Inoue has emerged as one of the leading scholarly proponents within academia to denounce traditional spelling, grammar and punctuation grading norms as racist, and frequently gives talks to campuses to advance his argument. [More]
Destroying the common language is a sure way to erase history.
Another way of looking at Inou's argument is to note that every person in America gets 12 years of "free" education, and if they can't read, write and speak correctly after that the indictment is on public "educators" and on them.
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But don't you dare get the pronouns wrong!
Is it still a "theory" if the evidence of it working is obvious to the casual observer?
Any language professor who uses the phony verb "languaging" repeatedly should be fired.
Plus his appeal to the fallacious labor theory of value is economically illiterate. This is the theory that holds (among other things) that a day's work by a master plumber is equal in value to a day's work by Curly Howard. Sounds ridiculous, but re-read his very own example and see if you can find any difference.
I think what you meant is that, in the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. It will be the complete and final elimination of Goldsteinism.
It is obvious that a certain proportion of the population are immune to "book learning". There is nothing that can be done about that essential component except to find those individuals a job, carareer, or skill that doesn't require readin' and ritin'. There used to be a lot of such options before the jobs were all shipped overseas. I've known and worked with "smart" people who just didn't have a prayer of getting any information from writen or printed material. There are a lot of them. Get used to that. Good teachers can make a bit of progress but don't get your hopes up. There are very effective people who are blind to the marks on paper. They aren't "dumb", they just can't read. There is a reason that so many "manuals" including those in the military, look like comic books. The ones who also have no idea about a "job", being "useful" and "responsible" or even showing up on time are another matter.
I don't think that it is realistic to blame this problem on "schools", "politicians" maybe.
It doesn't take a whole bunch of economic book learning to see that the "value of work" is strongly dependent on the results. Give a master crafts(wo)man and a rank beginner the same tools, raw materials and time and examine the results. The amount of work will be the same, the results will not, nor will the value of the results.
That this easily disprovable premis is the core of Marxist economic theory should tell us all something, but some live in a universe where all of their wishes are possible regardless of any lessons humanity has accumulated over millions of years of practical experience.
Just don't tell that to a certain ex-bartender from Brooklyn. She'll make your head hurt in very short order.
P.S. The laws of thermodynamics tell us that it is impossible for anything in the universe to be "free". There is always a "cost."
Look up "entropy."
Probably not a good idea to tell her that either.
The "Three R's" used to be Readin', Ritin', and Rithmetic.
In the new order they have become Racism, Racism, and Racism.
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