Yo An undergraduate researcher at da University o’ Wisconsin-Madison has gained national acclaim fo’ her research showing, she says, dat members o’ minority groups feel oppressed by standard, grammatical cracker ass english.
Yo An undergraduate researcher at da University o’ Wisconsin-Madison has gained national acclaim fo’ her research showing, she says, dat members o’ minority groups feel oppressed by standard, grammatical cracker ass english.
What she is saying is that colored people can not spell words correctly like whites can.
is she saying colored people are inferior?
sounds like she is.
Gabba gabba weebeejabba mofos.
“Gallagher said her experience as a writing fellow, which involves helping other students improve their writing abilities, led her to believe that a focus on details such as proper English grammar causes minority students to feel excluded.”
proper grammar is a detail?
if we let those crazy self hating white liberals have their way,
in a few years the correct answer to adding or multiplying numbers will also be a detail
then the correct name for a lake, a city, a mountain, a famous person, the date of a historic event will also be a detail
then the correct scientific name for animals, human anatomy, diseases, medication, chemical elements , will also be a detail
where will this end?
it seems the left will not stop until there is nothing left to destroy in Western Civilization.
And let’s do away with time while we are at it. After all, whose perspective regarding time is valid?
Clemson begs profs to sign up for $27,000 diversity training
On another slide, a character named Alejandro schedules a 9:00 a.m. meeting between two groups of foreign professors and students. The first group arrived fifteen minutes early, while the second arrived ten minutes late. According to the answers, it is wrong for Alejandro to “politely ask the second group to apologize,” or explain that “in our country, 9:00 a.m. means 9:00 a.m.”
Rather, the slide says that Alejandro should “recognize cultural differences that may impact the meeting and adjust accordingly,” and understand “that his cultural perspective regarding time is neither more nor less valid than any other.”
So am I to understand that she is saying we are all equal, only if the bar is lowered for minorities? Well in a gesture of goodwill and equality, when I’m on the court, lower the damn nets, I have never dunked a ball and it gives me feelings of inadequacy despite my white privilege. LOL captcha “close village”
“…his cultural perspective regarding time is neither more nor less valid than any other.”
Sounds like a great way to train cable guys!
Once upon a time finding someone who could write or speak better than you was seen as a challenge to improve yourself through education.
Funny how the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr managed to display such a compelling and eloquent command of American English then.
I found that proper grammar makes idiots and lazy morons feel excluded. Not excluded from being a burden on society though, they’re fine with that.
I suppose this explains WHY Silicon Valley is overrun with Asian and East Indian employees. Silicon Valley must be making “concessions” for their lack of English skills. Must be making “concessions” for their lack of (the WHITE man’s) computer skills or technical knowledge. Keep diving for the bottom all you minorities … you’re getting CLOSE to the bottom … almost there.
Dat be “she say” not “she says”. Down u no nubbin.
Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.
Can I help, stewardess? I speak Jive.
This research is also endorsed by S.W.I.N.E.
STUDENTS WILDLY INDIGNANT about NEARLY EVERYTHING.
>“Just because you speak a different way doesn’t mean you’re not smart,” Gallagher told the Cardinal.
Sure, that’s why generations of Southerners have been treated as idiots because of their accent. Of course, that is ok because they’re white people.
Cut to the chase,let’s only communicate in sign language,and not that difficult American sign,but Free-form sign where your signing means whatever you claim it says.
There might be a few misunderstandings at first,hopefully fatal, but he-ven-shwa-lly (with apologies to Andrew Sachs)everyone will catch on.
Not to be condescending and all that, but generally when a sentence starts with “An undergraduate researcher …” I do not expect earth shattering revelations to follow.
Who needs an EMP when this is moon walking down the pike.
@Moosemilk: You stated “I have never dunked a ball and it gives me feelings of inadequacy despite my white privilege” So since you recognize that you have “white privilege” perhaps you can explain what this dumb broad means when she stated ““As a white-passing person, I have a lot of power and privilege that should be shared.” “. WTF is a “white passing person”, something like “gas passing”?
It’s stunning that this level of stupidity exists. However, what is even more outrageous is there are others who would embrace it.
I feel inferior and excluded by complicated “black” handshakes.
Anyways, one of my all-time favorite cartoons was simply a drawing of a movie theatre.
Showing in Theater One…. “White Men Can’t Jump”
Showing in Theater Two…. “Black Men Can’t Get a Job That Doesn’t Involve Jumping”
What the heck is a white-passing person?
Heh.
So does this mean that because I was culturally not as fluent in the best way to play basketball I get to shoot at a lower and bigger hoop?
Mandatory Ebonics Immersion courses coming soon to a Liberal College near you.
I didn’t do nuthin
One ignorant dialect I cringe over, regardless of race is; I seen him over there, and then I seen him run over there, then I seen him run away….
Can you imagine having to read their hand-written notes at work?
Ultimately she wants teachers..“to be more accepting” and to present their classes with disclaimers urging students to speak using the language which makes the students most comfortable.”
Right and if the rest of the room has no idea what the speaker is talking about, that is of no consequence?
Lowering standards is one thing, but this represents a race to the bottom.
Race to the bottom is right, and if these young people do not master proper English grammar, they can expect to suffer when it comes to getting a job. They are not being done any favours by having schools overlook poor English.
People with that attitude about language should go to doctors with the same attitude about organs.
“Oh yea, yo squibbly ‘ting gots to come out. You kno, da grey bits? I dozen ‘tink yo gonna need dat no mo no how.”
Ebonic medicine, Obamacare providers that come to you.
The educational system keeps shooting itself in the foot.
I used to teach at a certain technical college and I was often criticized for pointing out, or even correcting, grammatical errors in the work of my students. The logic was that since I was teaching a technical course, I apparently had no business checking for mistakes in their English.
If people can’t spell properly, what are the chances that they can remember the correct sequence of all the numbers and letters of a part number? If they can’t express themselves effectively, will someone who has to use the work they completed understand what they did?
Did those arguments convince anyone? Of course not.
Instead, I was told by my superiors not to worry about it as my main task was to ensure that the kiddies graduated quickly. What they didn’t know when they finished would be taught to them by their employers. (Yeah, right. What planet were those administrators from?)
I like excluding idiots and lazy morons.
Won’t it be cultural appropriation if I learn their ebonics?
It turns out that sign language is also cultural appropriation so you might be right. The author of this piece does not bother to explain how, if only deaf people teach and learn ASL, will anyone be available to interpret from spoken word to ASL for them.
http://qctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/columnists/guest/guest-view-deaf-should-teach-sign-language-at-scc/article_6f224a1a-c9ce-5969-a9ec-7cdf9e7be1f1.html
ASL is the language of the deaf community and only exists because of deaf people. It is cultural appropriation to use the language of the deaf community to make money for your institution without including deaf people in the instruction and provision of those classes. When hearing people are chosen to teach ASL, it is a form of ableism and audism. We must emphasize, hearing people teaching ASL classes when there are deaf people who are willing and able to teach contributes to the systematic oppression of deaf people.
You seem like you may be a racist.
The article is about Ebonics and lazy efforts to learn English. Not about whether Asians have computer skills.
Your comment didn’t seem to make sense. But you made it clear you sure don’t like Asians.
I hope these stupid jerks never work at NASA. Oh we don’t have to worry about a specific time window to launch our rocket, any old time will do.
It was sarcasm. The Asians are there because they are good and the American blacks are busy fighting to get to the bottom.
That’s great. Are they going to rewrite all the safety warnings, owners manuals, traffic signs, government forms etc in ebonics?
If you want to make blacks a permanent underclass, this is a great way to do it.
…. and of course we need to show that low IQ among certain population groups is further proof of the Eurocentric patriarchy…and thus to be ambraced and “worked with”… I am waiting for “The Bell Curve” to be embraced as an argument for increased affirmative action….
I swear you couldn’t make this shit up….
But they are making this shit up. It’s so much easier to make it up than to discover anything really new and worthwhile.
1978:
Normal Person: “People of colour tend to be frequently late, unserious about scientific accuracy, and overall have poor grammar capabilities”
SJW: “You racist! What rubbish! You have no basis whatsoever for saying that! Your bigotry and prejudice stands revealed.”
2017 (after decades of experience…)
SJW: “You know how people of colour tend to be frequently late, ubserious about scientific accuracy, amd overall have poor grammar skills? Well that is their culture, and we must embrace it, celebrate it, and work with it…”
Normal Person:”….wtf?”
“I didn’t do nuthin.”
Correction.
“Ah dindu nuffin.”
“An’ don’ ax muh whah. Nuya bidness.”
Gallagher….”as a white-passing person, I have a lot of power and privilege that should be shared.”
LOL
As a “white-passing person” she should hope she doesn’t end up on the receiving end of “the knock out game”.
Is she allowed to teach at a black only college?
Yeah, but how do you say Muddafugga in ASL?
“Are they going to rewrite all the safety warnings, owners manuals, traffic signs, government forms etc in Ebonics?”
If “Ebonics” were a widespread, unified language in the way that, say, American Spanish is, such an action might make sense.
But “Ebonics” is a political rather than a linguistic construct, an omnibus term for a grab-bag of varying African-American dialects that may or may not neatly intersect with one another.
It’s like taking all the dialects of England – north and south – and claiming they’re somehow a distinct, common “language” separate from English.
Wow! Did you read THAT wrong. The point I was making is that Asians and East Indians are getting the highest paid jobs BECAUSE they ARE smarter, and speak better English than … American Blacks. Silicon Valley is FAR BELOW all national averages for African-American employment. Whereas GOVERNMENT jobs employ FAR MORE than the national average of Blacks. Gee … I wonder WHY that is ? Because despite the “racial-hiring” disparity … no one dares challenge Silicon Valley’s bias and preference for competent employees … and it isn’t really spoken-about for fear of exposing the TRUTH … that (as a whole) Blacks are unsuitable for Silicon Valley jobs.
Yes … I am “racist” … if you consider COMPETENCY, EDUCATION, and INTELLIGENCE, to be “racial” characteristics. My brand of “racism” is called “MERITocracy” … I am totally colorblind to anyone and everyone with superior intellect … and most of all … CHARACTER.
Thinking of hiring a graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison? Don’t do it.
University of Wisconsin-Madison shouldn’t be accepting students who shouldn’t have graduated from High School in the first place.
Thank you … OWG. I am glad you understood my meaning. I suppose my comment was too oblique, inscrutable and vague … I shall endeavor to post more clearly.
Her basic reasoning flaw… (Ooops. Sorry. One of many reasoning flaws…..) She seems to assume that FEELING excluded is tantamount to BEING excluded. Cuz feelings equals reality, dontchaknow.
But only if you are in a special group. Their feelings = reality. All you knuckledragging posters here…..your feelings, well, just don’t matter. (To be fair, many of you have used Facts and Logic, those bastions of White Supremacy, but it is plain you did have feelings about this bold new research, too.)
Her basic reasoning flaw… (Ooops. Sorry. One of many reasoning flaws…..) She seems to assume that FEELING excluded is tantamount to BEING excluded. Cuz feelings equals reality, dontchaknow.
But only if you are in a special group. Their feelings = reality. All you knuckledragging posters here…..your feelings, well, just don’t matter. (To be fair, many of you have used Facts and Logic, those bastions of White Supremacy, but it is plain you did have feelings about this bold new research, too.)
Remember in recent past when you went to a team meeting and everyone was told that no idea is stupid idea?
This is the result.
Stupid is the rule, not the exception.