hatey-mchaterson:

stuavg: also, if you’re white and speak spanish better than i can i will basically hate you and side-eye you and fucking resent your existence. ESPECIALLY IF YOUR PARENTS DON’T SPEAK IT AND YOU DO like fuck you. fuck you. fuck you. learning my language is reclaiming my cultural roots and trying to close the diaspora in my lineage. learning a language is a luxury to you. One that cost me a large part of my culture. EDIT: Here’s the context for people getting all flustered (here and here). Note, I left the original post above unedited, and NO WHERE in that post did I say that you cannot/shouldn’t learn another language. Nor was I calling anyone racist. Y’all brought your own shit into this conversation and starting yelling about “appropriation!” and “laziness” when it is clearly something else entirely. This is insane. Everyone in the US has the opportunity to learn English for free. I know this is true, because I used to volunteer teaching Hispanic people to read English after another volunteer taught them to speak it. It was hard work, but my students were willing to put in the effort. A lot of people have the opportunity to learn Spanish in the public schools for free too. If you’re Hispanic and don’t speak Spanish as well as your white counterparts, it’s your own damn fault. There is nothing, NOTHING, short of your own laziness, holding you back. This is just straight-up jealousy of someone else’s hard work. There IS no context that could possibly make this statement all right. Take your sour grapes and eat them, you racist.

“also, if you’re white and speak spanish better than i can i will basically hate you and side-eye you and fucking resent your existence. ESPECIALLY IF YOUR PARENTS DON’T SPEAK IT AND YOU DO”

So…basically every public school student that takes Spanish then? You know…except for the part where it’s REQUIRED in public school to take a language for at least two years…yup, totally culture appropriation to learn another language. You know…disregarding the fact that bilingual/multilingual people are some of the most valued in the world…yup…totally culture appropriation. Being able to speak a second language better than a Hispanic doesn’t say anything about a person except that they are an exceptional student who wanted to learn the language. Agreeing with above comment; if you can’t speak your own language, IT’S YOUR OWN FAULT, AND NO ONE ELSE’S.

Learning a second language is not a luxury. It is needed. Um…hello. America: land of so many cultures and languages that no school could have them all available as classes.

Dude, get over yourself. You do not own your language. Your language is free and available to anyone that wants to learn it. Like Latin. Like French. Like Chinese. Like Japanese. Like German. Like Portuguese. Get over yourself, and move on.