You're guessing at people's motives and making what appear to be broad, unsupported assertions
Isaac Send a noteboard - 12/01/2010 11:04:47 PM
It is entirely possible that someone who thinks AAE is bad english just happens to be wrong because they don't know or get the specific details. If this is some easy issue everyone should be able to grasp, then why do they hand out degrees in linguistics? Your assuming racism is automatically the reason for people having that opinion is like me calling people Luddites when they object to demoting Pluto from planetary status. It wouldn't matter if 99% of Luddites agreed with them either, doesn't automatically make them one. Same, being racist probably inclines people to think AAE is bad english, does not mean people who concur are also racist. That's a heck of an insult to be chucking around at people. I would say the vast majority of people simply don't understand the debate at all, so their personality, if any blanket statement can be made, is probably less likely to be racist' as it is 'know it all who insists on having opinions about stuff they lack more than a smattering of info about'.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
King of Cairhien 20-7-2
Chancellor of the Landsraad, Archduke of Is'Mod
- Albert Einstein
King of Cairhien 20-7-2
Chancellor of the Landsraad, Archduke of Is'Mod
This message last edited by Isaac on 12/01/2010 at 11:07:43 PM
So what EXACTLY is the problem with Reid's comments?
- 12/01/2010 04:11:56 AM
1178 Views
it wasn't just that he commented on the lack of "dialect"
- 12/01/2010 04:16:27 AM
850 Views
Regardless of that, I don't see the ability to use dialect as a racist statement.
- 12/01/2010 04:32:07 AM
791 Views
when was the last time you heard a white person speaking ebonics?
- 12/01/2010 01:41:24 PM
807 Views
A week or so ago.
- 12/01/2010 08:09:09 PM
752 Views
Isn't that the definition of a wigger? A white person who speaks/acts like a black person?
- 12/01/2010 09:49:34 PM
782 Views
And the fact that Wigger = White N****r isn't racist at all! *NM*
- 12/01/2010 10:33:04 PM
393 Views
I wasn't using the term seriously 9_9
- 13/01/2010 04:26:20 AM
743 Views
Mocking white people for "acting like black people" by modifying a slur on blacks... hm... *NM*
- 13/01/2010 06:50:46 AM
327 Views
You know, what IS a good term for black people these days?
- 12/01/2010 04:36:33 AM
850 Views
I just use "black"
- 12/01/2010 02:27:16 PM
733 Views
Why is it OK to discriminate on the grounds of language but not race?
- 12/01/2010 08:23:21 AM
940 Views
Please tell me you were joking... *NM*
- 12/01/2010 01:29:37 PM
335 Views
Your AAE is a language the way that Pig Latin is a language.
- 12/01/2010 06:38:35 PM
768 Views
You know, arguing what a language is with a linguist is pretty much set up for failure *NM*
- 12/01/2010 07:58:42 PM
464 Views
I recall having a similar discussion on this very topic a few years ago with Tim.
- 12/01/2010 08:10:53 PM
685 Views
Re: I recall having a similar discussion on this very topic a few years ago with Tim.
- 12/01/2010 09:06:01 PM
802 Views
Maybe, but having knowledge of the topic wasn't one of my advantages in that argument.
*NM*
- 13/01/2010 03:36:31 AM
318 Views
*NM*
- 13/01/2010 03:36:31 AM
318 Views
I don't even know where to begin.
- 12/01/2010 09:43:21 PM
857 Views
That third point is going a bit far.
- 12/01/2010 10:06:08 PM
819 Views
You're right, I was conflating two separate points.
- 12/01/2010 10:14:48 PM
754 Views
Well, it still only applies...
- 12/01/2010 10:24:08 PM
896 Views
You ascribe too much intelligence to the average American racist
.
- 12/01/2010 10:30:39 PM
970 Views
.
- 12/01/2010 10:30:39 PM
970 Views
You're guessing at people's motives and making what appear to be broad, unsupported assertions
- 12/01/2010 11:04:47 PM
803 Views
I don't mean they're racist in all respects.
- 13/01/2010 06:52:20 AM
703 Views
Your defintion of racism and sexism seems to massively differ from mine
- 13/01/2010 03:37:46 PM
866 Views
I had to think about this for a few days, but I've now worked out my answer.
- 16/01/2010 01:59:25 PM
832 Views
I had no problems with them. And I don't even like the guy and hope he loses his reelection battle.
- 12/01/2010 03:32:42 PM
878 Views
Who seriously uses the term "Negro dialect" anymore?
- 13/01/2010 02:00:15 AM
742 Views
It's not the word "Negro" in "Magic Negro" that's the most offensive part. *NM*
- 13/01/2010 09:16:20 AM
322 Views
