Did you know that grammar is now racist?

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.

I've never thought about how people living in Seattle refer to themselves until just now.