In addition to the problems you've identified, calling the teaching and use of standard English racist has always struck me as an extremely narrow and unequal definition of racism. For English learners, most of whom are not white, standard English is much easier to understand than dialects that deviate from it in significant ways. The wo…
In addition to the problems you've identified, calling the teaching and use of standard English racist has always struck me as an extremely narrow and unequal definition of racism. For English learners, most of whom are not white, standard English is much easier to understand than dialects that deviate from it in significant ways. The world that people like Inuoe are ultimately trying to build, where no one dialect is privileged by being considered the standard, would be a nightmare for learners.
In addition to the problems you've identified, calling the teaching and use of standard English racist has always struck me as an extremely narrow and unequal definition of racism. For English learners, most of whom are not white, standard English is much easier to understand than dialects that deviate from it in significant ways. The world that people like Inuoe are ultimately trying to build, where no one dialect is privileged by being considered the standard, would be a nightmare for learners.