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philplait.bsky.social • 1 day ago

The only reason for this is bigotry

Reposted from The Guardian

Trump signs executive order designating English as official language of US

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mitycheese.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's all show, it doesn't really do anything. More dominance display.

annular.bsky.social•1 day ago

Teeing up immigration gatekeeping. “You don’t speak the official language good(sic) enough. Denied.”

drunk-ukrainian.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think the Natives will have something to say about it...

drunk-ukrainian.bsky.social•1 day ago

Does "dibs" work with politics?

drunk-ukrainian.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because if we're going to be pedantic, THEY are the "real Americans", you know, having been the actual first peoples in the continent.

c3jb.bsky.social•1 day ago

….misspells name

bflmouse.bsky.social•1 day ago

On the plus side, if they're actually going to use the English language instead of American, they will all have to learn to spell things properly.

birthwright.bsky.social•1 day ago

Gonna need the progressives to step in, and do something where the closer-to-centrist democrats are failing altogether.

peyre.bsky.social•1 day ago

Typical right-wing bullshit. It doesn't solve a pressing problem. The only thing it does is make bigots feel better about themselves and minorities feel more marginalized.

pacocatalaf.bsky.social•1 day ago

Intolerancia, supremacismo y celos hacia la 2ª lengua materna más hablada en nuestro planeta (y la 2ª más hablada en USA).

kevinsci.bsky.social•21 hours ago

I dare this executive order to stop me from speaking cling on whenever I want to

brooklynkid53bskys.bsky.social•1 day ago

Without debating if this EO is good or bad*

what % of Americans will agree with Trump on this ?

What % of people on bluesky will fail to understand that ?

*tbc, a vile racist EO

scubaninja.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Fortunately most government agencies aren’t as douchey as Trump. But this is just one step away from mandating the use of English as the only option.

darrenmilbrandt.bsky.social•1 day ago

How about the metric system?

dionysia8.bsky.social•1 day ago

🎯

ejgarand93.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Any word on designating the Algonquin, Iroquoian, and Siouan–Catawban languages an official status?

What a clown this guy is! 🤡

richardg42.bsky.social•1 day ago

But if people speak English, how will he communicate with them?

chhuey.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Puerto Rico might have an issue with this.

vman29397.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Depends on who you ask in puerto rico. Statehooder being the maga ass lickers they are will make 10000 excuses 4 this. The independence camp will use it as further proof we have no place as part of the us

olesen.bsky.social•1 day ago

and sign language is what? Not a language

amkari.bsky.social•1 day ago

It is indeed a language🌸

donsayers.bsky.social•1 day ago

But it's not ENGLISH, it's something almost but not quite entirely unlike English.

itsallgreektome.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ignorance and xenophobia- *rump's guiding principles.

kenkiyama.bsky.social•1 day ago

The bigotry and “the brown people are taking over” paranoia Trump has in common with much of the right-wing base.

hanoiski8.bsky.social•1 day ago

Pure bigotry and stupidity, coming from someone who may not even be literate in any language.

datacable.bsky.social•1 day ago

Who was it that owns a country club with a Spanish name in a state with a Spanish name, again?

datacable.bsky.social•1 day ago

If you live in a town, city, township, county, or state whose name has a non-english etymology, contact the chief administrator and demand that the name be immediately changed to the English translation in order to comply with this Executive Order.