Oh, and I guess Native Americans never went to war with EACH OTHER? Right.
Please do not try to equate warfare between regional tribes (which usually at most cost the lives of several hundred people at each skirmish with the systematic and wholesale landtheft,ethnic cleansing,and attempts at genocide which has cost thousands upon thousands (if not millions) of Native Americans lives.
This is real life. There's no "original sin." Everyone has someone in their family tree with blood on their hands, if you go back far enough. It's just DNA - it says nothing about who that individual is as a person. I bet my ancestors had slaves. Does that make me pro-slavery? I bet your ancestors killed some people from other Native American tribes. Should I blame you?
I don't excuse the blood on my ancestors hands,and I don't condone it.
But I'm not going to let that negate the blood on the hands of those who killed my ancestors for their land either.
Please put up the post where I blamed any modern person here for the atrocities committed in the past against my ancestors.
If you can,seeing as how I didn't.
Post 95 was only an analogy (and a bad one at that I admit) and not a direct blame on any modern person,
Trying to guilt people who have nothing to do with whatever historical thing you won't let go of is completely pointless to the conversation. Nothing you've said has anything to do with having a national language. You're not even participating in the debate. Just flinging about emotionally-laden but argumentatively fallacious side-tracks from the conversation the rest of us are trying to have.
Have you even actually carefully read all my posts?
And yet no one has come forward to claim that anything I've said was inaccurate or untrue.
I have stated a number of times on this thread that the logic used to support an Official Language (that the majority does it and has done it for a long time) can also be used to support an Official Religion, an official Ideology,or an Official Race.
No one has come out and refuted that.
Because it is a valid point.
I have asked what safeguards are in place to prevent that sort of thing from happening.
A valid question.
The answer has thus far seems to boil down to "there is no guarantee,you just going to have to trust us".
I have pointed out that an "Official language" can be turned into a "Forced/Mandatory Language" and used examples from my ancestry and my own past as to show how it can happen and the affects it can cause.
A valid point
Again,no one refuted the accuracy or the validity of it.
I have asked if there is a guarantee that atrocities cannot by committed because of it(Making English "Official).
A valid question
Again the answer boiled down to "no guarantee,you are just going to have to trust us".
I have asked why should we even need an "Official Language"
A valid question.
The general answer has been (including your's) "because other countries do it".
Very little statistical data or evidence that it can have benefits for us in this country.
It seems to me that's the equivalent of saying "because we say so".
Just because you and some others may not like the questions I ask,or the points I have made, doesn't mean that I have not participated or addad to this discussion.
Most developed countries, with the best standard of living and the lowest crime, have a national language. The implementation of declaring an official language is well-known, well-practiced, and has nothing to do with ethnic, cultural, or territorial war. It is obvious to everyone but you that what you're saying has no bearing on the concept at hand.
In other words " because other countries do it"
Do you have any statistics on this. Any empirical evidence.
I'd love to see it cause so far,none has been shown.
Show me how doing so will benefit this country.
If that's not too much to ask.
Can you give a hundred percent guarantee that there is absolutely no racism/bigotry nor ulterior motives within anyone who supports
making English the "Official language".
Because there seems to be a number of people on this thread asking that very same question.