Reply #48: I Appreciate That

[Lib Grrrrl]

Look, the problem is...and I'm willing to admit it...it's FEAR.
I am deathly afraid that they not only REFUSE to learn English...they don't want to...and they will swamp us to the point where English is no longer the common language...and then I will be old and helpless in my own country.

I'm terrified of it. And I am too fucking lazy too learn their language. I don't fucking want to. I didn't ask them to come here. english is good enough for me, it oughta be good enough for anyone else who comes here, too.

I know, it's not the typical liberal Democrat approach to this, but this is just one subject I simply refuse to roll over on.

The one problem I have with liberals, in general...is that we tend to roll over for anybody and everybody, and then they walk all over us! I think we lose elections because we don't TRY hard enough to win...we just roll over and let the assholes walk all over us, naively believing that, somehow, showing those who hate us...showing them love...will make them change. It diesn't...it only makes them laugh and take advantage of us more.

This is just one area where I plain, flat, refuse to roll over. I won't do it. I INSIST people speak English to me in my own country. If they won't, then I won't talk to them. because i'll be goddamned if I'm gonna learn their language. they came here...they learn OURS.

And don't start up crap about the Native Americans...they had hundreds of differnt languages. Each TRIBE had a different language. If any of them had become the dominant language, that would have been okay, too. My point is, I want this country to have one dominant language, and one only, because I don't want to learn other languages.

Other cultures, traditions, rituals, etc...I'm good with that stuff. BUT NOT LANGUAGES...that's where I draw the line.