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the DARK IDEOLOGY secretly lurking in language YouTube
languagejones | 22 Sept. 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDsAdg92fyQ

I very much liked the video, except the abuse of the term Fascism.

It's not just language learning but also language using that's plagued by obsession with "native speakers" ...

1:08 What's abnormal with admiring Il Duce (up to when he became a certain other guy's admirer and eventually puppet régime)?

I mean, Yona Amit had a lovely normal childhood in Italy up to the German invasion. Sure, Carta della Razza wasn't good either, but that's more of my complaint, like if a Catholic of Jewish origin wanted to marry one of purely Italian ... and that only came in 1938.

8:46 I note, you are not so much complaining about Fascism (even if Franco's régime was horrific on linguistic terms, that was not the case with the legal opposition, their allies during 36—39, the Carlists), but about normalising Nation States, in other words, the work of people like Richelieu and Bismarck, partly via Napoleon. None of the three being Fascist, and Napoleon III was actually one opposite of Fascist, namely Capitalist (the other opposite of Fascist being Communist).

BunkerKnacker - Retro & Nostalgie

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The dark ultrabolshevist ideology secretly lurking in a language Youtuber.

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@hglundahl

Preferring language universalism, not as in a universal language, but as in universal acceptance of languages, is hardly ultrabolshevist.

Hilaire Belloc and Charles Maurras were anything but Bolsheviks, but both loved the pre-nationialist Christendom which Luther broke the unity of (Hilaire Belloc also as a faithful Catholic) and at least the former was looking forward to some kind of post-nationalism.