It is a very interesting read. Roger Palós' report in this newspaper about the pro-Spanish entities that act against Catalan-language schools in Catalonia, the Valencian Community, and the Balearic Islands. Sociedad Civil Catalana (with its derivatives: Sociedad Civil Valenciana and Sociedad Civil Balear), Escuela de Todos, Asamblea por una Escuela Bilingüe, and Hablamos Español are dedicated to combating the teaching of Catalan and in Catalan in the Catalan Countries, a reality that, according to them, does not exist. However, the territories or communities that they are part of do, curiously, have in common the fact that they have Losada, when he says that they are established mainly in Catalonia, the Valencian Community, and the Balearic Islands because "the situation is much more complicated": the "complication" must be understood as the fact that people speak Catalan.
As organizations, all these people (we can also count some local ones, such as Lo Rat Penat in Valencia or the Jaume III Foundation in the Balearic Islands) also have things in common: the first and most fundamental, as we have already said, is the fight against the Catalan language, which they take in an organized manner to the political, legal, and social arenas. Another is the opacity of their funding: given their meager social representation and limited capacity for mobilization, it is difficult to know where they get the resources for their considerable activity, especially that which they carry out in the courts. Considering that they spend their lives reporting alleged beach bars From Catalan, it would be worthwhile to force these traditional entities into public transparency and accountability. Finally, they also share the fallacy of their approaches. They all start from two fundamental assumptions: one, Spanish is persecuted or marginalized in Catalonia, the Valencian Community, and the Balearic Islands, to the "benefit" of Catalan (false: the situation is exactly the opposite, and obviously persecuting and marginalizing languages is never a "benefit" for anyone); and two, in the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands, "Catalan" threatens to replace "Valencian" or "Mallorcan" (or Menorcan, Ibizan, Formentera, and the entire rich array of languages we apparently speak in the Balearic Islands). At the moment, there is no known case of a Catalan, Valencian, or island student who does not know Spanish. Nor any child from Burjassot or Felanitx who suddenly started talking as if he were from Tremp or the Sants neighborhood.
A few days ago, the High Court of Justice (TSJC) missed no opportunity to order twelve Catalan schools to maintain the absurd 25% Spanish language requirement. Since acting against a language (and even more so: against the right to study in one's own language) has no pedagogical meaning or positive consequences for society as a whole, but is instead a clear form of aggression, we must conclude that the motivation (and funding) is the pure and simple conviction of the nationalist who hates the language of others. Years pass, generations pass, and they never get out of it.
