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personally i find “pluto is one of maybe a hundred weird little worlds in the kuiper belt, and they’re all different and we have so much to learn about all of them!” way more exciting and interesting than “pluto is the ninth planet because nostalgia”
just saw someone use the phrase “and then the kinkshaming started rolling in” which makes me think of a humble kink farmer, chewing on a piece of hay, cupping a hand over his eyes to see a storm of angry kinkshamers brewing on the horizon and saying “better hide the fursuits, boys, it’s gonna be a big one”
I don’t understand why some Christians promote abstinence as a form of birth control when it didn’t even work for Mary.
I really shouldn’t be laughing right now.
a mariokart named desire
why do most extended-range bass guitars look like fantasy dragon dicks
scandalous
 i will reblog this as many times as it takes me to stop finding this funny
i think about “in a world where clowns are real” at least once a month
Watch: Complaining about political correctness says more about you than it does others.
No one is saying it’s not great when a police officer gives a homeless guy a pair of shoes, plays basketball instead of warning kids about keeping it down, or buys chips and soda for a community centre.
What people are saying is that those gestures are largely meaningless unless coupled with active dissent against the larger issues of corruption and racism within the police force itself.
Also a lot of that shit is staged
kinda tired of my beard
4chan = white nationalist skinhead wannabe edgelords reddit = epic bacon nerd culture libertarians tumblr = 12 year old communists facebook = conspiracy theory-addled GOP baby boomers slowly regressing back to infancy twitter = ??????
Twitter is where they all convene to fight each other like a social media Thunderdome
everytime I come back to tumblr (which is maybe once a week or so) I’m always within about 10 minutes feeling  like “huh, I’m glad I don’t get on here more often”
honestly the only things I want to see regularly on here that I do see are posts by makeda, marc, dylan and possibly others I know in real life
“i don’t judge people based on race, creed, color, or gender. i judge people based on spelling, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure.”
i hate to burst your pretentious little bubble, but linguistic prejudice is inextricably tied to racism, sexism, classism, xenophobia, and ableism.
ETA: don’t send me angry messages about this…at all, preferably, but at least check the tag for this post before firing off an irate screed.
no one seems to be following the directive above, so here’s the version of this post i would like all you indignant folk to read.
no, i am not saying that people of color, women, poor people, disabled people, etc, “can’t learn proper english.” what i’m saying is that how we define “proper english” is itself rooted in bigotry. aave is not bad english, it’s a marginalized dialect which is just as useful, complex, and efficient as the english you’re taught in school. “like” as a filler word, valley girl speech, and uptalk don’t indicate vapidity, they’re common verbal patterns that serve a purpose. etc.
because the point of language is to communicate, and there are many ways to go about that. different communities have different needs; different people have different habits. so if you think of certain usages as fundamentally “wrong” or “bad,” if you think there’s a “pure” form of english to which everyone should aspire, then i challenge you to justify that view. i challenge you to explain why “like” makes people sound “stupid,” while “um” doesn’t raise the same alarms. explain the problem with the habitual be. don’t appeal to popular opinion, don’t insist that it just sounds wrong. give a detailed explanation.
point being that the concept of “proper english” is culturally constructed, and carries cultural biases with it. those usages you consider wrong? they aren’t. they’re just different, and common to certain marginalized groups.
not to mention that many people who speak marginalized dialects are adept at code-switching, i.e. flipping between non-standard dialects and “standard english,” which makes them more literate than most of the people complaining about this post.
not to mention that most of the people complaining about this post do not speak/write english nearly as “perfectly” as they’d like to believe and would therefore benefit by taking my side.
not to mention that the claim i’m making in the OP is flat-out not that interesting. this is sociolinguistics 101. this is the first chapter of your intro to linguistics textbook. the only reason it sounds so outlandish is that we’ve been inundated with the idea that how people speak and write is a reflection of their worth. and that’s a joyless, elitist idea you need to abandon if you care about social justice or, frankly, the beauty of language.
and yes, this issue matters. if we perceive people as lesser on the basis of language, we treat them as lesser. and yes, it can have real ramifications–in employment (tossing resumes with “black-sounding names”), in the legal system (prejudice against rachel jeantel’s language in the trayvon martin trial), in education (marginalizing students due to prejudice against dialectical differences, language-related disabilities, etc), and…well, a lot.
no, this doesn’t mean that there’s never a reason to follow the conventions of “standard english.” different genres, situations, etc, have different conventions and that’s fine. what it does mean, however, is that this standard english you claim to love so much has limited usefulness, and that, while it may be better in certain situations, it is not inherently better overall. it also means that non-standard dialects can communicate complex ideas just as effectively as the english you were taught in school. and it means that, while it’s fine to have personal preferences regarding language (i have plenty myself), 1) it’s worth interrogating the source of your preferences, and 2) it’s never okay to judge people on the basis of their language use.
so spare me your self-righteous tirades, thanks.
Oh my gosh YES, this post got so much better.
this is sociolinguistics 101. this is the first chapter of your intro to linguistics textbook.Â
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and yes, this issue matters. if we perceive people as lesser on the basis of language, we treat them as lesser. and yes, it can have real ramifications
With a great big hug
And a kiss from me to you
#6212: words can hurt others
Being abused can seriously affect your ability to distinguish between “not obviously pleased” and “obviously displeased” because abusers go from Neutral to Hostile for absolutely no discernible reason, and eventually you start worrying that everyone is going to be like that and you start feeling this urge to make absolutely sure that the people you actually care about aren’t mad or upset, because to you, “there’s no evidence that they’re not angry” is the same as “there’s evidence that they are angry”
Oh.
