Students Claim Required English Course at Texas A&M San Antonio Ties Standard English to ‘Oppression’
“teaches that standard academic English reflects systems of power and inequality”
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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so what
english language is taught the world over b/c when maga….you want to be with the best
fu lefty
Texas A&M San Antonio English course ties standard English to ‘oppression’
At first I thought that the article was about students stating that standard English was tied to ‘oppression.’ Not so. It was about a college teacher indoctrinating college students to believe that standard English was tied to ‘oppression.’
Yet she is writing in English.
Why would anybody who CHOSE to be a professor of English subject his students to hateful rot like that? Were there no slots available in the Lesbian Basketweaving department?
Are these classes oppressive:
Teaching French in France
Teaching German in Germany
Teaching Italian in Italy
Very oppressive. Not diverse at all.
Speaking and writing standard English is essential to career success. Losing the opportunity to teach levels of English usage and acquaint students with what is appropriate in different situations is an abuse of students and defrauds them. Every faculty and administrator who approved this class is a juvenile and should not be allowed to teach.
I work in a University and I have a mind boggling concept that I have to explain to people, from time to time. I call it “The Choice”.
We have certain requirements for our employees and the basic premise of “The Choice” is that you can choose to meet those requirements and have a good long career or you can choose not to meet those requirements and take your career aspirations elsewhere. Either way doesn’t matter to me because it’s your “choice”.
It seems the same would apply here, you can either take the required course and continue getting your worthless 50k piece of paper in underwater basket weaving or you can not take the required course and take your education aspirations elsewhere. Either way it is a “choice”.
Pretty simple really.
And people pay good money for this drivel. The only way colleges and universities can get away with this is because of the federal student loan program. President Trump should terminate the federal student loan program, and let colleges and universities take it over. When they’re on the hook for defaults they will quickly moderate their pricing and just as quickly terminate this drivel so students can get usable degrees.
Or maybe let them flip burgers until they can afford their tuition.
Whine, kids, whine.
That’s what it takes to get you poor kid’s victimization by the nasty ole assimilation crowds appreciated.
Write to Schmuck Schumer and demand for an end to this academic “oppression”! Because Schmuck cares! Call his office. Demand justice!
Texas A&M says it, so it must be true. Tell Schumer your college sent you.
“Whine, kids, whine.”
N.B.:
This will get worse until students and their advocates begin to push back hard, and maybe this is a sign it is beginning to happen. A recession might also be necessary to drive the point home. Jobless and resourceless in deep debt for a worthless degree will produce horror stories that might have some chance of penetrating the Cone of Indifference that surrounds politically indoctrinated young adults.
Meanwhile in the former Nueva España, the indigenous people are being forced to read, write, and speaky Espanish…..
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