Redditor realizes that the racists were right
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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 want businesses owners to choose for themselves how to best serve their customers.
If a business thinks a wheelchair ramp and giant bathroom stalls helps them then great, if they don't then also great. No need to bring lawyers and bureaucrats into it.
The Federal Government literally told all of the Cajun grandparents that English was the language of the land and they had to speak it to use government services. Which is basically one of the main reasons it died out as a language and requires active effort to keep alive to this day.
So why did Spanish get the exact opposite treatment?
I agree, not being able to speak english is a disability