My grandma Emma went to Flandreau Indian School, where she was beaten for speaking Anishinaabemowin, her first language. She wasn’t allowed to go home for years at a time. Before she left us, she would scream and cry while she slept, even in her 90s.

periodic reminder that Middlebury students' protest against Charles Murray speaking was about not wanting to give asymmetric speech power to a bad academic and conservative welfare recipient laundering race science, not because of some fear of conservatism writ large

CMcaitlinmoriah.bsky.socialSep 26, 2024 4:54pm

charles murray was about to give up on his career as a conservative writer and try publishing a thriller when plutocrats lifted him up with their grant money, oh my god

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nope! they’ll have to email me! but the mention of Martin Haspelmath makes me think that we should have said “native speaker” is also a poor comparative concept! There could be a nice paper applying his arguments against “word” to “nativeness”

also everyone should read Grammon & Babel in the same issue on Decentering the Colonial Native Speaker! muse.jhu.edu/article/937187

this paper originated from a Fall 2020 seminar, which was inspired by convos with Justin Craft & Carrie Ann Morgan; we’ve now published two papers & a blogpost, with much more already out and in progress that builds on the learning we all did together! very excited for this one to be out!

🤣 looks like someone didn’t read the paper! if you want, you can let them know that they can invite me to come present graphs on why it doesn’t work on “empirical” grounds!

😮 i didnt know until @rikker.bsky.social@adamcschembri.bsky.social for posting)! I’m not sure who of my co-authors are on BlueSky to tag them but Annie, Addie, Yourdanis, Justin, Alexis, and Sky are all champs!!

Jerry Seinfeld [doing standup on TV]: And why are all butlers named Jeeves, anyway? What’s the deal with that Me [sitting at home alone, muttering]: FIRST of all, RegInald Jeves was a VALET

the idea that racial biases somehow 'are creeping into' anything tech related ignores the entire history of racial biases built into just about anything tech related

JPjeffjarvis.bsky.socialSep 18, 2024 10:13pm

Black teenagers twice as likely to be falsely accused of using AI tools in homework www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

Black teenagers twice as likely to be falsely accused of using AI tools in homework

Racial biases are creeping into teachers' policing of generative AI tools among students, the study found.