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2017-02-21 -Short Attention Span Theater-
College Writing Center Declares American Grammar A ‘Racist,’ ‘Unjust Language Structure’
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Posted by Fred 2017-02-21 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 gerunds are racist

so is the indefinite article

so is the making the subject and the verb agree on number
Posted by lord garth 2017-02-21 00:50||   2017-02-21 00:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Just like the villain in 1984. Controlling the language.
Posted by Herb McCoy7309 2017-02-21 01:31||   2017-02-21 01:31|| Front Page Top

#3 How many students think that proper writing is "texting" instead of spelling, punctuation and grammar?
Posted by magpie 2017-02-21 03:12||   2017-02-21 03:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Commas are the tool of Satan and lawyers but I repeat myself.
Posted by BrerRabbit 2017-02-21 04:00||   2017-02-21 04:00|| Front Page Top

#5 I could never understand what the ";" is used for, much less how it is used!
Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-02-21 04:16||   2017-02-21 04:16|| Front Page Top

#6 More Wizard of Oz diplomas all around.
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-02-21 08:00||   2017-02-21 08:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Sounds like a school where more federal dollars can be saved.
Posted by DarthVader 2017-02-21 09:44||   2017-02-21 09:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Yet they continue to wonder why the majority of us do not consider them 'elite'.
Posted by Cesare 2017-02-21 10:24||   2017-02-21 10:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Fine. I, as the owner of a business, only will hire those capable of communicating with my customers and other employees.

If you are not fluent in proper English that you don't get a job.
Posted by AlanC 2017-02-21 11:01||   2017-02-21 11:01|| Front Page Top

#10 I hope some of this cockamamie notions in universities can be cleaned up; otherwise, the universities will continue to spew out little lefties who cannot think for themselves or critically analyze and sort out things in some meaningful constructive way. They will continue to learn politically correct useless crap. Then they will be pissed off because they feel like they got screwed. They will continue to be easily duped and used by the left.
Posted by JohnQC 2017-02-21 11:06||   2017-02-21 11:06|| Front Page Top

#11 I always thought apostrophes (') were ugly.
Posted by borgboy 2017-02-21 11:57||   2017-02-21 11:57|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm sorry, I can't understand anything written by the director, staff, and/or tutors of the University of Washington, Tacoma’s Writing Center.

So your application for continued funding can't be processed.
Posted by Bobby 2017-02-21 12:50||   2017-02-21 12:50|| Front Page Top

#13 Gonna be hard to grade papers when you've basically told them following grammer rules is racist.
Posted by rjschwarz 2017-02-21 14:33||   2017-02-21 14:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Sorry, Libs, it wasn't my fault. The language made me do it.
Posted by gorb 2017-02-21 16:23||   2017-02-21 16:23|| Front Page Top

#15 Seems to indicate that perhaps the school doesn't need professors to teach such racism. Fire them all.
Posted by rjschwarz 2017-02-21 18:08||   2017-02-21 18:08|| Front Page Top

#16 ..and the sun sets in the west. The Left has been saying this for decades
Posted by Rex Mundi 2017-02-21 18:11||   2017-02-21 18:11|| Front Page Top

#17 Honky
Cracker
Beaner
Kike
Pollock
Jeme
Porch Monkey
Spear Chucker
Dune Coon
Cliff Dweller
Kraut
Chink
Gook
Wahoo
Homo Sapien not many left huh?
Posted by Crinegum Ulaigum2776 2017-02-21 18:41||   2017-02-21 18:41|| Front Page Top

#18 Mick
Ginny
Cat-lick
Coal Cracker
Leprecoon
Goombah
Grease ball
WOP
Kafir
Oreo
Slant

Humans have been racist since the dawn of humanity.

They are right that language is constantly changing, but it changes with everyone using it. If you can't use that language, you can't communicate.
It ain't racism. It is just facts.
Posted by DarthVader 2017-02-21 21:17||   2017-02-21 21:17|| Front Page Top

#19 From Harlem, but never in Holland,
A po' boy who never saw Poland
Was saved by his teachers
(inclusiveness preachers),
Who called him a perchild of coland.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-02-21 22:52||   2017-02-21 22:52|| Front Page Top

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