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Rutgers English Department to deemphasize traditional grammar ‘in solidarity with Black Lives Matter’
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You can't expect someone to learn proper English if they don't have white skin, that would be racist. ... You'd think it would be racist to assume that someone couldn't learn proper English because of the colour of their skin, but somehow they don't see it that way.
My experience has comically been that black folks who aren't bangers respond better to you just... talking the way you normally would. If they don't get the meaning of a word, they ask, like everyone fucking else. Nit-picking grammar isn't going to win you friends, but when you're just talking to someone, giving off the impression that you're not some patronizing rube tends to go pretty far.
When I listen to great black orators speak, I rattle my brain as to why people -don't- want to emulate them. Then I remember - oh, yeah, right. They're all mostly conservatives or centrists, so we've got to malign that in favor of dumbshits engaging in afro-orientalism and trying to convince whitey that they're just attuning to the "soul and spirit of africa" by trying to mandate that a dialect be treated as its own distinct language. The unrelenting efforts of good white progressives to hide away black intellectuals and orators and instead turn all eyes and attention to hucksters and grifters is something I can only hope evokes a strong, strong reckoning down the line. 'Course, I don't think that'll ever actually happen; there's no meaningful opposition that'll rightly call attention to the behavior.