yup, struggle session time
edit: no one is right, everyone is wrong :^)
edit 2: this post is actually dedicated to Amy Goodman, please stop trying to sound cool grandma
My point is that there is nothing about saying Spanish is a colonial language that is exclusive to Latinos in the diaspora
Removed from context maybe, but in the context of that comment this is exactly what I’m arguing and I expect anyone from Latam to have my back on this.
This simply isn’t true, people study and discuss settler-colonial dynamics in Latin America as well.
Spanish settlers came and conquered the natives and created an entire political and ideological apparatus to justify their exploitation of them. Part of this was making other languages other than Spanish taboo and subject to punishment, legal or otherwise. This culture and ideology has not dissapeared in these countries and the erasure of a colonial past is part of that.
