Did you know that grammar is now racist?

That's odd. Works for me.

"The University of Washington, Tacoma’s Writing Center now instructs students that expecting proper grammar from others perpetuates racism and “unjust language structures.”

A cadre of staffers at University of Washington, Tacoma recently crafted an instructional poster for “Huskies” on “anti-racist and social justice work.” The project was spearheaded by Dr. Asao Inoue, the center’s director.

“Racism is the normal condition of things. Racism is pervasive,” the poster reads, the Daily Caller reported Monday. “It is in the systems, structures, rules, languages, expectations, and guidelines that make up our classes, school, and society. For example, linguistic and writing research has shown clearly for many decades that there is no inherent ‘standard’ of English. Language is constantly changing. These two facts make it very difficult to justify placing people in hierarchies or restricting opportunities and privileges because of the way people communicate in particular versions of English.”

Works for me. Can try just copying and pasting.

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/21/college-writing-center-proper-grammar-perpetuates-/

@Booyeah: I completely disagree with this...

Trying hard not to rant...

@Booyeah: Wait... am I the only one that catches this?

[quote]These two facts make it very difficult to justify placing people in hierarchies or restricting opportunities and privileges because of the way people communicate in particular versions of English.”[/quote]

They said the English language changes before they said that part and then added "that makes it very difficult to justify placing people in hierarchies"

Did they just complain that it's getting harder to excuse placing people in hierarchies so that must mean they want to place people into social classes and hierarchies.... isn't that racist in itself?

It's either I am misreading it (probably misreading it maybe) or the author of that statement's true intentions are being let known through an accidental slip.

@satanburger: I read it as they don't want someone's ability to communicate effectively in English to be a factor in social or work success. In other words, they don't want the negative stigma of communicating like an idiot for people who communicate like idiots to justify dumbing people down so they'll communicate like idiots.