guess they can close the english dept. and save money then, yes?
Posted on 07/25/2020 7:04:45 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
The English department at a public university declared that proper English grammar is racist.
Rutgers University's English department will change its standards of English instruction in an effort to "stand with and respond" to the Black Lives Matter movement. In an email written by department chairwoman Rebecca Walkowitz, the Graduate Writing Program will emphasize "social justice" and "critical grammar."
Walkowitz said the department would respond to recent events with "workshops on social justice and writing," "increasing focus on graduate student life," and "incorporating ‘critical grammar' into our pedagogy." The "critical grammar" approach challenges the standard academic form of the English language in favor of a more inclusive writing experience. The curriculum puts an emphasis on the variability of the English language instead of accuracy.
"This approach challenges the familiar dogma that writing instruction should limit emphasis on grammar/sentence-level issues so as to not put students from multilingual, non-standard ‘academic' English backgrounds at a disadvantage," Walkowitz said. "Instead, it encourages students to develop a critical awareness of the variety of choices available to them [with] regard to micro-level issues in order to empower them and equip them to push against biases based on ‘written' accents."
Additionally, the department said it will provide more reading to upper-level writing classes on the subjects of racism, sexism, homophobia, and related forms of "systemic discrimination."
Leonydus Johnson, a speech pathologist and libertarian activist, said the school's change makes the racist assumption that minorities cannot comprehend traditional English. Johnson called the change "insulting, patronizing, and in itself, extremely racist."
"The idea that expecting a student to write in grammatically correct sentences is indicative of racial bias is asinine," Johnson told the Washington Free Beacon. "It's like these people believe that being non-white is an inherent handicap or learning disability…. That's racism. It has become very clear to me that those who claim to be ‘anti-racist' are often the most racist people in this country."
Rutgers's new anti-racist language standard comes alongside a litany of changes at other universities. Princeton University's board of trustees voted to remove Woodrow Wilson's name from its public policy school and one of its residential colleges to denounce the former president's "racist thinking and policies." The James Madison residential college at Michigan State University is considering making a similar change. Activists at the University of Pittsburgh have called for the firing of any employee deemed racist or discriminatory by students, and the school said it will give the demands "serious consideration."
The Rutgers English department created a Committee on Bias Awareness and Prevention in 2012. In light of Black Lives Matter protests, the school has moved past bias awareness and prevention and into a focus on "decolonization." Walkowitz's email talks of "decolonizing the writing center." The department offers a specific internship titled "Decolonizing the Writing Center" to "make the writing centers more linguistically diverse."
The university and Walkowitz did not respond to requests for comment.
Colleges and universities are determined to make a college degree worthless, yet still charging an arm and a leg for one.
From what I've seen on other social media sites this is well underway. Some "sentences" are barely readable by some posters.
IF we give up the language then what do we have??
The progression into a steaming pile of shit continues, being driven by the most “educated”.
There’s nothing like a society of narrow minded, bullshit agenda driven educated fools.
To unwind the impact and damage is a another problem that these fools and idiots lack the ability to foresee.
Truly “useful idiots”.
Bad grammar is racist? Seems like so many, encompassing all races, are afflicted with bad grammar anymore. So how is that racist?
I'll bet a lot of Rutgers students will axe to enroll in this internship.
But, can we really expect children raised in the American "Educational" system to conjugate verbs? (I be, he be, dey be...).
The left seeks to destroy society from within each and every organization comprising it.
Never a racist thought.
What do we have? A huge step back down the ladder and regression into being monkeys.
We should never care about what oozes out of Rutgers University, posing as education.
watch dem words
Grammar ain’t racist...but Gramps was a member of the KKK.
So rap is the new English at Rutgers. This woman belongs nowhere in a English language teaching environment and needs to be fired
guess they can close the english dept. and save money then, yes?
The Grammar Police on Free Republic need to take note of this.
You have it backwards.
It seems that Rutgers is no longer a university. It’s a dumb-dumb “skool” instead!!!!
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