Redditor realizes that the racists were right
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I disagree there. Being able to hold a conversation, and knowing technical vocabulary is completely different.
It isn't a technical issue, it is a symbolic one.
When you force American English speakers to go through an extra step to get their language you are saying "you aren't the norm anymore, you are one of a range of options." And by having spanish everywhere you are telling the invaders/immigrants "don't bother assimilating, you are equally important to the natives".
It is one of many incremental steps toward the cultural transformation of the country away from distinctly White Anglo toward a global economic zone.
If there are really people who are not learning English that is fucked up. Spanish language service from teh cable company for grandma to get her soaps is not the most significant sign of the invasion to me.
In the past, English was never enforced as the primary language. It just was that way, except in places where it wasn't. That is good enough for me, the way it was, pre-invasion.
It's included in disability support services.
Those regulations also need to go.
You don't want your grandparents or people in wheelchairs to be protected?
I agree, not being able to speak english is a disability