Casting out individual racists does not make an organization free from racism.

Racism is often what structures the entire organization.

When language is thought to be a 'skill' that anyone can acquire with hard work, this will always justify linguistic discrimination.

(Because certain people never tried 'hard enough').

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Western universities will say, 'We want our students to be global citizens.'

Western universities will also say, 'We do not want our students to support Palestine.'

'The very existence of any immigration policy is to exclude.'

(Abu-Laban, 2024, p. 1808)

The issue is not whether people actually use a 'standard language' in everyday communication.

The issue concerns how a standard language is used to stigmatize and police the language practices of minoritized communities.

New article by Dr. Tasha Austin and me detailing the history of harm against Afrodescendants in US world languages and calling for Black Linguistic Reparations through redistribution, repair, re-creation.

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Paul Graham's absurd claim that using words like 'delve' indicate ChatGPT reveals his assumption that everyone shares his linguistic limitations. Like US and UK professors who punish Africans for using English their limited knowledge tells them such students can't possibly know.

Race and class always play a role in determining who gets to be called an expat or migrant.

One example of linguistic imperialism in English language teaching is the idea that 'American' and 'British' are the only acceptable variations of English pronunciation in the world.

You do not need to do a performative land acknowledgment if you are going to ignore people who are currently being killed on and displaced from their homelands.

'Accentlessness' would require 'languagelessness,' both of which are nonexistent.

Neoliberal anti-racism is like, 'Find a Black friend to educate you about racism.'

Critical anti-racism would instead say, 'Examine the structural reasons why you have no Black friends in the first place.'

It is not the responsibility of the oppressed to prove their humanity to the oppressor.

I finally got my copy of 'Language Teacher Identity,' which came out a couple of months ago:

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I have a chapter exploring how raciolinguistic enregisterment interacts with the demand for aesthetic labour in ELT.

When it comes to white supremacy and the workplace, we need to better recognize how work actually reproduces white supremacy in various forms.

'You have unintelligible pronunciation' is not only a rude statement, but also a statement typically based on racist, classist, and ableist ideologies.

western civilization: not very civilized
western democracy: not very democratic
western media: not actually objective

These have all failed to live up to their purported standards when it comes to matters like genocide.

When you realize that racialization goes beyond the use of skin colour, it is much easier to recognize the pervasiveness of racism.