Wow. This was a really well-written article, and not too much needs to be added.
My random observations:
Inoue and these other preachers of anti-racism essentially make it all about them, appointing themselves as messiahs to the oppressed races and insisting members of those races validate their messianic pretention by falling in line behi…
Wow. This was a really well-written article, and not too much needs to be added.
My random observations:
Inoue and these other preachers of anti-racism essentially make it all about them, appointing themselves as messiahs to the oppressed races and insisting members of those races validate their messianic pretention by falling in line behind them.
The first year students are of course as the article points out interested in learning how to communicate with and be read and respected by a wide audience. And this isn't really any different than, say, a white kid from the suburbs who wasn't born learning to communicate to a wide audience in standard English.
Moreover, as a self-observant person who reads widely I find myself adopting writing styles from the authors who impressed me, at least for a time after reading them. Human nature.
Then again I use a few expressions from characters in Patrick O'Brian's "Master and Commander" series just because they're unusual and quaint.
And I still quote from the 60's/70's comedy troupe "Firesign Theater" at times, though most people around me don't know what I'm talking about.
Wow. This was a really well-written article, and not too much needs to be added.
My random observations:
Inoue and these other preachers of anti-racism essentially make it all about them, appointing themselves as messiahs to the oppressed races and insisting members of those races validate their messianic pretention by falling in line behind them.
The first year students are of course as the article points out interested in learning how to communicate with and be read and respected by a wide audience. And this isn't really any different than, say, a white kid from the suburbs who wasn't born learning to communicate to a wide audience in standard English.
Moreover, as a self-observant person who reads widely I find myself adopting writing styles from the authors who impressed me, at least for a time after reading them. Human nature.
Then again I use a few expressions from characters in Patrick O'Brian's "Master and Commander" series just because they're unusual and quaint.
And I still quote from the 60's/70's comedy troupe "Firesign Theater" at times, though most people around me don't know what I'm talking about.