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.
Smitherenzes >
Virtue Signalling – We need an SDA “VS hero” award for the those that can best shame other commenters by calling them “RACIST”.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennings/2016/12/06/ethnic-chinese-on-the-firing-line-again-in-indonesia-as-protests/#5c54445f7ab1
I wonder how the headline would read if the time constraint consisted of a train loaded with extremely corrosive liquid was going to come crashing thru at 9 in the a.m. and youse all best be outta heah befoe dat.
This is in reply to your reply to comment from Smitherenzes.
Yes, the Silicon Valley does hire a lot of people of Asian (including East Asian) ethnicity. That is because a lot of them go into computer sciences and engineering. Ironically, one of the reasons they do that is because those subjects provide them with a more than equal footing, basically using specialized technical languages instead of requiring a university level command of English. Everyone has to learn technical languages from scratch (computer languages, physics and math equations, chemistry formulas, etc.) But of the Chinese males I know middle aged and above are in engineering, and the best I can say of their English is it’s serviceable. “Serviceable” is good enough to do engineering, but not good enough for upper management.
As to racial makeup of engineering and computer science jobs, one should look at employment as a percentage of available supply rather than of the general population. Go to any STEM class in any first rate university, and see what the racial composition looks like. A company is not being racist if their technical staff resembles that racial composition.
Yes, let’s look at some more gems:
An undergraduate researcher
Hold on to your hats. Science is happening.
As a white-passing person
So some form of 1/16thoroon, apparently.
urging students to speak using the language which makes the students most comfortable.
One distinctive characteristic of dialects or patois is that they lack sophisticated or technical vocabulary. I shudder to think what a 3rd year thermodynamics course taught in Ebonics would sound like.
The Posse scholar program “identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential who may be overlooked by traditional college selection processes.”
Such as decent grades. Or the ability to present an idea like an academic and not, say, an 8th grade science fair.
The social welfare major’s acclaimed research involved talking at length with three minority students about how they perceive language.
A sample size of three. Pipe down at the back, you, I said science is happening.
Agreed … however … I have NEVER witnessed a single ONE of the Asian “serviceable” speakers INSIST that their Companies adopt broken or pigeon English to help them f-e-e-l equal to the Management/Executive speakers. Now … at the other end of the spectrum … you have these people “of-color” INSIST that we accept, if not adopt their ghetto-speak in the collegiate and corporate worlds. It is clearly a RACE to the bottom for the darker of our fellow citizens. Might I suggest they run this experiment in Zimbabwe ?
Let them speak the words/language of their native country, eh? So when I read on Drudge or wherever that a school has students from 84 countries, I’m to assume this is a wonderful opportunity for diverse education? I bet the teachers don’t think that way.
https://vimeo.com/74504707