Hate crimes against Catalan

Anyone who lives in Catalonia and says they hate Catalan has a very easy solution to stop suffering: screw the country's countryside. Since no one is forced to come here, they can leave today whenever they want, and they'll rest, both they and we. They aren't many, but they make a lot of noise, especially when they work in public. And, of course, they make more noise than the thousands and thousands of people who learn, speak, and interact in Catalan.

We haven't had to suffer dictatorships and the"speak in Christian" So now, whoever comes along and demands that we address each other in Spanish or English, or that they allow themselves to say in a public place that they hate our language or our music, in the name of some behavioral disorder turned into multicultural ethnic supremacism that, of course, we have no reason to put up with.

In Catalonia, "no in Catalan" cannot exist in public spaces. The sociolinguist in all of us quickly identifies that a language without its own passport doesn't have the same respect as one that does because, in our mental organization, political borders are much more important than cultural ones. Especially when, as is the case with Catalan, a language coexists on the street with another with the power and legal protection of Spanish.

The business owners who allow this to happen bear a great deal of responsibility. But the government bears the greatest responsibility. Let's see if in the end it turns out that, along with a fair approach such as reporting and punishing all types of hate crimes, we don't think it's necessary to act against those who allow themselves to say in public that they hate us. If they don't learn to love, at least they should learn to respect. Because if they hate Catalan, they hate me. And the further away these kinds of people are, the better.