Rutgers Declares Grammar Racist
Washington Free Beacon,
by
Chrissy Clark
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
7/26/2020 12:21:04 PM
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.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
John C 7/26/2020 12:26:30 PM (No. 491062)
What so Americans get to speak, Esperanza?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
VAPMAN 7/26/2020 12:33:17 PM (No. 491070)
What a load of garbage. Who would pay money to be indoctrinated by that college.
We seem to be fast approaching the time when any word you say can be considered racist. Therefore we should outlaw all verbal communication between humans. Period.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
NeverForget 7/26/2020 12:34:04 PM (No. 491071)
Nothing like promoting illiteracy to move a society forward.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Avanti1 7/26/2020 12:35:25 PM (No. 491072)
This is pure drivel!
Is that grammatically correct?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
pearlyjo 7/26/2020 12:35:29 PM (No. 491073)
If you have spent any time in an English Department or College of Education in the last 30 years, you have already heard this in discussions, books and coursework. It's absolute bosh and these academicians know it. It's just another way for eggheads to write a book and keep their tenure or worse, keep a certain group of people down. And by that certain group, I do mean black Americans. The language of the elite won't change, trust me. It's always good to keep in mind the saying about the one-eyed man living amongst the blind when you are dealing with Lefties. They want to be king, so they'll blind you if necessary.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Highlander 7/26/2020 12:41:49 PM (No. 491078)
Soon, this will be what the department head speaks: “ Yeh son daym, we gon get hyphy up in that bizzitch, muh nug!“
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jalo1951 7/26/2020 12:43:37 PM (No. 491079)
So are they saying that there is no such thing as proper English (written and spoken) or are blacks just to stupid to learn how to use proper English? I cringe whenever is hear someone say, "We be outside when we done seen them running up the alley". I trust the usage of proper English will now be classified as "white privilege".
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Polecat49 7/26/2020 12:48:50 PM (No. 491087)
academia once again MOONS and shows their butts to the American People. so-called higher education is going to Have To Be Abolished and restarted from the ground up.
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Iz hapy wif dis dezishun soz I kin apli fo' a job like bein' a purfesor of Englush at Ruggers
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
dbdiva 7/26/2020 12:50:16 PM (No. 491091)
So...... If I prefer not to end a sentence with a preposition that makes me racist? What IS racist - and I agree with Mr. Johnson in the article - is to assume that minority students are unable to understand or cope with rules of English grammar which necessitates lowering standards for everyone to accommodate the few.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
NHChemist 7/26/2020 12:50:34 PM (No. 491092)
Time for the English department to have sub-departments. Ebonics department and Spanglish department come to mind.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
marbles 7/26/2020 12:55:03 PM (No. 491099)
Rutgers is the state college of NJ. How can grammar be " racist " ? Answer, it isn't unless you decide for some P.C. reason to declare it to be so. This is pandering at the taxpayers expense and it stinks. Hasn't anyone at Rutgers taken look at the BLM website The intent of BLM is destroy our country.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/26/2020 1:11:54 PM (No. 491124)
Yeah, because I’d just love to read a novel written in Ebonics.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DARling 7/26/2020 1:18:54 PM (No. 491128)
I find it ironic that a segment of our society decries the fact that slavery existed in America, but speaking like a slave is somehow a virtue.
Blacks in Great Britain speak like people of other races in Great Britain. American blacks could learn something from their counterparts across the pond.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Ribicon 7/26/2020 1:21:46 PM (No. 491133)
Henry Rutgers, the school's namesake, was a slaveowner. Anything short of renaming the school after a prominent Person of African Descent is akin to endorsing slavery. Stick it to 'em. Likewise Yale University and many others.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ming 7/26/2020 1:28:40 PM (No. 491142)
Okay. In that case, why should any university have an English department. Shut it down tomorrow and hire more STEM profs.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy 7/26/2020 1:30:54 PM (No. 491148)
Grammatical affirmative action, what will the morons in academia think of next? It is truly pathetic that by pandering in this fashion to the lowest common denominator, Rutgers is saying that excellence and achievement are not worthy learning goals. This policy also infers that blacks are too stupid to learn, and is far more racist than grammar could ever be.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Lazyman 7/26/2020 1:34:25 PM (No. 491155)
We thought in America we could bring everyone up to a high standard. It has become obvious we are sinking down to a meritless society that will not be able to compete with other nations.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Saryden 7/26/2020 1:35:46 PM (No. 491157)
I think they are saying that so the criticism of Moochelle's college papers will go away.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Rather Read 7/26/2020 1:59:57 PM (No. 491179)
All I have to see is the word critical to know the academic idiots are out to ruin yet another disciple. We'll have critical engineers whose buildings will all fall down, and critical doctors who won't know a man from a woman (sorry, we already have them).
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/26/2020 2:01:34 PM (No. 491181)
Everything I learned about Socially Just language, I learned from dialog in the old Johnny Weissmuller movies.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 7/26/2020 2:20:37 PM (No. 491199)
Ms Walkowitz, gey kaken ofn yam.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy 7/26/2020 2:24:50 PM (No. 491204)
Second comment. It is a stunning irony that what the students will learn at Rutgers will be on a far lower level than the standard college entrance exam.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
snakeoil 7/26/2020 2:27:02 PM (No. 491205)
Replacing the pepper shakers at lunch tables is easy. Each table will have two pepper shakers and salt will be thrown back into the sea. The real challenge to to replace black asphalt with white.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
AltaD 7/26/2020 2:27:43 PM (No. 491207)
Your average community college has higher standards.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
fayebeck 7/26/2020 2:31:51 PM (No. 491212)
I am hoping something good comes from this. Like getting rid of the "it's the parents fault" crap.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mathman 7/26/2020 2:40:05 PM (No. 491221)
It is war against meaning. It is a demonstration of the fact that the Left cannot communicate. Words shift their meanings. Grammar cannot be used to comprehend what someone is writing.
"premium" does not premium, it means tax.
"sex" does not mean sex, it means gender identity.
"BLM" does not mean that black lives matter.
"free" does not mean free.
"democracy" means totalitarian rule.
Black means white.
White means black.
Wet means dry.
Dry means wet.
"When I use a word, it means whatever I want at the time."
Forget communicating withn Antifa or BLM. They don't communicate. They just riot, and Blame, (jew), and murder.
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What next - using soap?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
3XALADY 7/26/2020 3:15:13 PM (No. 491248)
From what I hear and read, grammar has not been taught much the past years. And spelling too. Their, they're and there will get them every time.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
DARling 7/26/2020 3:25:59 PM (No. 491261)
#30, they believe the spell checker is an all-knowing oracle, never to be questioned. They can't quite grasp that it does not always pick up context. Not an independent thought in the bunch.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
ramona 7/26/2020 4:29:35 PM (No. 491302)
There was a time when teachers and other people looked at the use of a non-standard dialect (southern/Appalachian etc) as an indication of low intelligence. Black children were routinely placed in special ed. solely on the basis of their dialect. We know today that this is wrong. A person's worth is not based on how they use language.
However, it is unfair to put barriers in the way of students learning standard English. How will we enforce contracts, follow directions for construction, etc. etc. if we do not have a standard? The standard of course changes in some ways depending on whether one is writing formally or informally, fiction, prose, technical documents, etc. And academic disciplines often have unique standards. We follow these standards to facilitate communication and understanding.
There are some cretins at Rutgers and other places that long for a return to Babel.
As Kevin would say, "Scroom!"
Ramona (the Pest)
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/26/2020 4:41:08 PM (No. 491306)
SO that means that Commie speak, the BS of hate is good?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Safari Man 7/26/2020 5:08:33 PM (No. 491316)
Cut me some slack Jack. June Cleaver speaks Jive. We all must learn Jive, yo homies.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
EaglePaul 7/26/2020 5:50:07 PM (No. 491361)
Ladies and Gentlemen, this my Alma Mater. On behalf of those who earned their degree before this once-proud institution became a punch line, I apologize.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 7/26/2020 6:13:49 PM (No. 491380)
For Whom the Bell Tolls will be replaced with Whoze dat bell ring for?
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Scribelus 7/26/2020 6:24:33 PM (No. 491394)
Professor Walkowitz did not respond to a request for an interview, being absent in a prolonged search for the other half of her wit.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Pam 7/26/2020 7:57:31 PM (No. 491450)
Once again embarrassed by a fellow female. Cream is not rising to the top.
This is getting tiring.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
lakerman1 7/26/2020 8:23:40 PM (No. 491465)
In 1973, the Modern Language Association, which is like the AMA for English teachers, proclaimed that no one form of English is better than any other form of English.
things went downhill, ever since.
and, ironically enough, some of the best writers I had as students, were Africans. Not African Americans, mind you. Africans.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Gazela 7/27/2020 12:51:46 AM (No. 491582)
The real irony is that anyone who aspires to write something that other people will want to read will, of necessity, learn standard English grammar or something close to it.
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