It’s just amazing that people pay to have this garbage put into their heads. And of course, it’s required.
Campus Reform reports:
Texas A&M San Antonio English course ties standard English to ‘oppression’Students at Texas A&M University–San Antonio say a required English course teaches that standard academic English reflects systems of power and inequality, raising concerns about ideological bias in a general education requirement.Course materials reviewed by Campus Reform show that assigned readings challenge the idea that standard English is an objective communication tool, instead framing it as a product of social and political structures. Students are required to engage with these ideas in graded assignments.One required reading includes Gloria Anzaldúa’s essay, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” which explores the relationship between language, identity, and power. In the text, Anzaldúa writes, “As long as I have to accommodate the English speakers rather than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate.”The essay also states, “I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice… I will overcome the tradition of silence,” framing language as central to identity and resistance.Additional passages describe cultural tensions, including references to “the dominant norteamericano culture” and “white laws and commerce,” presenting language as part of a broader social struggle.Students say these themes shape how writing is taught in the course.“I feel as if my English class is degrading the very English it’s seeking to teach,” one student, who requested anonymity, told Campus Reform. “There is a bias toward certain groups… and it makes people who disagree feel very cast out.”The course also includes a pledge at the beginning of the syllabus advocating for social justice, stating: “We acknowledge the land we are on, the Yanaguana, named for the life-giving waters of the San Antonio River … We acknowledge the physical and cultural violence of colonialism … We acknowledge the complex history of the U.S. university system, which has expanded access to education but which has also profited from the dispossession of Indigenous land and from the labor of enslaved people. In the face of this history, we commit to decolonial work… We pledge to learn about and act in solidarity with Indigenous struggles for social justice.”
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