It’s unfortunate that Disney didn’t check the pronunciation before imprinting a entire cohort of 12-16 year old girls with a whole miniseries and a feature film’s worth of Ka-MAH-la Khan in the last two years. If only they’d known this election was coming!
Once one starts to notice just how one-sided the accusations of racism by the media are, one never stops seeing it. If you haven’t looked into the Dick Durbin-Miguel Estrada affair, I think it is patient zero for this sort of thing, and also the most egregious example. It’s the kind of thing where, had a Republican done it it would have been national news for months. And because a Democrat did it, You have almost certainly never even heard of it - even though it was an unprecedented happening that set the tone for confirmation battles for the next decade.
The people attacking Mace came across as petty and bullying. VP Harris's name was commonly pronounced the way Mace first pronounced it prior to the recent change in the presidential race. The hysterical focus on "micro aggressions" has eroded public sympathy for actual victims of discrimination. The ludicrous attacks on Mace have trivialized real issues that lead to real suffering.
I have an Anglo Saxon surname that people have ribbed me about, or been afraid to pronounce, throughout my life. It bothered me when my grade school teachers did it, but otherwise not. This kind of behavior is normal in children and in immature adults. I would prefer to have a surname that I don't have to spell for people every time I say it, but I don't care enough to actually change it.
If English speaking people don't recognize my surname, which may have existed in England since the Middle Ages, why would non-English speakers be able to pronounce it? Likewise, why should English speakers be able to pronounce names of people from non-English speaking countries? I think that if people immigrate to a country in which their name is not familiar or even pronounceable in the
language of their new home, and they choose to keep their foreign name with its foreign spelling, the
It’s unfortunate that Disney didn’t check the pronunciation before imprinting a entire cohort of 12-16 year old girls with a whole miniseries and a feature film’s worth of Ka-MAH-la Khan in the last two years. If only they’d known this election was coming!
Once one starts to notice just how one-sided the accusations of racism by the media are, one never stops seeing it. If you haven’t looked into the Dick Durbin-Miguel Estrada affair, I think it is patient zero for this sort of thing, and also the most egregious example. It’s the kind of thing where, had a Republican done it it would have been national news for months. And because a Democrat did it, You have almost certainly never even heard of it - even though it was an unprecedented happening that set the tone for confirmation battles for the next decade.
I will check it out!
The people attacking Mace came across as petty and bullying. VP Harris's name was commonly pronounced the way Mace first pronounced it prior to the recent change in the presidential race. The hysterical focus on "micro aggressions" has eroded public sympathy for actual victims of discrimination. The ludicrous attacks on Mace have trivialized real issues that lead to real suffering.
I have an Anglo Saxon surname that people have ribbed me about, or been afraid to pronounce, throughout my life. It bothered me when my grade school teachers did it, but otherwise not. This kind of behavior is normal in children and in immature adults. I would prefer to have a surname that I don't have to spell for people every time I say it, but I don't care enough to actually change it.
If English speaking people don't recognize my surname, which may have existed in England since the Middle Ages, why would non-English speakers be able to pronounce it? Likewise, why should English speakers be able to pronounce names of people from non-English speaking countries? I think that if people immigrate to a country in which their name is not familiar or even pronounceable in the
language of their new home, and they choose to keep their foreign name with its foreign spelling, the
problem is on them.
No!!!! That's not how the game is played. We are all victims all of the time.
Yes - loved this.