This whole “people I disagree with are stupid and look they talk funny” shit is dependent on the idea that the way the most privileged people in society speak and write is correct and all other ways of communicating are degenerate and wrong and indicative of a person’s intelligence (and thus their value).

Rabbit Lord of the Undead: i think i’m officially against picking on people’s grammar to make a political point

This is something I try to remember now, though I’ve definitely forgotten it in the past.

(via katoleary)

All the self-proclaimed “grammar nazis” I know (and I know quite a few) need to read this. I’ve actually been in an argument with someone who argued that people who use Ebonics are stupid for using “improper” English. Who decides what’s popular anyway?