John Derbyshire Eats Mierda
Published by McBoing May 31st, 2006 in Edumakashun, WingnutsDoes Derbyshire honestly think that knowing Spanish doesn’t already confer an advantage to the job seeker? N.B. the reference to trade partners in the preceding text. Is this preference for people with actual communication skills a thing Americans actually want? ¿Que carajo quieres, pajero? Life handed to you on a silver platter? Conservatives once claimed to reward hard work and study and sacrifice. Here Americans are rising to the occasion, ready to ensure their kids’ place in the anticipated new global economy by helping them learn a crucial skill, and Derbyshire? Derbyshire gimotea como un cochinillo sobre las conspiraciónes.
Because Derbyshire es un hipócrita. Jamais nunca estaba sobre el trabajo duro. Ha estado siempre sobre sembrar las semillas del odio. Y la cosa peor: tan muchos Americanos son ignorantes, y entonces lo creerán.
Que lástima.
Que maravillosa ese ensayo: tan mucho odio cabe en solamente doscientas palabras.
Heh. Indeed. If I knew Spanish.
Is that even Spanish? Not that I know Spanish, but my handy translating widget wasn’t able to make much of it.
I do know German, though. Cuz that’s totally relevant.
Man, I don’t even know.
Is that even Spanish? Not that I know Spanish, but my handy translating widget wasn’t able to make much of it.
Well, it’s almost certainly BAD Spanish. But it’s Spanish. It’s idiomatic, and translating widgets kinda suck at idiom.
Free translation:
Does Derbyshire honestly think that knowing Spanish doesn’t already confer an advantage to the job seeker? N.B. the reference to trade partners in the preceding text. Is this preference for people with actual communication skills a thing Americans actually want? ¿[What the fuck do you want, wanker]? Life handed to you on a silver platter? Conservatives once claimed to reward hard work and study and sacrifice. Here Americans are rising to the occasion, ready to ensure their kids’ place in the anticipated new global economy by helping them learn a crucial skill, and Derbyshire? Derbyshire [whines like a piglet about conspiracies].
Because Derbyshire [is a hypocrite. It's never been about hard work. It's been about sowing the seeds of hate. And what's worse: Too many Americans are ignorant enough to believe him.]
[What a shame.]
[An amazing essay: so much hate held in just two hundred words.]
No offense to anyone, but I think this is awful. I wouldn’t mind if it were being done with some other language—-Latin, say, or Hungarian, or Sumerian, or Chinese. Since it’s being done — and ONLY being done — in Spanish, it’s hard to resist the conclusion that this is part of a deliberate program of Hispanicization on the part of our political and bureaucratic elites.
The logical end-point of this path will be the situation in Quebec, where a person not bilingual — in our case, in English and Spanish — will be at a disadvantage in the job market. Is this a thing Americans actually want? Did anyone ask us?
Oh.
I read the first bit and thought he was going to make some point about the kids not learning english, and therefore making it so very very hard for him to order his 4 cheese platter bowls at KFC. That’s usually what they’re whining about, immigrants not being able to speak english, not their ability to speak spanish as well as english.
Seriously, dude! How the hell can you object to bilingual kids, just…the hell?
Shorter john derbyshire: “education bad” says cro magnon buffy.
First of all, I welcome our new Hispanic overlords.
Second of all, Spanish is one of the planet’s most widely spoken languages. Expecially here in this hemisphere. As has been pointed out, you kind of already are at a disadvantage if you don’t speak Spanish.
Hell, I’m in the middle of looking for a job and I’d have more opportunities if I spoke spanish. To me, that means I should learn to speak spanish, not attempt to marginalise Spanish speakers.
You know, I had no idea Derb was such a racist. I mean… he explicitly states that he dislikes this not out of opposition to second language learning, but out of opposition to those nasty hispanics polluting out pure white culture.
I mean, wow.
The Corner freaks me out… you have these completely radical racist and sexist ideas, but they’re thrown out there in a conversational, almost cloyingly friendly fashion.
The dissonence between what is said and how it is said freaks me out really quickly.