and, if you want to be super pedantic then it's true, there's no such thing as "correct grammar" descriptivist linguistics, language evolves over time, yadda yadda yadda buthttps://twitter.com/BostonDelendEst/status/1409305113286561796 …
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there is definitely such a thing as an acrolect/basilect cline "correct grammar" is the colloquialism we use for speaking acrolect (among other things) and teaching someone to be fluent in acrolect is an amazing benefit to them -- advances their social/job prospects greatly
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so, the schools, in teaching everyone acrolect under the heading "correct grammar", have done everyone great charity most particularly, those whose class background means they wouldn't naturally learn it at home it's one of the better egalitarian benefits we have
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but of course some woker-than-thou ed-school idiot with too much time on her hands has decided it's "racist", so it has to go sorry, all those poor kids and black kids and kids who don't speak English at home you get screwed over so that Karen can feel better about herself
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But you're treating the acrolect like a fact of nature! Dr. Karen is—correctly!—pointing out that the standard-ness of standard English is downstream of power relations ... while missing that helping kids within the extant power structure is easier than immanatizing the eschaton.
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Signalling is just as real as the atomic number of cobalt. One arises out of the basic physical laws, the other out of the laws of game theory.
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