"Fuck off!" Why the language police deserve Anglo-Saxon English
You don't change the world by changing language
One of the aims of progressives in higher education ought to be to use their privileged position to spread knowledge to their fellow citizens. In the all but forgotten world of the original socialist movement, radicals aimed in the words of the Workers Educational Association (founded 1903) to bring “education within reach of everyone who needs it”.
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