The closest the argument that prescriptivism is fascism gets to being right is how prescriptivism is used against students who speak a vernacular English associated with a racial minority, equating not talking white with talking wrong.
I would say that’s more of a consequence or a symptom of prescriptivism being fascistic, in the sense that it self-reinforces the policing tendencies of language by engaging with another component of policing racial minorities…
The closest the argument that prescriptivism is fascism gets to being right is how prescriptivism is used against students who speak a vernacular English associated with a racial minority, equating not talking white with talking wrong.
I would say that’s more of a consequence or a symptom of prescriptivism being fascistic, in the sense that it self-reinforces the policing tendencies of language by engaging with another component of policing racial minorities…