Is Teaching Standard English ‘Oppressive’?
Always looking for things to gripe about, many college English profs have jumped on the “standard English is oppressive” bandwagon. Supposedly, doing so helps perpetuate “white privilege.”
In today’s Martin Center article, Nan Miller looks at this lunacy, which recently surfaced in Colorado.
If you thought that academe’s social-justice warriors would retreat in 2025, you will be disheartened to hear what just happened at the Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU). In compliance with the CCCC’s 2020 resolution, in December MSU’s Writing........
