages, having no gender in the nouns. On the other hand it is a language with many roots, with different pronunciations for the same combination of letters. (How many ways can you pronounce “ough”)? “Char” can be pronounced as in charcoal from the Anglo-Saxon, or as in character from Greek, or as in charlatan from French. Coming from a language with no spelling it didn’t really bother me.

        What bothered a lot of my classmates is the fact a verb changes meaning depending on the preposition used with it. (Put up, put down, put through, put in, put out.) I saw my classmates with a pamphlet full of definitions of such combinations, and trying to remember them all by rote, which of course is well nigh impossible. I never bothered, but somehow it never bothered me either.

        What made a difference was that I read a lot of novels. I have my brother to thank for that, he introduced me to books about a British boy’s heroes, such as Sherlock Holmes, Ivanhoe, Horatio Hornblower and Allan Quartermain, as well as Kipling and Dumas (in translation of course.) In the beginning I ran across a lot of words I didn’t know. But instead of stopping every time to consult a dictionary, which would destroy the flow of the story, I just made a mental note and went on. I only made an exception when the meaning was crucial to the story. In that way I ran across the word multiple times, and could begin to guess what it probably should signify. I gradually acquired a good vocabulary, as well as insensibly learned good grammar. I would recommend that approach to anyone of any age who wishes to learn good English.
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        Insofar as literature, I have to confess I don’t know that I have adopted YOUR culture so much as the British culture. I thought about that the other day, and really can’t name but one American author I have read more than two books of, that being Mark Twain. But there are innumerable British authors I have read more than four books of, and even one Russian.

    2. Isn’t that the whole idea, though? Does the left want blacks to succeed? No.

  4. Well, everything is erase-ist.
    Tabula rascist.
    Oh, sorry to deploy dead white patriarchal puns.
    I think I will now read Paradise Lost again.

  5. I hope the Elite, Learned University Experts do try to standardize their new grammar using an existing pidgin language like Hawaiian or Nigerian. There are actually existing machine translation services and other resources for those dialects.

    https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

    I suppose they will create an entirely new dialect with new grammar rules? Maybe we could call it Ebonics?

  6. If your plan was to make people unemployable, frustrated and poor would you do things any differently?

  9. A friend of mine who used to live in Dallas told me that none of the people he knows would ever have a black doctor. I thought it was the most vile, racist thing I’d ever heard until he explained that the standards for black doctors to graduate were lower.
    Naturally, the woke response to this type of thing is to childishly vilify the whole notion of excellence and standards as tools of white oppression.

    1. Yes, Hairball, SAT scores are very good at predicting academic success and good life success outcomes. It is just a fact. Sorry, folks who do not like testing. We experts in the field have to tell others that it actually works rather well. Black, indigenous, Asian, women, and alphabet people do fine as individuals.

      Oh, and I thought woke people, e.g. Trudeau liked science. Apparently not, when it conflicts with the narrative of equal outcomes, which will never happen.

  11. Brilliant! That will work well. I would not be surprised to see the Toronto “woked” school board and some Ontario Universities to get on board soon, and certainly the cool cities in the States of Washington and California. Others will follow.

    Apparently, my grade 1 to 8 Alberta curriculum in grammar is no longer appreciated. What Rutgers will create, as the former commentator said, is a generation of illiterate people with degrees that mean nothing to employers.

    My children have accused me of being a “grammar queen” when they were teenagers using “street talk”, an accusation of which I am incredibly proud, as both of them speak and write very well as adults, one of them in 4 languages.

    Politeness, lawful behaviour and being on time for appointments is also newly condemned. My friends and contacts in a racially diverse city actually like Canada for its peace, order and formerly, good government, but that was years ago before Lester B. Pearson, the first global sell-out PM.

    Is this all now “going to he** in a hand basket?

  12. L- Bad grammar:

    1. The attempt to camouflage a specious argument or in it’s most extreme, that the idea being expressed is pure gibberish.

    2. The replacement of good grammar with bad grammar lowers standards. It poorly hides the admission of students and the hiring of faculty with insufficient intelligence. The purpose has been empire building by increasing student numbers, more accurately called defrauding the taxpaying public.

    3. The low I.Q. students/faculty require courses in “studies” bereft of academic merit. Cult. Marxism is a newer version of courses formerly referred to as “basket weaving”.

    4. Cost/benefit analysis, value for money auditing is the cure.
    “Facts don’t care about your feelings !” – Ben Shapiro

        1. Oh, of course, “grammar king”.

          The former statement was not a complete sentence, thus wrong as well …

  13. Call it Ebonics, Ghetto English, or whateva yall wan! It is just another Patois or Pidgin English — that is what the Geniuses at Rutgers are proposing to do. They want to create and standardize a New Pidgin Dialect using English and the local Black Urban Ghetto (call it “Creole” or “Patois” to sound elegant) Dialect. I wonder if this new East Coast Urban Dialect will be compatible with a New Orleans Urban Ghetto Dialect, or a West Coast Urban Ghetto Dialect?

    This will be just another way to divide and marginalize the Black minority from the Multiracial majority. Not only will they look different, now they will sound different too. Divide and Alienate. Build walls between people. Next I would expect an over educated egghead in LA California or Austin Texas to demand a new Hispanic-English Pidgin Dialect too. Divide and Conquer. How Evil.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patois

    1. As a matter of fact, I had always been told what they spoke in East L.A. was Spanglish. They couldn’t speak English well enough by itself for the Anglo world, but also couldn’t speak Spanish well enough to get by in Mexico City. I don’t know if that is true any more. Hopefully not.

      1. Yes, still true, I think. My US/Can daughter speaks very fluent English, passable North American and European Spanish, as well as California Spanglish, as she lives in a colourful and diverse L.A. suburb near North Hollywood.

  14. A university with window air conditioners and people who can’t spell??

    I just hope they don’t teach heart surgery.

    To quote my old high school teacher who had a meltdown when we got 50% on a physics or chemistry exam.
    He’d say, ” Tomorrow, if you have a heart attack, do you want a surgeon who had 50% on high school exams, or someone who was up in the 90s!” He was actually trained as a surveyor by profession, however due to a botched up knee operation, he couldn’t work out in the field. So he switched to teaching. Best teacher we ever had.

    How the phoque can you make spelling mistakes when you have grammarly that corriges it in both languages??

    1. PS: Perhaps the reason they can’t spell is because the 1970’s Westinghouse window units are just too noisy.

      ”Hey, professor, can you speak louder!!”

    1. If I were a descendant of Walt Whitman, I would today demand his statue be removed from an institution which has no respect for the English language.

  16. Wot! Ya meen I doan hafta speek propa eenglish, lyk wot Ualz duz?

    I continually need to thank my long deceased Mom for pounding in to me correct pronunciation and grammar. I grew up in the UK, and one of multiple poor speech habits is to pronounce “Thanks” as “Fanks” simply because it was easier than placing your tongue between your lips to begin the word. Almost everyone of my school friends used to rib me because I pronounced “Thanks” correctly. I had no idea it would become “racist” to use English correctly. I guess it’s all part of the decline, and descent into oblivion, of our western civilization!

    Thanks Mom!

    1. Exactly! And I hope am sure that she also taught you math, via food and money. How to divide, how to add and subtract, how to do proportions, how to estimate and how to not believe everything you see in the media.

      Oh, I forgot, math is now cultural too.

      grammar queen mom

      1. Yes L, she did, although math was never a real strong suit. When my kids were growing up, and complained how hard school was, I replied that life beyond school was a lot harder, but if they kept at it, and succeeded in school, life beyond school would be a little easier. I also taught them that learning and education was simply like a bucket of water. You learn by dipping a teaspoon or a cup into the bucket, to drink the education. The act of absorbing that education could be faster with a cup, or slower with a spoon, but as long as you applied yourself, and stuck with it, eventually the educational water would all be absorbed. It worked, my son is now 40, and a very successful niche food photographer, running his own studio over in London England, and my daughter has a degree, and is doing well in the insurance business. I also have a stepson I helped raise, who is doing well in the industrial and medical gases business.

    2. Gerry That is my experience too. My mother sent me to elocution lessons when I was about 10 or 11 otherwise I would be using “fanks”. We was, sorry were, living on a council estate in London. How now brown cow.

    3. Congrats GK; but when everyone one around you syas Fanks, it`s really difficult to not say it that way.

  18. They should ask Clarence Thomas, who spoke Gullah as a child.
    No, they would never ask HIM.
    “What fools these mortals be!”

  19. I’m not at all surprised at any of this.

    While I was teaching at Armpit College, I frequently encountered that sort of thing. I was frequently criticized by students and reprimanded by administrators for insisting that the people I taught should express themselves properly.

    Nobody seemed to comprehend that a failure to express oneself clearly and properly could lead to errors in designs and mistakes on work orders. Nope. I was only showing my university “elitism” by insisting on that.

    My sole purpose was to “pass” the kiddies so that they can get a “good” job. After all, I was told, they will be taught by their employers what they needed to know. Then again, government funding depended upon graduation rates and “customer satisfaction”.

    As a result, I often wondered why I was there in the first place.

    1. I like to say: if you cannot express the thought, how do we know you are having it.

  20. “The curriculum puts an emphasis on the variability of the English language instead of accuracy.”

    Graduate studies in English are not basic grammar instruction. It is a study of English as it appears in the literature across its entire history. As such it has always, of necessity, put an emphasis on the variability of the English language. Beowulf is not written in standard English. Neither is Huckleberry Finn.

    In other words, what they are saying is not what they mean. Go figure.

  21. On a brighter note for those of us sick of this academic bull$#!t …..

    Northwestern University in Evanston, IL (Chicago’s oldest suburb) has an endowment of $7 BILLION, and just last week sent out it’s second ‘downsizing’ notice of the past 2 months to faculty and staff.

    If a post secondary institution in a market with a metro ‘Chicagoland’ population over 9 million and a SEVEN BILLION DOLLAR endowment is laying off people, what do you think the future holds for universities/colleges with much smaller endowments numbering only millions not billions?! …and Trump isn’t letting colleges/universities import Chinese students.

    We are mere weeks away from the start of an epic career bloodbath among academics.

  22. I watched “The Gentlemen” on Netflix last Thursday. It is the latest movie offering from the director, Guy Ritchie. Before marriage to Madonna, he had 2 big hits “Two Smoking Guns” and “The Snatch”, both were about the English (London) underworld. They were actually sub-titled so that regular folks could understand the argot. Then he married Madonna and it all went to hell in a handbasket. After his divorce, he was successful again with the Sherlock Holmes franchise.

    This latest one is excellent – all about power and the control of power in the London drug world. It moves gun fire fast and the language once again is “unusual”. I am planning to re-watch it this week to pick up on the finer points.

    I strongly recommend watching the movie.

    1. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, and simply Snatch.

      The Snatch is a film from another director. And genre.

      And only one small part of the former was subtitled, as the characters were speaking in Cockney rhyming slang.

      Otherwise, yes, great films all.

  24. That is sad, BA, as I can say today that my k to 12 Alberta education was very excellent. No one gave me or my friends a grade that we never earned, fair and square.

    We had a few new immigrants in our schools, polish immigrants in my experience, and they got up to speed very fast, as we helped them learn everything we knew, as kids, just playing in the parks. The first nation children were bused in to my large high school, but they were in different classes, because their lower schools were not as effective at teaching English, so Calgary had groupings of pupils then. I think a lot did well, but we did have an upgraded curriculum, as we read well. It was not really racism, but the school boards of the day were coping with reality and Canada’s insane laws/for indigenous populations.

    I am not sure that it was not a terrible idea, then or now. As a psychologist, I know a lot about individual differences. Can we just ignore all serious research? Is it really a smart idea to have recent immigrants in classes with gifted Canadian children. We have to have this conversation.

    What the heck am I am supposed to do about that?

    Most certainly, Trudeau will not get my retirement funds for my kids, if I can do it.

    1. Is it really a smart idea to have recent immigrants in classes with gifted Canadian children.

      My parents and I came over from Germany when this country recruited foreign workers to meet the job demand. My mother and father were determined that we learn how to be Canadians, while still keeping many old country traditions at home, so I grew up speaking two languages.

      At the same time, though, they expected me to meet the same standards in school as everyone else, not just in my studies but in my conduct as well. I didn’t get any special favours because I was born elsewhere, nor did I expect any.

      On top of that, if I did poorly because I was lazy or goofed off, I had the wrath of my father to deal with. I was expected to earn my rewards, regardless of what they were. If I received only Cs, it was because I deserved them.

      And, yes, I encountered bigotry and prejudice in school because of where I came from. But that made me determined to prove to myself that I was just as good as everyone else, if not better.

      If I can deal with all that while I grew up and still go on to get a good university education, other people can. I’m a blue-collar immigrant kid who earned 2 master’s degrees and a doctorate in 2 engineering disciplines.

      It’s largely a matter of personal character and determination, not some warped idea of “privilege”.

      1. What irritates me about this boo-hoo “systemic racism” malarkey and associated crapola is that people who claim to be “oppressed” often want their success handed to them without putting in any effort.

        When my parents and I came to this country, we expected to earn our place. We saw Canada as a land of opportunity. All we needed to do was to take advantage of what it had to offer and work for our rewards.

        1. When my great grandfather moved his family to Canada many of his neighbours would openly laugh at how poor his English was and the difficulties that he had in learning to communicate with them. The “stupid Bohunk” had English as his fourth language, and the neighbours spoke only one language.

          This is the same great grandfather who was captured by the Tzar’s army and sent to a prison camp in WW1, freed when the camp guards were pulled back to Moscow to help fight against the Russian Revolution, and walked/worked his way to the Black Sea, across the Mediterranean, and back to present-day Poland (where his family hadn’t heard from him for over 5 years). For some reason, he didn’t mind being called names. He knew that there were far worse things that could happen.

          I wish I could have known him.

      2. Yes, BA, you are like the immigrant friends I grew up and played with and you would have been in my slightly advanced classes because you learned to be a hard-working kid in primary school and your parents taught you good stuff, like mind your manners, do your best, share, show respect and do a good job in school. You probably had a mom at home too. I got heck from my parents too for bad marks, as they knew I could do better, and I did too, and so did you, as you did.

        German immigrants have been extremely successful in the US and Canada. Germany has been a very sophisticated country for centuries, so with their cultural and religious upbringing, and knowledge, German immigrants have contributed much to North America, probably a bit more than their weight, and we shared a lot of common values. I married a Canadian of Norwegian/Swedish and back to 1600, Germanic heritage from Northern Germany.

        The new Canadians of 1950 did the same things as we, whose ancestors showed up in the 1820s, were doing, so they learned grammar, math and read. Now, many of those folks speak for old stockers with the same voice. No one in Canada cares about the 1950s.

        My comment was about the recent third world newbies, some of whom are challenging to accommodate/integrate. Immigrants from Somalia, maybe Haiti, for example, face huge challenges in accommodating to the first world.

        The kids are having trouble, as they do not learn what we did at home and their parents need to work to live, and do not often become good at English. Some of the third-world moms and dads have grade 6 education, so how are their children prepared to enter school?

        My question is a fair one. How does the public school system educate very bright children and new immigrants from disadvantaged environments together?

        My 5 year-old grand daughter reads Green eggs and ham, partly by words and partly by memory, and she has never even been to kindergarten yet.

        Talk to any kindergarten or first grade teacher and understand what basics they have to teach in classes and compare that to the sophisticated pre-school education we had from our moms and dads, skills your own grand children know before entering the school system.

        While you may not like my comment, do you want the new generic, inclusive kindergarten curriculum reduced to be how to brush your teeth and how to sit down a chair and draw without hitting your friends, and how to be an activist for WE?

        1. My point was that being an immigrant kid was no impediment to me learning while I was in elementary school. I was held to the same standard of academic achievement as well as social conduct as everyone else. Standards weren’t lowered because I was born elsewhere and spoke with a funny accent.

          1. Exactly. You probably got a few insults and eventually dealt with “the school bully”, cheered on by the rest of we giggling girls and less brave guys. My brother was a bit challenged as per sports, so he was teased too. This older sister threw his tormentor’s hat into the mud. Take that!

      3. Well done. You achieved more than I did, as I chose less STEM subjects, but am pretty competent in statistics.

    2. Not teaching immigrants and their children the language of the majority (in this case, English and, one hopes, in its proper form) is keeping them in a serf class that can rise no higher but will vote as they are told.

      This is a political decision. Do not mistake it for a mere oversight.

      1. My parents and I figured that being proficient in English was a necessity in order to earn one’s living here in this country.

        My father, a machinist, had to not only read prints, reference books, and work orders, he often had to deal with truckers and, I think, clients. He know how important it was to speak the language properly in order to get the job done and done properly.

        I’m sure that helped establish his reputation for good workmanship in the local area, something I’ve often been reminded of while I’ve been settling his estate.

          1. Both of my parents earned reputations for their handiwork.

            My mother was a fashion designer by trade and she sewed a lot. Many of the local ladies came to her for their graduation outfits and, in some cases, wedding gowns and even the bridesmaids dresses.

            I often crossed paths with people who had dealings with my father either where he worked or through the sharpening business that he ran on the side. Some of them did me a few favours concerning the estate out of respect and admiration for him.

            I inherited that from them but, unfortunately, I was largely unsuccessful in instilling a similar attitude in my students.

      2. Exactly. Why create new serf classes? Inferior University degrees will enable serf classes.

        Canadians now hate each other for having residential schools in their history, and no one can get away with saying that maybe the schools were a bit helpful. The Reconciliation Document reads like an NDP manifesto, but Trudeau signed all in and did nothing. Seriously, go read it!

        Yes, maybe residential schools were not the perfect plan, and we know there were some abuses, but everyone keeps quiet about some successful English and French graduates who are actually very successful citizens and leaders. Schools for every kid in those days were a bit mean, according to today’s cream puff standards. I had my knuckles whacked by a ruler by a grade 2 teacher in 1958, and I was mostly a goody two-shoes student, but had a bad day, I guess. The boys got it worse, some whacked by straps. We all survived very well, and were very fine, thank you.

        Given the day, good intentions were shared by some indigenous leaders and other Canadians (now settlers), we all thought that all Canadian kids should have a good education. Making it mandatory was probably a fairly bad idea. The government of the day recognized that it was important to educate indigenous children in English, as they did for their own children. I think there was kindness behind the idea. We Scots certainly put up schools as soon as we bought a plow and found some like-minded neighbours to pay for a teacher and schoolhouse.

        Maybe, Residential schools were a sort of British upper class idea, sending kids off to boarding school at age 6 or 7. The Brits did that, but it was a bit practical too. If you live in very rural Canada, and want higher education, you would have had to eventually move or get to a larger urban centre. Is it any different today?

        1. Residential schools are must now.

          One could either leave the children with people who will kill them through abuse or neglect or one could leave them with monitored teachers who will ensure that they have some kinds of skills to be productive citizens.

      3. Yes, so why do we apologize for residential schools and silence the voices of those who actually benefited? For some, it worked well; for others, it was not. Let us be truthful. Teaching indigenous people and immigrants is crucial. We have always known this. Multi-cult does not work, as we can never survive as a nation unless we have a shared culture and language. Already, we have Al-Sask wanting to leave.

  25. As an English major with a mother who taught English lit and grammar as well as French lit and grammar. She would have thought that as an old man I did not learn much. I doubt I will make it to 99 as she did. She did not have to embrace the level of stupid that I have had to in my latter years.

  26. Spurwing Plover needs to comment. I always found him insightful; others found him inciteful.

  27. What a sad state of affairs, where Big Brother makes excuses for their and your laziness, lack of intellectual curiosity, disregard for excellence and precision in communication. It will also be racist when nobody hires these (under) graduates because they never learned to effectively communicate or demand service from themselves. Let the state do that for you and find your scapegoats.

    Tear down all the statues, remove inquiry from universities, embrace racist myths, whatever culture you value.

    No worries, you won’t need it in the new soviet socialist state, which replaces variety with their self-serving slogans.

    IOW bland nothingness, rows of soviet apartment blocks with TVs droning on the party line.

    We all thought 1984 came and went; it didn’t at all, it has lurked ever since, patient, waiting for a chance to strike.

    Then a bad cop killed a criminal black man. Then Dems realized their sclerotic policies and dinosaur leader has no resonance.

    Then they realized how easy it is to scare people into submission, with a double barrel of covid panic and idea intolerance.

    The mask is their symbolic weapon of choice, whether sported by a Antifa or BLM activist, or as ordered by megalomaniac politicians.

    (Note: wear a mask if you want to, no judging here. I do if I can’t social distance, that is not my point at all; it’s about control)

    1. Masks are not such a bad thing. Maybe they are useless. Wearing them, though, sends a message to careless folks who think they are immune to the Wuhan virus.

      It signals, “Stay the 6 meter flick away from me”, as I am a bit too old to catch this.

      1. I am old and do not wear a mask. if you think i am afraid i will use my cane to advise you otherwise.

  28. Given what I have seen on the Internet (pluralising things with an apostrophe and an S, subject-verb disagreement, outright refusal to capitalise proper nouns or even use them to start off a sentence, the multiple confusions of possessive adjectives with other words, misspellings, the rejection of punctuation) and the obstinate repudiation of grammar by teaching staff who push students through the puppy mills they call schools, I would say this insufferable demand is just the nail in the coffin of the English language and almost all of communication in North America.

    Stick to grunting, I suppose.

    1. While I was at Armpit College, I brought up issues like that. Our department secretary scoffed at my concerns, fobbing it off with “language is always evolving”.

      There were times I swear that if I had presented my lectures using nothing but grunts, sign language, armpit scratching, and copious use of rude references to the human anatomy, I would have been regarded as the most eloquent and effective instructor.

  29. Actually this is brilliant.
    The Hate Crimes Kangaroo courts will be so fu..ed.
    With the Academic buy in,that language is completely subjective,thus hate speech is impossible.
    Never mind the cautionary tale of the “Tower of Babel”,fear not the Herman Cartoon of the court witness,who swears he swerves to smell the soup and nuts sing on the roof as he repeats the Witness Oath..
    It is no longer the speakers problem to carefully express themselves and that communication is necessary..
    Consider this advantage.
    We live in a world of ever increasing fear-mongering,paranoia and institutional betrayal.
    So if you perceive a threat you must act immediately to protect yourself,especially if your region is controlled by progressives.
    For even our courts now rule “Police are not obliged to protect the citizen.
    So if you overreach in savagely protecting you and yours,well that becomes a “communication problem”.
    After all,today even when it uses the “Queens English” correctly,when I hear a Liberal Style Creature speak,I hear them loud and clear.
    They are here to steal from me , dismantle all works and confiscate all wealth I hoped to pass on..
    Thieves,Fools and Bandits to a “person”.
    So as I “hear” an open threat ,how shall I respond?
    Once these words have “Non-Wascist” meaning?

    Lacking an agreed upon language,one can only use actions.
    Actions always speak louder than pretty words.We have 60 years of Liberal/Uni-Party actions.
    Yah think we can figure out their intent,by now?

    1. If “money disappearing into a black-hole” can be deemed racist, and it was, then your use of the word “is” or “the” could be deemed racist by someone who is out to get you.

      Rather than limiting the kangaroo courts, this will enable them because how you intended to use your words will no longer matter, it’s only how the semi-literate heard you that will matter.

      Stinginess is not something I know as a trait of American blacks, but the word niggardly is now assumed by some to be a racist term because it’s a homophone. (opps, I hope that last term doesn’t get me in trouble.)

    2. Even completely bereft of language, they will still be capable of screeching like the apes they are as they tear you limb from limb and gangrape your woman.

      Apex predators like wolves and bears who have lost their fear of humans because stupid city folk insist on feeding the cute animals don’t need language as an excuse to eat you alive.

      The apes keep terrorizing us for one reason only: they have not been taught over generations to fear white men and to stay far away from them.

  30. So Rutgers University has students in their English department who got all the way through the education system and landed at Rutgers who still can’t speak English? They must be attracting the cream of the crop.

  31. Wait until the Woke crowd gets to French. All nouns are either Male or Female. La Porte or Le Chemin. No LGBTQXYZ there.

  33. Grammar policing is just a carnival sideshow…what they’re teaching in other subjects in our places of higher learning should scare the sh*t out of anyone who’s in the “Boomer” age range.
    Progressives have successfully infected every aspect of our society with like minded poodles from local municipalities to the highest court of the land. It’s a done deal…and save for a total revolution where things will be totally effed up for the many years it’s going to take to sort it all out, I’m afraid there’ll be no going back.

    I take comfort recognizing that I grew up in the best possible time. Watching my neighbour pull a plastic wagon, complete with side rails and his 2 1/2 year old belted inside, and helmet securely strapped to his head drove the point home for me. The same child who may very well one day tell me to take one for the team and hand me a pill to expedite my “voluntary transition” into the hereafter. Cause y’know…it’s for everyone’s good.

    If there are grammar errors in the above, don’t sweat it, I’ll get over it.

  35. May I suggest one of the works of George Bernard Shaw: “Pygmalion”.

    If you haven’t the time, recall the musical version, “My Fair Lady”, in which the guttersnipe Eliza learns to speak properly and is passed off as royalty.

    If you insist those productions were “just fiction”, here’s reality. A neighbor of mine is very upset that socialized medicine gave her the brush-off when she went to the clinic complaining about pains. “When I went and seen the Doctor, he didn’t do nothin’ for me.”

    Do you suppose he judged her on her speech?

  36. (response to Kakola) I ‘eard no doctors ‘as to treats nobuddy, heveryone gots to get treated the same, they does.

    My Fair Lady is an excellent example of how upward mobility is possible by proper speech and manners. Totally lost on the cancel crowd.

  37. Actually that was my point.
    Shoot first question the corpse later.
    For in telling us language is useless,we are freed of all obligation to listen to them.
    If it walks like,quacks like it and smells like it,threat it as such.
    As verbal communication is now declared “impossible” by the Progressive Slime,we dare not employ it.
    Hence Fire First. Apologize never.
    For there is no reason nor need to attempt communication with dangerous fools.
    And as these critters have deemed language racist,there can be no way to “speak to them” accept through action.
    You cannot argue your “case” in court as you cannot be heard,thus such enemies must be exterminated.
    When you abandon free speech,you must accept the TRIBE.
    For if you are not of my Tribe,you are enemy.
    Crush your enemies..

    I keep laughing at these idiots.
    Yes they hold political office,Yes they have power to tax us.
    Yes they are fools beyond belief..
    But they know nothing of human nature.
    As Kipling so aptly tells.

    These “new Rules” they impose..Will destroy them.
    Pound Me Too,worked so well.
    Throwing away rule of law for rule of righteous mob,is also a “real winner”.
    Defund the police and Burn Loot Murder your Democratic Enclaves..Damn that is working so well.
    And as these areas have their own minions of State,who have replaced Police,these minions willingly stand-down as directed.
    The resulting street theatre has been great,best free campaign promotion the Trump Reelection committee could never buy.

    Best “Reality TV”ever,I sit at home drink beer and enjoy the Demon Rat Domains Burning.
    Impossible to script,completely implausible ideologies,righteous stupidity be deep you could never fake it,mass hysteria and self immolation.
    Shame we have no real reporters to interview more of these zombies for our entertainment and the further enlightenment of our own misguided children.

    And when the show gets old?
    I go make sure my own tools are ready to rock and roll?
    But now I really want to buy one of them there “Assault Rifles”as described on TV,now I have only heard of these from Presstitutes,Politicians and Police Chiefs,I have never seen one advertised in any catalogue,the Cody Gun Museum does not have one.
    No Military admits to issuing any..
    But I want one,a rifle I can instruct ,a self loading,self firing creation,for the old bones are getting creaky,those cold fall mornings are getting tougher..
    Why with one of these “wonder weapons” I can stay in the camper,have a lazy breakfast and then go collect my moose..
    For such is the “Assault Weapon” as described by our clueless media.
    I have tried every thing,but my current toys just collect dust or rust..
    Damn my rifles are so lazy,I have to clean them carry them,load them,aim them,finger the trigger myself and hold them on target until they have punched my shoulder in response…

    You cannot cure stupid.
    But as long as you enjoy life and leave yourself an escape path,stupid can be hugely entertaining.I find the Canadian version much more enjoyable,as I remind myself,They voted for this.

  39. This is more in line with math is hard than grammar is racist, but they are both because of terrible elementary and high school education.
    I taught at a party time Cal State college that was very proud it could call itself a University because of a couple of graduate programs. I had to teach a remedial geometry class. Well, I managed to turn that Mickey Mouse class into something useful. But before I could do that, I realized that many of the kids could not do a simple fraction addition, viz: a/b + c/d = ? I asked one of the kids to do it in front of me, and he mumbled to himself as he was doing it, and got the wrong answer. But he couldn’t tell me exactly what he was mumbling. So I took one hour off from geometry to teach them fractions, something that should have been taught in elementary school.
    These kids weren’t dumb. They all learned right away. It’s just no one ever taught them the right way. And this was forty some years ago. I can only imagine that things have only gotten worse.
    P.S. I called it elementary school. It used to be known by another name, grammar school. I guess it would be racist to call it something like that now.

    1. That sounds like some of the courses I taught at Armpit College.

      Quite often, I found that many of my students, who were recent high school graduates, couldn’t do simple algebra or trigonometry. Frequently, I was expected to give up some of my lecture time to teach what they should have known in the first place.

      Whenever I brought up the matter in staff meetings or discussions with the department administrators, I usually got something akin to a shrug or “That’s what you get paid the big bucks for.” In other words, they dumped their responsibility on my desk and I wasn’t just expected to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, I was expected to first raise the critter from a piglet.

      I quit my job nearly 20 years ago and I never regretted it.

      I’m so old that I remember when “middle school” was still junior high. That doesn’t surprise me. Educationists love putting labels on things.

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