Affirmative Action Quotas No Longer in Doubt After decades of "whitespeak" (Anglo-centric linguistics), the Scripps National Spelling Bee was forced by a federal judge last month to source 50% of its competition words from Urban Dictionary, a user-generated online dictionary that is considered a modern, multicultural reference for language. The ACLU lawsuit is one of many … [Read more...]
Urban Dictionary Takes Center Stage at Scripps National Spelling Bee, Court-Ordered Affirmative Action a Success
Even affirmative action skeptics were impressed by the profound effect of the court-mandated Urban Dictionary spelling bee quotas.