University of Washington Declares Proper Grammar Racist For Inclusivity

The UW Tacoma Writing Center's new antiracism and social justice statement aims to confront practices that are systemic throughout academia.

>The UW Tacoma Writing Center has taken significant steps towards standing against racism in the field of writing. With its new antiracism and social justice statement, the Center starts a conversation on the discrimination and alienation that often go unnoticed in academia. As the statement urges, “there is no inherent ‘standard’ of English,” and with this in mind, the Center aims to ensure that through compassion and careful consideration, staff do not inadvertently embrace racist practices.

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>Spearheaded by Writing Center Director Dr. Asao Inoue—who is also an associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences and director of university writing—the statement is very much influenced by Inoue’s research on racism in writing assessments. In his 2015 book, Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future, Inoue considered the many ways in which racism becomes apparent in academia, as well as proposed that only through the acknowledgment of structures of racism could they begin to be dismantled. Dr. Inoue, who has received two Outstanding Book Awards—the first in 2014 for Race and Writing Assessment and again in 2017 for Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies—from the Conference on College Composition and Communication, has dedicated his career to the study of rhetoric and composition, in order to better understand and work to solve racial inequity in academia.

>Every student, regardless of their background, comes to college with a different collection of experiences, said Dr. Inoue. “The anti-racism statement is a document that took over a year to collaboratively create with writing center professional staff and student writing consultants. It was officially put up and incorporated in our work in the fall of 2016, so we are just beginning.” Dr. Inoue contends that in order for something to become anti-racist, there must first be an earnest discussion of how racism has produced certain standards of education or systems themselves. As a result of the pervasiveness of racism, Inoue argues, its presence must be acknowledged on a systemic level, and thus this statement was born.

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>“It is a founding assumption that, if believed, one must act differently than we, the institution and its agents, have up to this point,” said Inoue. While overt racism is usually easily identified, more elusive are microaggressions, forms of degradation which manifest on a subconscious and casual level. As the statement reads “Racism is pervasive. It is in the systems, structures, rules, languages, expectations, and guidelines that make up our classes, school, and society,”

>Ultimately, the statement exists in the hopes that by understanding racism and imparting students with a critical thought process, that they may be better prepared not only to develop as writers but also to achieve their highest possible level of success.

>Dr. Jill Purdy, vice chancellor of undergraduate affairs and an advocate for the writing statement, notes that it “is a great example of how we are striving to act against racism. Language is the bridge between ideas and action, so how we use words has a lot of influence on what we think and do.”

what exactly does this accomplish? So, if a student can't correctly conjugate a verb, they don't get corrected so they can learn from their error?

Is this what I'm seeing? What does "inclusivity" have to do with any of this?

The writing center works from several important beliefs that are crucial to helping writers write and succeed in a racist society. The racist conditions of our society are not simply a matter of bias or prejudice that some people hold. In fact, most racism, for instance, is not accomplished through intent. Racism is the normal condition of things. Racism is pervasive. It is in the systems, structures, rules, languages, expectations, and guidelines that make up our classes, school, and society. For example, linguistic and writing research has shown clearly for many decades that there is no inherent “standard” of English. Language is constantly changing. These two facts make it very difficult to justify placing people in hierarchies or restricting opportunities and privileges because of the way people communicate in particular versions of English.

that what it say. that what it say.

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WASHINGTON YES!

>"'Standard' of English" in scare quotes.

Nice to see postmodernists come out and just admit that Western standards are their target.

>“there is no inherent ‘standard’ of English,”
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What could go wrong?

>the year 2028
>"Welcome to AP English and Literature. Today, we'll be reading a rather difficult work titled 'OMG shakespeare!' and at the end of the week you will text me your essay."

We need to just start revoking accreditations of schools that pull this shit.

So this Nigger "English" (Ebonics or whatever the fuck its called) will be tolerated by this university? Really? How can they uphold academic standards then? These apes can barely read. Look at their stupid names: "Tashonda'Niquer" or "LaShaun"...like animals trying to imitate human behaviour.

This kills the English language as we know it.

I can translate this.
>We just want money and have no intention of teaching our students anything. Retards welcome. We want the call of duty audience.

So its Like Russian and Ukranian yes?

WASHINGTON STATE YES.

It's baceuse tey ive in a bacist soopychety

>burger doesn't know of russian literature

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we shud rite dis nigr a lettr or sumtn

Thank goodness someone is finally trying to stop our language from being hateful.

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>Dr. Asao Inoue
This is a man that has made a career out of shouting
>Dass raycis!
From his bio at the uni:
>Degrees Ph.D. Rhetoric and Composition
>Washington State University
>2005
>Introduction

>I do research that investigates racism in writing assessments (e.g. writing programs, writing placement, etc.), which includes classroom writing assessments. About half of my work is theoretical, while the other half is empirical in nature. I've published articles and chapters on validity, classroom writing assessment, grading contracts, assessment as rhetoric, reflection practices, failure in writing assessments, among other things. In the past, I've paid close attention to the Hmong racial formation and their writing and reflection practices.

>My teaching has always been very important to me. It is the place from which all my research springs. I enjoy teaching writing classes of all stripes, including first-year writing and writing in the major courses. My favorite courses to teach are the first year writing courses. The center of all my courses is the grading contract and our community-developed assessment processes and expectations.
Holy shit, these people exist.

I just don't understand this shit. Racism from whose viewpoint? Why is the slant right outta the gate that everyone and everything is racist? It's not an objective start. If you go looking for racism, you'll find it. Based on your own proclivities not necessarily abject racism.

derp.

If I correct a white guys grammar that means i'm racist?

I go to UW Tacoma.. Fml. Good thing im white and not a fucking retard so I never go to the writing center. Fucking kikes man.

>i'm
The 'i' should be caps.
>I'm

>inb4 ree

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Ok thanks.

>errors

Wow you fucking racist. Speaking Black American is NOT errors.

Sup Forums will ignore this.

>32 / 5 / 23 / 6

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