Evil multilingualism
On the American Dialect Society's mailing list this morning, Dennis
Preston quoted from
a column in the
State
News, Michigan State's student newspaper, today:
Leftists have tried fervently since the
1960s to subvert American culture by promoting cultural heresies, which
really only amount to a form of subversion. These cultural heresies
include but are not limited to: Radical feminism, sexual deviancy,
multilingualism and atheism.
Since the days of Joseph McCarthy, the list of threats to America from
the left has evolved some. Communism is no longer high on the
list, while feminism has joined homosexuality and atheism as a major
ogre, along with abortion and same-sex marriage (cultural heresies that
didn't make conservative columnist Nate Sherman's short list of four,
though they're surely in his top ten). But now we see that
multilingualism is subversion, major subversion.
Godless, queer, feminazi multilinguals! They're everywhere!
Why, my partner Jacques was quadrilingual. Oh.
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Posted by Arnold Zwicky at September 13, 2007 02:44 PM