#minorites

[useless-catalanfacts]

A day in the life of someone who posts on the internet in Catalan *cue dozens of Spanish people asking "what's wrong with your mouth", ordering him to speak in Spanish or "in Christian", saying he's rude for speaking in Catalan, calling him "polaco" (derogatory Spanish word to mean a Catalan person), calling the Catalan language a dialect, saying he is possessed because he's speaking Catalan, etc*

This is a video by Sergi Mas showing some of the comments he gets on YouTube. He makes videos about mountain biking that he posts on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. And the first comment he got on his first YouTube video was already someone telling him he should do it in Spanish.

Some days ago, another creator who posts his videos in Catalan (Joan Sendra, find him on Instagram and TikTok) answered to a Spanish person who was complaining that it's rude to speak Catalan/Valencian on the internet instead of Spanish because then there's people who don't understand you (as if everyone in the world spoke Spanish lmao). Joan, who is tired of getting this kind of comments so often, answered: there are already endless videos and things to watch on the internet in Spanish. In fact, if you look for [the topic he was talking about in the video that this guy commented] all the videos are in Spanish except for mine. And yet you had to come to me, the one in Valencian, and tell me that I can't make a video in my language and that I can only make it in yours. If you don't like it, it's so easy to find another one!

However, it's not a matter of actually being interested in what's being said in a language they don't speak. It's about the imposition of the language they consider superior (Spanish) and telling speakers of the languages whose land Spain had occupied that they are useless and should be ashamed of existing in public. Well, we aren't. Like Sergi's video, don't let the comments disturb your macarrons.

[no-passaran]

Are you 18-35 years old and an activist or academic from a minoritized or minority language? This might interest you!

(And even if you don't meet the criteria but are interested in participating in another way, the organizers still encourage you to write to them!)

Website link:

[agrebel18]

“we need more m/f friendships in media that stay platonic due to heteronormativity that’s rooted in homophobia/aphobia plus women and men can actually be good friends without romance” and “having m/f romances aren’t inherently bad especially if the people involved are fat, disabled, neurodivergent, and/or people of color because queer people aren’t the only marginalized group that need to be represented” are two statements that can and should coexist. 

[quatregats]

What if The Frogs and the Lobsters but they actually set it in the real Muzillac and Mariette was Breton

[racketti]

homophobic/transphobic billy fans are NOT welcome in this fandom!!! 🚫

It's not whether you like harringrove or not, it's your behavior. you can dislike a ship without being an asshole about it, or you're just acting like the antis.

you can't stand a fictional ship/headcanon for some reason? it's not our fault, don't blame us. turn off the phone or something.

[nekomimiswitchtsukarui]

really not a big fan of ppl on here making "jokes" about killing minorities

[thenixkat]

whenever I see fuckers in the fandom saying that Dunmeshi handles racism well I'm like, no the fuck it didn't.

And I very much suspect the folks saying it does probably don't experience racism on a daily basis. Or have to work closely with people who are openly racist as hell on a regular basis.

We get informed that characters are bigots, experience secondhand bigotry to characters getting macro or microaggressed, none of the characters are shown to actually challenge their beliefs or change them, and the characters that are actively openly bigots receive no comeuppance for it and are supposed to be on some level relatable.

That is not handling the topic of racism in a work well. That's an example of a creator who doesn't really think it's a big deal.

(the same way how the folks who go 'well everyone is a little racist' are just bigots who think that everyone thinks like they do and are the same kinda people who say shit like 'everyone had a nazi phase when they were a teen')

[yutamayo]

BITCH WHAT DOES RACIST IN A COOL WAY MEAN 😭 PLEAAAASE

He's very inclusive in his bigotry. Also not only is he a single mother, but he didn't rely on previous religions as a guidebook. He started his own, and frankly it's a little homophobic to not support queer owned businesses and female entrepreneurs.

[rotzaprachim]

test in a severely endangered minority language later today and at this point I’m motivated mainly by spite to create better teaching materials because the ones we have right now are so insufficient. @ guy who decided to teach three tenses when the class only knows three verbs and include more dense examples of English linguistic terminology in a picture-less textbook with few opportunities for naturalistic sentence structure and immersion, I’m hunting you in your sleep

[alechans-cutetickles]

🇮🇹:Perfavore fattemi felice cioe pk far parte della communita dell solletico essendo minore FA SCHIFO?! CIOE MI SI SPEZZA IL CUORE QUANDO UN BLOG DI SL DICE "MINORS DNI" MA PK ODIATE I MINORI?!?! (Ho 14 anni)

🇺🇸:pls cheer me up like why be in the tickle community has a minor IT'S SUCK LIKE..MY HEART GET BROKED WHEN A TK BLOG SAY "MINORS DNI" WHY U ALL HATE MINORI!?!? (I'm 14)

[useless-catalanfacts]

Sweden saying they'll vote against allowing the use of Catalan, Basque and Galician in the European Union Parliament because "there's lots of minority languages and we can't allow them all" is so funny because CATALAN HAS MORE SPEAKERS THAN SWEDISH

Catalan is the 13th most spoken language in the EU. It has more than 10 million speakers, which means it has more speakers than other languages that are already official EU languages like Maltese (530,000), Estonian (1.2 million), Latvian (1.5 million), Irish (1.6 million), Slovene (2.5 million), Lithuanian (3 million), Slovak (5 million), Finnish (5.8 million), Danish (6 million), Swedish (10 million), and Bulgarian (10 million).

Neither Galician (3 million) nor Basque (750,000) would still be the least spoken languages to be allowed in the EU representative bodies.

But even if any of them did, so what? Why do speakers of smaller languages deserve less rights than those of bigger languages? How are we supposed to feel represented by the EU Parliament when our representatives aren't even allowed to speak our language, but the dominant groups can speak theirs?

It all comes down to the hatred of language/cultural diversity and the belief that it's an inconvenience, that only the languages of independent countries have any kind of value while the rest should be killed off. After all, isn't that what Sweden has been trying to do to the indigenous Sami people for centuries?

[undeniablerealities]

I'm sorry immigrants, you deserve to be here

I'm sorry afab's, you deserve control of your bodies

I'm sorry trans folk, you deserve to be alive

I'm sorry poor folk, you deserve your independence

I'm sorry disabled folk, you deserve help

I'm sorry old folks, you deserve the care you recieve

I'm sorry minorities, you deserve safety

I'm sorry parents, you deserve for your kids to know peace

I'm sorry children, you deserve to know peace

I'm sorry Ukraine, you deserve your sovreignty

I'm sorry Palestine, you deserve your sovreignty

I'm sorry Earth, you deserve residents who care for you

[minglana]

in 2025 i should get back into aragonese. maybe that will make me feel something again

[quicktimeeventfull]

truly one of the most frustrating things about being minoritized & in particular racially minoritized is the absolutely unhinged paranoia of ‘is this actually bad or am i just wildly misinterpreting the circumstance’ that it generates in you. like you kind of have to be on guard but sometimes you overcorrect. and other times you convince yourself you were just being paranoid when you were in fact correct. ime the latter is much more common but it’s not universally the case SO what are you supposed to do u know. what’s the solution here.

[scentedpastaclodsoul]

Parlam un pauc de l'occitan (Let's talk about occitan)

L'occitan es una langa que se parla dins lo sud de França, al nòrd d'Itàlia, dins la Val d'Aran, en Catalunya. Es una lenga romanica que fa pas partida de las lengas oficialas en França mas qu'es ensenhada dins d'unas escòlas e universitats. Se retròba dins l'occitan diferent dialèctes, aicí es de lengadocian. L'Estat francés en unificant lo país astors d'una lenga comuna a participat activament a l'esfaçament de nòstra lenga e de nòstra cultura. Son ensenhament èra defendut, los ensenhaires que parlavan occitan son estats remplaçats e se los escolans parlavan occitan a l'escòla èran punís fisicament. Uèi, nòstra lenga es "en dangièr seriós d'extincion" segon l'UNESCO. L'occitan es pas la sola lenga regionala a aver subte aquò. Totas la diversitat lingüistica en França es estada tocada.

Occitan is a language spoken in southern France, northern Italy, the Aran Valley and Catalonia. It is a Romance language that is not an official language in France but is taught in some schools and universities. Within Occitan itself there are different dialects, here it is Languedocien. The French state, by unifying the country around a common language, has actively participated in the erasure of our language and culture. Its teaching was forbidden, teachers who spoke Occitan were replaced and if pupils spoke Occitan at school they were physically punished. Today, our language is "in serious danger of extinction" according to UNESCO. Occitan is not the only regional language to have suffered this. All linguistic diversity in France has been affected.

[caruliaa]

YOU DUMBASSES IN AMERICA ARE GONNA SUCK IT UP AND DO WHAT WE DID OR IM GOING TO GO OVER THERE AND KILL MYSELF IF FRONT OF ALL OF YOU IM NOT JOKINGGG OH MY FUCKING GOD !!!! THE TORIES DIDNT NEED PROJECT 2025 FOR US TO GET RID OF THEM SO WHY ARE YOU STILL ARGUING OVER BIDEN WHEN TRUMP BEING ELECTED AGAIN IS GOING TO LIKE. ACTUALLY RUIN ALL OF YOUR LIVES AND BLOW BACK ON THE REST OF THW WORLD TOO OHH MY GOD !!!