{"id":2032,"date":"2022-05-18T16:32:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T16:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/05\/18\/hey-wokester\/"},"modified":"2022-05-18T16:32:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T16:32:59","slug":"hey-wokester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/05\/18\/hey-wokester\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Wokester!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You won't teach your students grammar, but you will 'teach' them the 'right' pronouns?<\/span><\/p>\n

…………………………….<\/span><\/p>\n

J. E. comments:<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
Having fled to a tavern following the presentation at an academic <\/span>conference of a paper on modal verbs, I found your recent remark about <\/span>the woke approach to grammar and language indicative of my broad <\/span>experience as an English teacher. I would point out only one thing: when <\/span>you say the wokester won't teach his\/her\/xe students grammar, a reader <\/span>might presume you are attributing to the wokester the ability to teach <\/span>grammar but the willful refusal to do so. Not so. Most that I have <\/span>encountered could not distinguish a participle from a particle, though <\/span>whether cause or consequence of their enwokened state I can never tell. <\/span>Thanks for your time in reading this missive.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And thank you for your well-written response.  I fear that you are right. But at least the wokester knows what a pronoun is. What hasn't dawned on him, however, is that his exiguous knowledge of grammar makes him partially racist since we all now know that grammar is racist and for the same reason that mathematics is.<\/span><\/p>\n

I will add that grammar is propadeutic to logic, or, as I heard a German say, Grammatik ist logische Vorschule<\/em>. But we all now know how utterly racist logic is, precisely because of its having been secreted by the brains of  dead old white racists.  Please forgive the pleonastic expression, 'white racist.' <\/span><\/p>\n

And if my employment of a German sentence isn't racist enough, here<\/a> is a racist gloss on the foregoing:<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

"Propaedeutic" is from Greek paideuein,<\/em> meaning "to teach," plus "pro-," which means "before." "Paideia" and "paideuein" both spring from the root "paid-," which means "child."<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But you don't know that word, do you? You probably attended 'schools' run by leftists. Would it be an exaggeration to say that leftists specialize in the erasure<\/em> of history and the erosion<\/em> of standards? How much of an exaggeration?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You won't teach your students grammar, but you will 'teach' them the 'right' pronouns? ……………………………. J. E. comments: Having fled to a tavern following the presentation at an academic conference of a paper on modal verbs, I found your recent remark about the woke approach to grammar and language indicative of my broad experience as … Continue reading “Hey Wokester!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}