"The English were infuriating. Everything was designed to put an outsider at a disadvantage. If you had to ask, you didn't belong."

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Because of the way our society is structures, using sentences such as "I don't it" can put people at a disadvantage. And this is, of course, why teachers have to give students access to Standard English, in order to protect them against this sort of prejudice.

— Kate Burridge