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Decolonization is for gringos. People who are proud of their heritage and culture don’t put up with it.
At a conference on the Spanish language held in March, Buenos Aires-born journalist Martín Caparrós proposed renaming the language “Ñamericano” to remove its colonial origins.
However, the director of the 46-member Spanish Royal Academy, Santiago Muñoz Machado, was asked Monday to consider the writer’s proposal. He flatly rejected the idea.
“It’s a witticism, which is fine as a witticism,” Muñoz Machado told Spanish news agency EFE.
The Spanish Royal Academy frequently finds itself embroiled in debates about “inclusive” Spanish, which might mean addressing a group of men and women with the feminine “todas” instead of the male “todos” to mean “everyone.”
Last year, Muñoz Machado dismissed as a “political manifestation” an emerging trend to make the language gender-neutral — for instance, replacing “niño” (boy) and niña (girl) with “niñe” (child).
“It is not part of the grammar, it is not orthodox, and probably in many places it will not be understood,” he told Chilean media. “It is an expression with no practical reality.”
Don’t ask him about ‘Latinx’.
The Left is obsessed with destroying the past, but only people who have lost their sense of the past and their self-esteem are willing to go along with that. Even while leftists treat Latinos as an oppressed minority, they’re a regional majority and have little interest in adopting lefty newspeak. And why should they?
Latinos are not ashamed of colonizing the continent. We’re ashamed because we’ve lost our sense of self.
Comrades! Necesitamos hacer mucho trabajo!
Damn straight we do.
Controlling languages is a big leftist project. I wonder how far back it goes.
Well, at least to the French Revolution, but I suspect it might go back millennia longer. Actually it does. Look at the Roman emperor who renamed the conquered kingdom of Judah “Palestine”. Was he unique in his day?
Hadrian left an historical mark. Or scar, depending upon perspective.
It was the first time the Romans said “Screw it, just build a wall.” Granted, there was nothing they wanted up there, but still, we’re talking about the Romans here.
“Socialism is not a movement of the people. It is a movement of the intellectuals, originated, led and controlled by the intellectuals, carried by them out of their stuffy ivory towers into those bloody fields of practice where they unite with their allies and executors: the thugs.” – Ayn Rand
All this insanity, irrationality, unreason, and anti-reason isn’t coming from the American people but from the philosophers and intellectuals at the universities.
But historically, no people have ever ultimately been able to triumph over the philosophers and intellectuals, over the priesthood.
But Ayn Rand correctly saw that in the history of mankind it is earlier, not later, than we think. And America is a historically unprecedented phenomenon. These two facts gave her a strong expectation that America would end up going through many trials and tribulations, possibly even another civil war, but that it would ultimately triumph as a nation of freedom, liberty, and capitalism. The happiness and prosperity of the genie of capitalism, once let out of the bottle by the Industrial Revolution, was too strong to put back in the bottle. Implicitly, rational selfishness would win over altruism until enough Americans could explicitly and philosophically understand what they were fighting for.
In other words, with the modern, easy, inexpensive, informal, non-university, access to books, pamphlets, educational videos, radio, television, internet, her historically unprecedented moral code of rational selfishness could spread throughout the culture and for the first time in history the American people could defeat the priesthood, i.e., the philosophers, theologians, and intellectuals at the universities, churches, newspapers, think tanks, etc.
You said it, brother! But my fear is that the “modern, easy, inexpensive, informal, non-university, access to books, pamphlets, educational videos, radio, television, internet” — regarding every philosophy and body of facts — might not be forever, once the lights go out. With cheap sources of energy being banned (no electricity) and forests being too sacred to mine for wood (no paper) and printing presses being a thing of the past, even samizdat publications will become mighty thin on the ground if the elites’ dreams come true. I would rather Rand’s do, with the unlimited power of free market economics being loosed to everyone’s benefit.
Only the universal, and mandatory, adoption of Esperanto can rescue us from the horrible divisiveness of individual languages.
Facilitation of lingual adaptation by surgical insertion of Chinese nano circuitry to synaptically interface with the brain cortex would be a step in the right direction.
We have covid relief money, and we have the top shelf leadership to make it happen. Gosh, could we get any luckier?
Start awarding those research grants to the ideologically appropriate recipients. And better do i now, before the dual resignation that threatens to return sanity to governance.
lol, good one Sid 🙂
I had been thinking that Esperanto was an earlier Communist project. I think Soros was interested in it.
His father was a devoted esperantist. He changed the family name from Schwartz to Soros, meaning soars, in his enthusiasm.
Thanks Lightbringer, I always enjoy your comments 🙂
The moniker is appropriate.