Stossel Confronts a Professor

ASU Professor Asao Inoue says grading students on standard English is racist.

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"If you use a single standard to grade your students’ languaging, you engage in racism,” says Asao Inoue, a prominent Professor of Rhetoric.

Academics believe him. Education journals publish his ideas.

U.S. News credits him for professors ditching traditional grading.
Inoue calls himself a “Marxian.” Few such professors will talk to me. Here is a rare debate about what’s actually being taught in college classrooms.

[ASnakeintheGrass]

1. Pick a subject
2. Call it racist
3. Profit

[coke]

This just proves that just because you’re a professor, doesn’t mean you’re the brightest

[stevemarsh]

This is how you lose America one piece at a time. This guy needs to be pushed back at every turn.

[mrblank-zhxy]

What a coward. Applause to Stossel for tolerating this filth.

[SoloRenegade]

this guy is a professional victim, and teaches everyone they are a victim of something.

[MusicalMemeology]

This guy is everything that’s wrong with academia.

[Xeverous]

He was behaving significantly less extreme in your interview, John. A proof that he knows he can't stand by his ideas outside his own circle.

[caw]

The VERY same professor who opposes standardized English, speaks standardized English.

[watchdealer]

Mr. Stossel is a man of pure integrity and class, unlike this joke of a professor.

[aperson_]

I'm a college English teacher and I am horrified by these ideas. It's not compassionate to hold students to such low expectations. It only limits their future opportunities.

[baguba]

The worst part is is that people like this are actively hurting the people they say they want to protect.

[merribithiah]

If people don’t know standard English people will CHOOSE to see those people as uneducated.

[videomonster]

"Standardized English" is just proper English...

[caster]

Just how the hell did we get to this point in our country? How are people like him teaching at higher level education and getting credit by news outlets?

[MissNunya]

This man is an example of how a lack of ability to observe reality is rewarded. It's easier to control people who are stupid.

[phillipschuster]

Shame on you ! You just exposed what has caused such MASSIVE failures in our universities. THANK YOU !

[dolemite]

What’s scary is that this guy is teaching our youth. What’s absolutely terrifying is that he gave this talk at “the largest teacher conference of the year” and wasn’t booed off the stage…

[kellyem]

How ridiculous! My parents came here from Mexico. Not only did they make me learn English but also Spanish, Italian and French so that I could communicate effectively.

[oldskipper]

This guy is why the current generation will be remembered as the least educated generation.

[swiswach]

Love that John Stossel; yet another great video