#833

thisiswhiteprivilege:

White privilege is criticizing Hispanic students for taking Spanish classes “because it’s an easy A” but praising white students for taking English classes “because they want to learn more about their language”.

Bonus white privilege points if the Spanish taught in the class is actually European Spanish.

(via elysethegorgon)

  1. haleybeast reblogged this from obamas-dick and added:
    I see what you’re saying. I was mostly confused because a Spanish class in my school system was a language course, while...
  2. obamas-dick reblogged this from haleybeast and added:
    In some schools, it’s actually mandatory to take Spanish courses (Many schools in Texas force their students to take...
  3. homo-hime reblogged this from schad3nfreude and added:
    ^
  4. schad3nfreude reblogged this from accioalife and added:
    Agreed completely with mirrorbluenights.
  5. madame-scary-von-spooky-britches reblogged this from super1eklectic
  6. virginmaria reblogged this from dypsomaniacc
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  9. spokanesammirose reblogged this from accioalife
  10. accioalife reblogged this from hogwartskeyhole and added:
    Actually is White Privilege to say Hispanic students taking Spanish is an easy A because you’re assuming Hispanic...
  11. hogwartskeyhole reblogged this from socialcuntstruction and added:
    ^^^^^^This. If an English speaker was taking ESL, they’d get the same crap.
  12. glowruiz reblogged this from tsarbucks and added:
    “because I’ve been raised speaking pretty good Spanish.” Are you saying that Latin American Spanish is the “bad”...
  13. igniteyourcertainty reblogged this from hisbestmemories
  14. theotakusupreme reblogged this from averagesparrow
  15. socialcuntstruction reblogged this from psychedelicfeminist and added:
    …Except they don’t actually teach you how to speak English in English class and for the majority of American students...
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  18. jakeyjay reblogged this from kcalron and added:
    Am I wrong or isn’t the point of a Spanish class to teach Spanish as a language, whereas an English class is usually...
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