> This is a failure to demonstrate how promoting language standards may result in increased discrimination.
It does that right now, no "may" about it.
> Again, whether a language standard is promoted or not, people will discriminate against others who differ from them.
"Promoted" is a too nice a word when the reality is that the standard is used limit the opportunities of people who don't follow the standard.
> You are suggesting we pretend that a standard form of English does not exist
It doesn't exist. There is no single standard English, there isn't even a standard set of spellings for English.
> Judging people as stupid comes from differences in people, not language standards.
I've literally had people tell that they assume someone is stupider if they use the "me" instead of "I" in an "and" clause.
> Whoever is the appropriate authority of the language. It could be a national government or an academic organization. Language standardization isn’t a new concept, nearly all European languages have gone through a standardization phase.
There is no such authority for English, so there is no standard?
Also, "standardisation" didn't work for German or Spanish (the other two European languages I speak) as local dialects diverge significantly from the "official standard". It is far from "solved".
> This is the equivalent of saying we can’t standardize Python because there is no obvious way to decide who is allowed to standardize it.
That isn't what I said at all.
> In the absence of the existence of a “correct English” the judgements would transition from “you are not speaking correct English” (which is shared by all) to “you are not speaking my tribe’s English” (which is unique to a single tribe and would be a lot more tribally divisive).
Those judgements already happen. Teaching people about each other's dialects would make them less foriegn and lead to less judgement and better understanding.
When you take that position that there is "one correct English", that makes it harder to encourage people to learn each other's dialects and it encourages discrimination against people whose dialects differ more from the one correct English.
Finally, I'll repeat myself: I am not wholey opposed to language standards on principle. A good language standard would be determined inclusive organization that is representative of all its speakers, would be a living standard that changes as the underlying language and it's dialects change (i.e
descriptive), and would understood as common reference point for communication rather than as the one correct way of using that language ( i.e. not proscriptive).
English does not have such a such a standard and other language standards I am aware of are not super effective and tend to be rather eurocentric and not inclusive of their broader populations.