Without the censorship
Fuck yeah!
Why are burgerlanders so offended/afraid of people not speaking the only language they know?
It’s racism.
Its racism, when people message me online and I am not 100% who it is or if it is weird, I response in my second language. If the person knows me, they respond in English and we have no problem. Scammers never reply to that language. But American’s get racist everytime because it looks close enough to Spanish. They are straight out of the idiot handbook; “Speak American”, “Me only habla American”, and sometimes it comes with slurs. Like fuck me for speaking a romance language.
Poor emotional regulation.
Someone speaking another language makes them afraid (maybe they’re talking about me) or feel bad (I only know one language am I stupid?). Getting angry at the other person is easier on the ego than healthier options.
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Never assume that just because somebody is a member of a minority they’re not prejudiced assholes.
It’s exactly because we’re all humans that assholes are equally distributed across all groups defined by things other than behavior and political beliefs - no such group is inherently composed of better or worse individuals than other groups.
People in groups being oppressed are less likely to behave as assholes simply because the assholes in those groups fear reprisals far more than the assholes in the dominant groups and in my experience plenty of people who behave meekly because of being part of an oppressed group will start behaving as assholes if given power and immunity to reprisals.
This is how you end up with phenomenons like, for example, anti-Transsexual Feminists.
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For avoidance of doubt my point is in no way a criticism of mankind:
- A % are always assholes.
- Also a % are always genuinely good people.
- The bulk of people are in the middle and kinda go with the cultural zeitgeist.
As far as I can tell, there are no more of the first kind than the second, though it’s my impression that the third kind, in the middle, are at times in average more pro-social or more anti-social depending on the predominant culture of a place and time.
In the current Greed Is Good environment dominant in the West I would say that the bulk of people who aren’t internally driven towards being a good person or being a selfish asshole tend toward “What’s in it for me” anti-social behavior if only because that attracts more rewards and less social pushback, though as I said and in my experience of living in a couple of countries, local culture also has a big say in that.
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For an unremarkable and mediocre person, english might be the only skill they have which allows them to feel superior to others. They’re pretty desperate to make everyone else aware of that at every opportunity.
They assume you’re talking about them
Lol this is true story. I knew a guy that was angry his roommate spoke Spanish to his grandma. Said I know he’s talking about me. Dumbest guy ever.
USA has always been a racist empire. Literally genociding children.
Zero surprise when YTs act like this.
Racism is definitely one reason, but you have to also put into perspective how big the united states is and what it’s like to be around almost exclusively people speaking your language.
A quick Google (I’m not verifying the source I don’t care that much) says 75% of the US speaks English as their primary language. If you removed the Spanish speakers, it would be over 90%.
Imagine if every country around you only spoke one language, that’s sort of what it’s like with the states. You’re much less likely to get people from nearby areas who just speak a different language, and so these people aren’t used to hearing it. We just aren’t close to a diverse set of languages.
That said, there’s no reason for them to have this strange paranoia that they’re being made fun of in another language (they probably are, since they’re losers, to be fair). Nor does it make sense for them to react with such xenophobia.
A few years ago, i was working in an entertainment company. One of the audio guys was called ‘Racist Dave,’ like he would introduce himself as such to clients.
One day, he heard a coworker talking to his kid on the phone in Spanish. This was in LA, so that’s obviously completely unheard of. Dave decided to go on a 10 minute rant about how we’re in MURIKKKA AND WE ALL GOTTA SPEAK MURIKKKAN! I took offense to this, and so whenever he’d go out to the taco truck at lunch, I’d follow him and loudly ask him what the “MURRIKKKAN” word for “burrito” or “taco” was. If also all him to kindly use the “MURIKKKAN” names for all the cities we were operating in: “it’s not ‘Los Angeles,’ it’s The Angels, Dave! It’s not ‘San Diego,’ it’s Whales Vagina, DAVE!”
He quit ordering from the taco truck after two days.
Fuck you, Dave.
This kind of energy is what I live for, hell yeah, fuck you dave
You found real life Bigoted Bill
Just not as catchy. Or fun. Or photogenic…
Whale’s vagina?
I love the concept, but does San Diego not simply mean Saint Diego?
Lol, it’s an Anchorman reference
Haha went right over my head. Remembering movie quotes has never been my skill!
No worries, I’ll remember 'em for the boffa us. It’s my superpower, whether i like it or not.
I should learn a selection of insults from some Native American languages so I can pull those out around dickheads who tell people to, “Speak American!”
Let me guess… Racist Dave is a zio?
Can’t honestly answer, but it would not surprise me.
WE ALL GOTTA SPEAK MURIKKKAN
Native Americans love this trick
Goddamn that’s so satisfying😂 Also - way too many people say things out loud thinking others around them can’t understand (sometimes in English, wtf), but yeah… we understand you and you sound like an asshole!
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