STOP THE PLANET PLEASE, I WANT OFF NOW.
Arizona State University Associate Dean Asao Inoue is openly arguing that grading students' writing on quality and accuracy is racist. Not like, "a microaggression" or something -- no no, it's straight up racist.
Instead of grading based on accuracy and quality, Asao argues, grades should be based on "effort."
Oh, and he believes it so strongly that he's not just saying it to people -- he's written a 358-page book about it.
This thing is about grading papers and the words "equity," "inclusion," and "compassionate," are shoehorned into the title, so you just know it's a dandy.
"This book focuses on one kind of grading contract, one that calculates final course grades purely by the labor students complete, not by any judgments of the quality of their writing," Inoue writes.
The uber-woke author claims that "ranking" anything is inherently racist. And, thus, grading is racist.
"Ranking is a part of a much longer racist, and White supremacist, tradition in Western intellectual history," Inoue writes. "Ranking has been deeply embedded in racist thinking, discourses, and logics, mainly because it has been deployed as a way to justify a number of racist, empirical, and colonial projects over the last four hundred years."
"Grading literacy performances by a single standard for so-called quality is racist and promotes white language supremacy. Because all grading and assessment exist within systems that uphold singular, dominant standards that are racist, and White supremacist when used uniformly. This problem is present in any grading system that incorporates a standard, no matter who is judging, no matter the particulars of the standard."
According to the book, grading allegedly perpetuates "white language supremacy" in schools. Nearly every U.S. school requires children to speak and write in proper English during English and literacy classes. According to the author, holding students to that standard is racist.
"The traditional purposes and methods used for grading writing turn out to be de facto racist and White supremacist," Inoue writes. "Grading by a standard, thus, is how White language supremacy is perpetuated in schools."
Go read the rest from the Daily Wire because my puke bucket is almost full. 🤢
