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Re: Ebonics
>You're confusing issues. As with similar confusions about "right to work"
>(where the putative conflict is between Alice's right to hire whom she
>chooses and Bob's putative "right to a job"), the confusion lies in what
>one calls a right.
I assume you are talking about right-to-work labor laws, in which case, it
does not refer to the above. It has to do with union-membership (which you
more than likely similarly disagree with...)
I agree that there is rampant abuse of the word/idea of "rights" in this
country and around the world. I similarly think that many political
disagreements can be boiled down to this problem.
>And just where did anyone in any of these posts call for outlawing any
>particular language, pidgin, slang, creole, jive, or invented lingo?
I was actually joking, Tim. My original response was sent before I knew of
the Oakland initiative. I do not hail from California, the land of
Proposition XXX, and find some of them silly.
You do advocate the unemployment of people who do utilize such a
dialect/language. And I do fear that many people subscribe to your line of
thinking. So I do respond to some of your posts earlier than I sometimes
should to present a different point of view.
>Really, Matt, go back to Rhetoric 101 and learn how to argue.
That's a good argument. Do they teach that ad hominem stuff in that class?
;-)
Matt