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"And why shouldn't people seeking higher status jobs or education be expected to present and conduct themselves accordingly?"

Because accent has nothing to doing with "conducting oneself accordingly". Why is the onus on the victim of discrimination to align with your bogus, outdated way of thinking?

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> Why is the onus on the victim of discrimination to align with your bogus, outdated way of thinking?

Everyone seems to understand what standard American spoken English sound like. If not, we would not have a concept of accents at all.

Perhaps one day all accents will be treated equally, but it won’t be this century. You can rage against the machine, but it will only hurt yourself.

The world doesn’t change at the pace people seem to want it to.

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