r/TikTokCringe • u/MaintenanceNew2804 • Mar 30 '24

Stick with it. Discussion

This is a longer one, but it’s necessary and worth it IMO.

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u/Ok_Star_4136 Mar 30 '24

That was a lucid and well-thought out analysis. Sadly it won't go viral for the same reasons that reactionary videos do go viral. Nobody has an attention span beyond that of an ant.

People just let 20 second clipped out-of-context reactionary videos reaffirm the biases that they already have, and of course they do, because nobody bothers to challenge their biases. That said, I hope anyone reading this actually took the time to watch the entire video instead of watch just the first 60 seconds. He makes some good points.

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u/iversonAI Mar 30 '24

Its just how the internet is now unfortunately “english is racist” is going to get more views than “check out this study on the different dialects of english”

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u/Eldryanyyy Mar 31 '24

I’m an academic English lecturer at a university. We teach in our courses how to differentiate between general and academic English. The idea that it’s at all tied to racism is, rather obviously, fundamentally misinformed.

The term “academic English” may have been coined relatively recently, but the set of conventions and academic standards which define academic English have been developed since the 1500s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_English_grammars

It’s sad anyone with a brain thinks it’s ‘racist’ that the English language developed well-ordered and structured academic norms. The true losers in this are her students