Great, now the Hindus are going to call us racists
A linguistics and education professor from Michigan State University claims that telling somebody that you can’t understand him is an example of “linguistic racism.”
More specifically, it’s “racist” to ask a person to repeat what he said because you “don’t understand [his] thick accent.”
My experience, based in the UK. I've lost count of the no. of times I've had to hang up on a telephone conversation with an organization/call centre because of the (usually) Asian accent at the other end of the phone. I've actually started recording calls now, starting with the usual "calls are recorded for monitoring and quality assurance" BS, so that I've got evidence to present to the UK office I started to deal with (until they have my company's money of course) at which time helpdesk calls are strangely transferred to India, or even worse Pakistan. I now start my first conversation with new companies, on the record, with a request for information on where their call centres are based. This is not racism, it is saving my valuable time from being wasted on a "service" which I cannot understand and do not want.
Funny, I used to work with an Indian guy on a few jobs in Asia. One day he confessed that for the first two weeks we worked together he couldn’t understand me. I’m Mixed midwestern accent wise. Imagine if I had decided to use my southern voice!!
I've known for some time I need a internet connected translator to enable me to say "Get Fucked You Smelly, Foreign Asshole" in 144 different languages. This story affirms it.
As usual, the elite geniuses that dream up this bullshit have no consideration for those that don't understand them because they are hard-of-hearing. Or maybe he's just a Dindu-Hindu. CC
So, for example, you should accept that you "heard" him ask you to pour hot coffee all over his lap ? I mean, I certainly don't want to be racist by asking him to repeat the question.
Back in college, some of the professors could not be understood. Turned out, the ONLY time they spoke English was when teaching class...outside of class, at home, etc., always speaking their native language, even with other professors. Guess we were all racist for not being able to understand them, and the administration was racist for emphasizing to them that they needed to clean up their accents so paying students could actually learn? Sort of makes me wonder if that's his situation...
Bingo. After my last degree I took a smattering of courses just to keep 'trained' in the eyes of unenlightened bosses. Took some kind of programming/software class and dropped out after a few weeks because I couldn't understand a damned thing the Red Dot indian had to say. The was the last class I ever took and added an "A" onto my transcript along with the class number/name so I could get tuition reimbursement-even if the dumb fucques in HR had looked at the forgery they would have never figured it out. The company I worked for then was full of Little Hitler bosses and got everything they deserved when an employee screwed them back.
I have horrible tinnitus. I can understand you if I’m looking at you. If you have an accent, it’s very hard for me. If you’re behind those stupid ass masks, even without an accent, I probably can’t understand you.
So get over yourself Iqbal, or Hassim or whatever alphabet soup concoction you call yourself. It’s not all about you.
Oh my, THANK YOU. Yep, my Dutch accent still can cause me problems after 40 years. THANK YOU! I am now a minority, I am now a victim. How much will I get each month?
"In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."
Okay.... Enough is enough. This is an extension of "I have an allergy / health issue / life issue and everyone else has to change to accommodate me and I don't have to take responsibility for my life"
You were hired to help customers, not the other way around. If a customer cannot understand you because you've got mush mouth then learn to enunciate better. Otherwise you are useless.
Now? What are you meaning, "now", you deplorable Englishman, you? I am not liking what you have to say. Not one bit am I liking it. IOW, they've been calling you racist for years.
As for this (Associate) professor, Peter de Costa, he appears to be the typical sort of academic that gives academics a bad name.
God I hope my Colombian born and raised wife doesn't read this. Cause there ain't a day that goes by where I ask her, WTF was that you said? Based on this libtards assessment, I'm the biggest racist in the world. And I married a foreign woman. Go figure.
Well, see...that's cultural appropriation and imperialism right there. Plus, if you're white, it's racist to date/marry other whites, and it's really racist to date/marry non-whites. Ain't modern culture just so enlightened?
I usually use the Buk-Lau soundboard to fuck with the telemarketers (look it up and have fun), but if I don't have time to play with them,I just tell them I don't speak derka-derka, so have someone who speaks english give me a call and hang up on them (after calling them a benchode).
Repeat back to them as a question. ALTERNATELY MAKING CRUDE JOKES, RACIST AND HOMOPHOBIC SLURS, FAMILY ORIGIN OR BS. REPEAT TILL THEY HANG UP. BUT GET THEIR NAME ( MISHEARD AND TURNED DIRTY) CALL BACK AND DEMAND THEIR SUPERVISOR. THIS HAS WORKED FOR ME FOR DECADES. Caps on as if I'm screaming into the hone.
they hate it when i say, ' hello, my leetle brown friend'. usually get 'fuck you' after that. i tell them i already know those words in english, can you teach me them in hindoostanese?' one time i had 3 tellemarketers swearing at me in english and hindoo. i kept telling them to slow down, i cant understand if you talk fast. was quite the entertaining 1/2 hour, untill i hung up.
There's only 2 things I hate - racists and Indians ☺ I had to deal with an Indian manufacturer in my last job. Couldn't understand the prick at all.. He was the most useless, lying, deceitful, bad quality goods producing bastard you could imagine. He made the chinese look good. I ended up quitting to get away from it all.
I wonder when white people will actually band together and kick these shitholians out of our country that out forefathers built...That is the 64 dollar question which my answer is probably not until a lot of innocent blood has been spilled by said shitholians...
You sure he's Hindu with a name like Peter De Costa?
Regardless the fucker's name, he is a perfect example of the now worthless practice of "Publish or Perish" in academia. A good percentage of the shit that is published would never pass muster back when colleges and universities were serious endeavors. Now it is about like all the kids getting participation trophies-even the kid who couldn't even swing the bat.
First, MSU is basically a large, four year community college. I went there. I graduated from there. It's a good ag school, nothing more. Secondly, let's just have two Americas. Liberal, butt-hurt uhmerika, and conservative, God fearing America. No mixing.
I'm glad that when I was a young white boy I didn't complain to my co-worker, an Alabama white boy, about not understanding his thick Alabama accent. I'd be persecuted for racism.
Now that I'm old, I watch TV with the captioning on because I can't understand half the dialog. So is that racist, too?
LOL - so what are we supposed to do if we can't understand??
ReplyDeleteJust call back, hope you get someone you can understand?
This is so stupid - illogical and unhelpful "advise" (which sums up the liberal platform)
So instead, do what you want and defend it with "that's what you told me to do."
ReplyDeleteMy experience, based in the UK. I've lost count of the no. of times I've had to hang up on a telephone conversation with an organization/call centre because of the (usually) Asian accent at the other end of the phone. I've actually started recording calls now, starting with the usual "calls are recorded for monitoring and quality assurance" BS, so that I've got evidence to present to the UK office I started to deal with (until they have my company's money of course) at which time helpdesk calls are strangely transferred to India, or even worse Pakistan. I now start my first conversation with new companies, on the record, with a request for information on where their call centres are based. This is not racism, it is saving my valuable time from being wasted on a "service" which I cannot understand and do not want.
ReplyDeleteFunny, I used to work with an Indian guy on a few jobs in Asia. One day he confessed that for the first two weeks we worked together he couldn’t understand me. I’m Mixed midwestern accent wise. Imagine if I had decided to use my southern voice!!
ReplyDeleteHahahahaha.
ReplyDeleteOf course
I've known for some time I need a internet connected translator to enable me to say "Get Fucked You Smelly, Foreign Asshole" in 144 different languages. This story affirms it.
ReplyDeleteAs usual, the elite geniuses that dream up this bullshit have no consideration for those that don't understand them because they are hard-of-hearing.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe he's just a Dindu-Hindu.
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This mask mandate has sure played hob with deaf-ass me.
DeleteRickn8or, no shit!
DeleteI can barely hear *without* someone wearing a mask - with a mask they sound like Charlie Brown’s teacher.
You and me both brother.
DeleteSo, for example, you should accept that you "heard" him ask you to pour hot coffee all over his lap ?
ReplyDeleteI mean, I certainly don't want to be racist by asking him to repeat the question.
I am not going to ever care if I am called a racist. Everyone is one, if they are honest.
ReplyDeleteBullshit. I hate everybody equally.
DeleteBack in college, some of the professors could not be understood. Turned out, the ONLY time they spoke English was when teaching class...outside of class, at home, etc., always speaking their native language, even with other professors. Guess we were all racist for not being able to understand them, and the administration was racist for emphasizing to them that they needed to clean up their accents so paying students could actually learn? Sort of makes me wonder if that's his situation...
ReplyDeleteBingo. After my last degree I took a smattering of courses just to keep 'trained' in the eyes of unenlightened bosses. Took some kind of programming/software class and dropped out after a few weeks because I couldn't understand a damned thing the Red Dot indian had to say. The was the last class I ever took and added an "A" onto my transcript along with the class number/name so I could get tuition reimbursement-even if the dumb fucques in HR had looked at the forgery they would have never figured it out. The company I worked for then was full of Little Hitler bosses and got everything they deserved when an employee screwed them back.
DeletePhuq ‘em.
ReplyDeleteI have horrible tinnitus. I can understand you if I’m looking at you. If you have an accent, it’s very hard for me. If you’re behind those stupid ass masks, even without an accent, I probably can’t understand you.
So get over yourself Iqbal, or Hassim or whatever alphabet soup concoction you call yourself. It’s not all about you.
Hear, hear.
DeleteOh my, THANK YOU.
ReplyDeleteYep, my Dutch accent still can cause me problems after 40 years.
THANK YOU!
I am now a minority, I am now a victim.
How much will I get each month?
Wait till the PUS-Elect takes office.
ReplyDelete"In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."
Does Delaware have attractive 9 year old girls? Asking for Hunter.
DeleteOkay.... Enough is enough. This is an extension of "I have an allergy / health issue / life issue and everyone else has to change to accommodate me and I don't have to take responsibility for my life"
ReplyDeleteYou were hired to help customers, not the other way around. If a customer cannot understand you because you've got mush mouth then learn to enunciate better. Otherwise you are useless.
DeleteNo, the big boss hired them cuz they are cheaper 'n shit.
DeleteNow? What are you meaning, "now", you deplorable Englishman, you? I am not liking what you have to say. Not one bit am I liking it.
ReplyDeleteIOW, they've been calling you racist for years.
As for this (Associate) professor, Peter de Costa, he appears to be the typical sort of academic that gives academics a bad name.
Uh, do you mean 90% of academics give the other 8% a bad rep? (dyswidt?)
DeleteGod I hope my Colombian born and raised wife doesn't read this. Cause there ain't a day that goes by where I ask her, WTF was that you said? Based on this libtards assessment, I'm the biggest racist in the world. And I married a foreign woman. Go figure.
ReplyDelete"And I married a foreign woman."
DeleteWell, see...that's cultural appropriation and imperialism right there. Plus, if you're white, it's racist to date/marry other whites, and it's really racist to date/marry non-whites. Ain't modern culture just so enlightened?
And she probably gives you hell every day. Whether you can understand her or not.
DeleteI usually use the Buk-Lau soundboard to fuck with the telemarketers (look it up and have fun), but if I don't have time to play with them,I just tell them I don't speak derka-derka, so have someone who speaks english give me a call and hang up on them (after calling them a benchode).
ReplyDeleteRepeat back to them as a question. ALTERNATELY MAKING CRUDE JOKES, RACIST AND HOMOPHOBIC SLURS, FAMILY ORIGIN OR BS. REPEAT TILL THEY HANG UP. BUT GET THEIR NAME ( MISHEARD AND TURNED DIRTY) CALL BACK AND DEMAND THEIR SUPERVISOR. THIS HAS WORKED FOR ME FOR DECADES. Caps on as if I'm screaming into the hone.
ReplyDeletethey hate it when i say, ' hello, my leetle brown friend'. usually get 'fuck you' after that.
ReplyDeletei tell them i already know those words in english, can you teach me them in hindoostanese?'
one time i had 3 tellemarketers swearing at me in english and hindoo. i kept telling them to slow down, i cant understand if you talk fast.
was quite the entertaining 1/2 hour, untill i hung up.
Bwahahahahaha.
DeleteBless his heart.
ReplyDeleteThere's only 2 things I hate - racists and Indians ☺
ReplyDeleteI had to deal with an Indian manufacturer in my last job. Couldn't understand the prick at all..
He was the most useless, lying, deceitful, bad quality goods producing bastard you could imagine. He made the chinese look good. I ended up quitting to get away from it all.
I wonder when white people will actually band together and kick these shitholians out of our country that out forefathers built...That is the 64 dollar question which my answer is probably not until a lot of innocent blood has been spilled by said shitholians...
ReplyDelete"Shitholians"-damn, I love it!!!!!!
DeleteLarge wager on "Never," please. No one will do it because people want to be seen as being "nice".
DeleteYou sure he's Hindu with a name like Peter De Costa?
ReplyDeleteRegardless the fucker's name, he is a perfect example of the now worthless practice of "Publish or Perish" in academia. A good percentage of the shit that is published would never pass muster back when colleges and universities were serious endeavors. Now it is about like all the kids getting participation trophies-even the kid who couldn't even swing the bat.
First, MSU is basically a large, four year community college. I went there. I graduated from there. It's a good ag school, nothing more.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, let's just have two Americas. Liberal, butt-hurt uhmerika, and conservative, God fearing America. No mixing.
I'm glad that when I was a young white boy I didn't complain to my co-worker, an Alabama white boy, about not understanding his thick Alabama accent. I'd be persecuted for racism.
ReplyDeleteNow that I'm old, I watch TV with the captioning on because I can't understand half the dialog. So is that racist, too?
When the large majority of criminal scumbags aren't some shade of brown, I guess I'll quit being a racist.
ReplyDeleteI'll never apologize for speaking truth.
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