Poor Spellars Spellers: You’re Victims of Racism!
In Seattle schools, you’re racist if you have a Type A personality, are libertarian, or believe there is such a thing as “proper English.” From the definitions page of their “Equity and Race Relations” website:
Cultural Racism: Those aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and normality to white people and Whiteness, and devalue, stereotype, and label people of color as “other”, different, less than, or render them invisible. Examples of these norms include defining white skin tones as nude or flesh colored, having a future time orientation, emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology, defining one form of English as standard, and identifying only Whites as great writers or composers.
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They also have a definition of racism that is specific to a single race:
Racism: The systematic subordination of members of targeted racial groups who have relatively little social power in the United States (Blacks, Latino/as, Native Americans, and Asians), by the members of the agent racial group who have relatively more social power (Whites).
How … stereotypical.
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H/t: Volokh Conspiracy
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June 11th, 2006 at 4:29 am
individualism over collectivism speak for itself. Anyone that believes that I am a racist should probably find something unracist to be reading, so you’re welcome to leave because I don’t think we have much to say to one another. Independent Sourcesjumpson the “one form of English as standard” portion, which is a point that Adrianne Truett and others have noted in the past. I understand where they’re coming from, though since I do believe certain aspects of English language should be dropped (who/whom,