Well, the hate bus started its tour today. At the first stop in Clarkston, the bus was met by at least two hundred local protesters. Williams had only two supporters in attendance. The hate bus was late showing up, late rolling out, and despite his slogan of “#FearlessConservative” Williams was too scared to get out of the bus and talk to anyone who actually lived in the community. What a chickenshit.
Good evening everybody! Just in case you’d all thought I’d had enough and shut up about Gàidhlig I’m here to prove you wrong.
Today Edinburgh City Council posted about Gàidhlig, in Gàidhlig.
This is great and it’s wonderful to see, obviously.
Here are some of the responses.
Obviously there were Gàidhlig responses and several supportive English responses too. But I want to highlight some of what Gàidhlig speakers are subject to when the language is even used in a public sphere. Even just *seeing* it seems to set people off.
This has a very real impact on people, don’t think that it doesn’t. Someone please tell me why a language and culture deserves this much hatred on a regular basis? Do the native speakers of this language really deserve this being thrown at them?
Scotland’s a progressive and left wing nation, it welcomes all peoples, cultures and languages!
The social democrats in Sweden are currently: a) Proposing to make the existing draconian anti-immigration laws permanent b) re-introducing the draft c) Strengthening already massive police power d) Proposing the setting up of Nauru-style concentration camps e) Banning the children of illegal immigrants from schools and healthcare, therefore making public servants extensions of the immigration service
This needs to be known outside of Sweden. Not that critique will help anything, but nontheless this needs to be understood when discussing social democracy and the “People’s Home” model of Swedish social democracy, arguably the most developed one in the world for a very, very long time.
Oh, I forgot: f) Proposing making strikes illegal for minority (i.e. not controlled by teh social democrats) unions g) Continuing the privatization of the health-care system
Basically migrants are people and it’s weird and unnatural the way we insist that it’s preferable for everyone to stay where they were born when they could potentially have a better life.
Any talk of migrants “driving wages down” only ever distracts from this. Socialists shouldn’t be respecting arbitrary boundaries drawn in the sand.
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