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AtomicKitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 02:29 PM Original message |
AZ bans ethnic studies classes and teachers with accents can no longer teach English. |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
1. Whoa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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DrDan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
2. what is an "ungrammatical" accent? |
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Richard D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 02:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. I don't really know . . . |
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miscsoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 03:08 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. there's no such thing, they mean dialect |
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DrDan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 04:02 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. that was my first thought . . . dialect with a goal of targeting specific races . . . |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 03:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
11. Sound doesn't have an essential grammar. |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 04:26 PM Response to Reply #2 |
17. Whatever it is, the phrase is syntactically false. |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
3. I guess it is time to get some kind of patch to put on the people who can no longer |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
4. Bostonians and Londoners need not apply. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 02:49 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Laura Flanders said she has to avoid Arizona because she has an accent. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 02:57 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Well, she better avoid getting a tan... |
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miscsoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
8. that prohibition on promoting resentment of "particular classes of people" seems damned fishy to me |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
9. At least that rules out Sarah Palin. n/t |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 03:13 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. screechy voices that sound like fingernails on a blackboard also banned? |
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DeschutesRiver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
13. And yet I saw a thread asking people not to boycott Arizona |
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AtomicKitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 04:32 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. I have a lot of family in Arizona. |
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DeschutesRiver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 05:58 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Oh no, that is such a bad position to be in |
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Maat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 10:33 AM Response to Reply #18 |
26. I'm sort of in the same spot, only not with Arizona. |
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Xicano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
14. In Other Words Arizona Only Wants To Teach About White Culture And Ignore All Other Cultures? |
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AsahinaKimi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
16. Arizona just pushed themselves back into the 1800's with this bill... |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 05:59 PM Response to Original message |
20. OMG |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 12:50 AM Response to Original message |
21. I agree whole heartedly.. |
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MajorChode (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 12:54 AM Response to Original message |
22. They are just setting themselves up for a class action EEO lawsuit |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 01:14 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. That is what they're doing -- trying to roll back the Civil Rights Movement. n/t |
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MajorChode (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 01:35 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. I think they are just pandering to their bigotted constituency |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-01-10 12:57 AM Response to Original message |
23. Arizona appears to have sprung a sizable "stupid leak" |
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