Wow. This is so unapologetically racist. Connecting racial equity to dropping standards is back in fashion, I see. #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race #LitPOC #AcademicTwitter #ClassicsTwitterhttps://twitter.com/JohnHMcWhorter/status/1401904807154159617 …
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This stance makes my blood boil, especially because it’s been robustly established that Latin and Greek are by and large taught in an exclusionary way. The “standard” is bad pedagogy because, as
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Which is such a wildly classist and willfully ignorant assumption. There are plenty of wonderfully talented pedagogues who teach Latin and Greek the way it should be—like a conversational language—but those people are by and large excluded from supposedly “elite” spaces.
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. Taking the idea of opening up the field to mean that it is a racist assumption that Black students can’t learn these languages is quite something.