{"id":620,"date":"2022-04-07T03:16:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T03:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/?p=620"},"modified":"2022-04-08T21:56:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T21:56:30","slug":"blog-post-9-saddling-wild-tongues-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/04\/07\/blog-post-9-saddling-wild-tongues-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 9: Saddling Wild Tongues"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The term \u201ctame\u201d, in and of itself, is heavily associated with animality. Taming of an animal (like a horse, for example) usually involves violence or abuse in some form. It also involves making the animal dependent on the tamer for survival. When we try to apply this concept to humans in the way that Anzald\u00f9a suggests, it becomes clear that there are already societal structures in place that aim to \u201ctame\u201d in this sense. A \u201cwild tongue\u201d and, by extension, a \u201cwild\u201d person is tamed through the systemic oppression and marginalization of all folks deemed \u201cwild\u201d, \u201cinferior\u201d, or \u201csavage.\u201d American schools are enforcing a sort of systemic oppression when they exclusively teach in English and punish students for speaking other languages. They are using their access and authority to attempt to tame the \u201cwild\u201d tongue of the students through systemic. In a more literal sense, Africans who were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade were immediately labeled \u201csavage\u201d by foreign colonizers. The colonizers then attempted to \u201ctame\u201d and exploit them through all kinds of abuse. This grotesque, deplorable, and truly evil \u201ctaming\u201d included whipping and branding practices that were also commonly used to \u201ctame\u201d livestock, in addition to sexual violence and language deprivation. <\/span><\/p>

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