domhnall-na-feannaig:

A left wing person:  Hi, I champion the rights of minorities.

Me:  Have you heard that people in their own country, speaking one of that country’s native languages have had to fight for the right to be educated in their own language?  

LWP:  That’s awful.

Me:  Sixty years ago children were beaten in school for speaking it.

LWP:  A sign of cultural imperialism if ever I’ve heard it.

Me:  And now even slightly token support gets a load of vitriol from the right wing.  Railway signs make them foam at the mouth.

LWP:  Seeing a minority language causes people anger?  That’s so backwards.

Me:  Now they have 2.5 million over a period of 15 years to make a historical dictionary which already exists for English, its finally getting something that English speakers have taken for granted.

LWP:  That’s great!

Me:  Yeah, it’s really good that Scottish Gaelic has at least some support.

LWP:  Scottish….Gaelic?  Um, no thanks.  That’s the preserve of blood and soil nationalists and I’m always suspicious of people who support it.