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  • Guardian: Correct Grammar is a Racist Power Imbalance

    04/23/2016 5:23:29 PM PDT · by markomalley · 88 replies
    Truth Revolt ^ | 4/23/16 | Mark Tapson
    If you're a proud grammar snob, the leftwing Guardian's Mona Chalabi wants you to know that you're simply a wealthy, white racist trying to silence minority voices like hers in order to maintain your wealthy, white, racist power imbalance. In the short video above, Chalabi attempts to suggest that grammar rules don't even exist in the real world, only in the condescending minds of wealthy, white racists.  She acknowledges the "grammar snob's" argument that everyone needs a common set of rules that everyone can understand, but attempts to rebut this by saying such rules aren't commonly held at all -- "they're just their rules." This is the linguistic equivalent of...