Dude, I get it, but I don’t have anything against you and I’m not demanding you learn English to cater to me.
Please stop assuming I’m racist or selfish for only knowing the language my parents spoke most when I was a baby, I probably could have picked up Spanish from my mom’s family but sending a teenager with Asperger’s like me to stay with relatives in South America in 2007 like my normal-brained brother did as a foreign exchange student would have been infeasible.
I just want to write speculative fiction in my own language and in return be grateful to people who are willing to learn a trade language, not be told I’m a monster just for speaking only a language that’s commonplace, is that too much to ask?
Many years ago, the common speech was French. The world of diplomacy and international mail was all French.
As someone who struggled for years learning that vile language, I’m glad we switched to English. It could have been German and its 16 different way to spell an article.
Fuck off, pinkdrunk. I was just trying to make a point about the meme, even I know bi_tux was being sarcastic. And no, I did have to ask someone wtf he said in German, I don’t understand it so much as know like three words (“Deutch” and a couple others) and recognize the similarities between English and German because I play transport simulators and the logistics sim game communities are pretty much centered around Germany and the UK.
Also nice post history, I see you’re ready and willing to attack anyone who disagrees with you. Blocked.
That’s inebriated pachyderms to you. And no, I won’t. Take the retarded anti-America bashing elsewhere; our country is in crisis right now and we don’t need to hear it.
And that’s all this post is, petty assholes taking advantage of the fact we’re destabilizing to needle us over stupid shit that doesn’t matter, as if we’re the only country on Earth whose members are primarily monolingual. That’s blatantly racist shit.
Also nice post history, I see you’re ready and willing to attack anyone who disagrees with you. Blocked.
Oh holy shit, the hypocrisy here is mind-blowing. Do you see what you just did right there? That kind of useless personal attack, toward an abuse survivor who spent an evening arguing with rape apologists trying to twist that to seem petty so you can win something?
Going through my post history while trying to claim I am being aggressive, as if that were even a bad thing? 🤦 As if what you’re doing isn’t an aggressive attack on someone you disagree with? 🤦🤦🤦
That’s the kind of useless needling I’m talking about. This is why you need to grow up and find something better to do with your free time.
Jesus Christ. This guy is picking on rape survivors arguing because he’s angry at being called out on racist shit. 🤦 Next lifetime, I am going to demand to be reborn a squirrel. Or a chameleon. Not a stupid fucking human.
I mean, fair enough. In North America everyone who was born here knows English even if they’re African-American or First Nations, but I could see why in most African nations it’s unfair to be focusing on English as anything more than a highly-recommended option in schools.
Thanks. I mostly posted that mini-rant because I’m unhappy with the current political divides here in Canada and in the US being reduced for too long to “self-righteous and toxic” and “intolerant and arrogant” to such a degree that memes like this are championed by the former while the latter use it as confirmation bias to justify their fear-motivated hatred.
Personally I would say I’m close to Center-Left and call my political philosophy Neutralism since Centrism seems to mean “compromises with both sides, even if one side is not governing in good faith” and I honestly care less about the social side of politics and more about its effects on people’s happiness.
So basically, I just feel sick of having to tell all the Woke, TERF and Conservative internet assholes that they are not entitled to having their opinion catered to and that I’m no more a right-winger for something like only knowing English than I am an SJW for knowing slavery in America was only 100% (99.9%?) eliminated in 2012, or a TERF for wondering what the basis is of the public opinion that J.K. Rowling is transphobic.
What a person does and doesn’t know is not what makes them ignorant. Willing ignorance is when you refuse to accept the truth because it’s uncomfortable, but that doesn’t mean finding the truth is easy. As far as many people around the world knew for decades, Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves at the end of the American Civil War and that was the end of the slavery part of racism, when in actuality the assassination of Lincoln was done deliberately so that the Vice President could undo everything Lincoln tried to fix. If you found that out, did that make you a racist until you realised it, or were you just human?
tl;dr: People who are extremists seem to have unreasonable expectations of what a good person is, ironically due to their own unwillingness to question what they believe. I’ve been silently trying to ignore it and I think today I just said "screw it, this clearly isn’t Reddit, I’m going to point out that this meme is actually and unreasonably taken as an ideal to be followed or fuel for the hate machine too often.
Dude, I get it, but I don’t have anything against you and I’m not demanding you learn English to cater to me.
Please stop assuming I’m racist or selfish for only knowing the language my parents spoke most when I was a baby, I probably could have picked up Spanish from my mom’s family but sending a teenager with Asperger’s like me to stay with relatives in South America in 2007 like my normal-brained brother did as a foreign exchange student would have been infeasible.
I just want to write speculative fiction in my own language and in return be grateful to people who are willing to learn a trade language, not be told I’m a monster just for speaking only a language that’s commonplace, is that too much to ask?
Sprich Deutsch, du elendiger Englisch sprechender Hurensohn!
No. Get over the fact that English is the common speech of the world. And be grateful you even can learn new languages; not all of us can.
Many years ago, the common speech was French. The world of diplomacy and international mail was all French.
As someone who struggled for years learning that vile language, I’m glad we switched to English. It could have been German and its 16 different way to spell an article.
Fuck off, pinkdrunk. I was just trying to make a point about the meme, even I know bi_tux was being sarcastic. And no, I did have to ask someone wtf he said in German, I don’t understand it so much as know like three words (“Deutch” and a couple others) and recognize the similarities between English and German because I play transport simulators and the logistics sim game communities are pretty much centered around Germany and the UK.
Also nice post history, I see you’re ready and willing to attack anyone who disagrees with you. Blocked.
That’s inebriated pachyderms to you. And no, I won’t. Take the retarded anti-America bashing elsewhere; our country is in crisis right now and we don’t need to hear it.
And that’s all this post is, petty assholes taking advantage of the fact we’re destabilizing to needle us over stupid shit that doesn’t matter, as if we’re the only country on Earth whose members are primarily monolingual. That’s blatantly racist shit.
Oh holy shit, the hypocrisy here is mind-blowing. Do you see what you just did right there? That kind of useless personal attack, toward an abuse survivor who spent an evening arguing with rape apologists trying to twist that to seem petty so you can win something?
Going through my post history while trying to claim I am being aggressive, as if that were even a bad thing? 🤦 As if what you’re doing isn’t an aggressive attack on someone you disagree with? 🤦🤦🤦
That’s the kind of useless needling I’m talking about. This is why you need to grow up and find something better to do with your free time.
Jesus Christ. This guy is picking on rape survivors arguing because he’s angry at being called out on racist shit. 🤦 Next lifetime, I am going to demand to be reborn a squirrel. Or a chameleon. Not a stupid fucking human.
It’s not about you personally, more about the education system in some countries versus others.
I mean, fair enough. In North America everyone who was born here knows English even if they’re African-American or First Nations, but I could see why in most African nations it’s unfair to be focusing on English as anything more than a highly-recommended option in schools.
All is good, no need to change one’s self to conform to what others think. All we can do is keep on trying to learn.
The meme was meant to be taken as a joke, while being a bit smug.
The title mentions programming languages, so as to widen the pool; Lemmy seems to have many that would fall under that category.
Culture wars and identity politics are just tools used to divide.
We shall come together to battle the wealthy class, as the gods have foretold.
Good luck, mate!
Thanks. I mostly posted that mini-rant because I’m unhappy with the current political divides here in Canada and in the US being reduced for too long to “self-righteous and toxic” and “intolerant and arrogant” to such a degree that memes like this are championed by the former while the latter use it as confirmation bias to justify their fear-motivated hatred.
Personally I would say I’m close to Center-Left and call my political philosophy Neutralism since Centrism seems to mean “compromises with both sides, even if one side is not governing in good faith” and I honestly care less about the social side of politics and more about its effects on people’s happiness.
So basically, I just feel sick of having to tell all the Woke, TERF and Conservative internet assholes that they are not entitled to having their opinion catered to and that I’m no more a right-winger for something like only knowing English than I am an SJW for knowing slavery in America was only 100% (99.9%?) eliminated in 2012, or a TERF for wondering what the basis is of the public opinion that J.K. Rowling is transphobic.
What a person does and doesn’t know is not what makes them ignorant. Willing ignorance is when you refuse to accept the truth because it’s uncomfortable, but that doesn’t mean finding the truth is easy. As far as many people around the world knew for decades, Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves at the end of the American Civil War and that was the end of the slavery part of racism, when in actuality the assassination of Lincoln was done deliberately so that the Vice President could undo everything Lincoln tried to fix. If you found that out, did that make you a racist until you realised it, or were you just human?
tl;dr: People who are extremists seem to have unreasonable expectations of what a good person is, ironically due to their own unwillingness to question what they believe. I’ve been silently trying to ignore it and I think today I just said "screw it, this clearly isn’t Reddit, I’m going to point out that this meme is actually and unreasonably taken as an ideal to be followed or fuel for the hate machine too often.