• whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Spelling/grammar fixations are a way to be biased against people with less education, less experience with English… it’s obnoxious and rudely dismissive.

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      3 months ago

      Honestly kind of feel like crying seeing the comment section. I like the articles on Lemmy, but the attitude of the commenters is so mean. I don’t know how anyone decides that the best thing to do is to belittle someone for a typo, and how it’s so upvoted. That’s not praxis, it’s elitist and bullying someone when you don’t know if they have a disability, less access to education than you, maybe they’re just tired.

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        3 months ago

        Thanks you strangers ☺️. I didn’t have a good education growing up. I actually grew up in a cult. I managed to leave on my own when I was 16. Since I’ve gotten myself a degree but I’ve never really gotten spelling and grammar completely figured out. There are a lot of things I honestly just missed out on basic education wise.

        I always assume the people focus on that have no way of reasonably disagreeing with me. I guess they just get mad they’re wrong 🤷. Just a bunch of classist elitist assholes who couldn’t think their way out of a paper bag.