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[sister_red]

Arizona Ethnic Studies Classes Banned, Teachers With Accents Can No Longer Teach English

I cannot even begin to describe the rage/incredulity I'm feeling at the moment. What The Fucking Hell is going on here?????????????

I want to know what they consider to be a heavy or 'ungrammatical' accent to be. Fuck. I want to know what an 'ungrammatical' accent is in the first place. I know some straight up WASP Southerners with accents so thick you need a decoder ring to make out what they are saying. I know Hispanics with no accents whatsoever.

What will the yardstick for this rule be?

Their skin color??

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[xioley.livejournal.com]

With your last question 'paper bag' came into my head, and then it dawned on me more fully: Arizona has gone back to 1963 or something. WTF? Also, how many people who are Latinos in Arizona were born there--and had grandparents who were born there?!?! Arizona is quickly turning into a police state-for those who aren't Whitey McCrackerson.

[sisterred.livejournal.com]

The Whitey McCrackersons need to be reminded that the Aztec Empire had settled what is now the US Southwest long before European cultures got here. Again, some argument about Native Americans keeps popping into my mind for some reason...

Because technically, the Nahuan people were there first.

[sistersolace.livejournal.com]

what in the hell is WRONG with arizona? fuck all.

seriously, we ALL have "accents"... it's just a matter of what kind of accent. my best friend in elementary school was from scottsdale, and we loved to make fun of how she talked. it sounded so funny! say that word again! how do you say "roof"?!

ugh. just... ugh.