RE: Correcting grammar is racist.
April 23, 2016 at 3:51 pm
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2016 at 4:00 pm by Regina.)
Correcting grammar is stupid. English isn't everyone's first language, and even if it is, as long as you can understand what is being said it doesn't matter.
The concept of "talking white" is bollocks though. Are you talking about white people from London, from Sydney, from New York, The Deep South Hicks? There's countless "white" dialects of English and many sound even more slang-y and "broken" than AAVE.
Calling out that blacks commit more crime out of context is a farce though. Everyone always wants to say "oh those blacks, so much crime, black-on-black crime!" nobody ever asks an important question, seriously, "why?". Nobody wants to address the cuts to funding of inner city schools, the school-to-prison pipeline, the bullshit and biased "war on drugs", the lack of support for grass-roots movements to help people break the cycle of crime and violence. Instead we'd rather send white police in, with no emotional attachment to the neighbourhood, to "deal" with the problem. At that point someone typically ends up dead who doesn't need to be.
The concept of "talking white" is bollocks though. Are you talking about white people from London, from Sydney, from New York, The Deep South Hicks? There's countless "white" dialects of English and many sound even more slang-y and "broken" than AAVE.
Calling out that blacks commit more crime out of context is a farce though. Everyone always wants to say "oh those blacks, so much crime, black-on-black crime!" nobody ever asks an important question, seriously, "why?". Nobody wants to address the cuts to funding of inner city schools, the school-to-prison pipeline, the bullshit and biased "war on drugs", the lack of support for grass-roots movements to help people break the cycle of crime and violence. Instead we'd rather send white police in, with no emotional attachment to the neighbourhood, to "deal" with the problem. At that point someone typically ends up dead who doesn't need to be.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
