This is a cross post from Equality 101.
I wrote a post the other day about Standard English Privilege that has garnered quite a bit of attention. The main argument of the post (I won’t bore you all with the details again) goes a little something like this:
Why is it that so often [...]
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Standard English Privilege and Teaching
Standard English Privilege and the Literate Argument
Why is it that so often on the internet I see people revert to the argument that so-and-so writer or commenter can’t spell or construct a grammatically correct argument and therefore the entire argument has no validity in this sphere?
Is literacy so important to credibility here?1 Or, let me rephrase: Is Standard English literacy so [...]
You’re right. I don’t know you.
This is a cross-post from Equality 101.
You know those days when everything just lines up perfectly and all your synapses start firing and things just connect? Yesterday was one of those days. It started with Adam’s thought-provoking post from yesterday and a conversation that keeps reoccurring with my students, continued during my grad class last [...]
Privilege
I just need to say something. Just to vent.
Privilege (white privilege, class privelige, male privilage, what have you) is not necessarily a bad thing. You don’t choose how or where or in what situatuon you’re born. I have privilege by accident of birth, and I do try to explore that privilege and what it [...]
