Holy hell.

[conuly]

I'm wandering around LiveJournal looking for bookish icons so that I can ask the creators to crosspost to book_icons and thus expand our repetoire. Not that we need new posters so much, but. (Incidentally, if you can think of any authors with large fan bases whom I may have missed, please tell me)

And that's how I found this. The person who started that thread shouldn't've picked the fight, but.... *stares*

Comments

[leora.livejournal.com]

It's not. Early exposure, even in low doses, can teach the child the sounds of the language. Without that, later exposure will pretty much at best result in a fluent speaker marked with an accent for life. This gives the child a better chance of learning the language later and being able to pronounce it properly.

I just liked the "America belongs to Americans"... uh, why? Because a bunch of Europeans pretty much succeeded in genocide... that gives us some moral claim to the land and to keep others out? Or does it only do so if they don't successfully kill us off?

[conuly]

How about "the lands we stole from Mexico under Polk belong to the Mexicans, so hands off!"

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

"The lands we slew the Natives for, so we could claim it for ONLY the descendants of the first few decades' wave of Europeans...."

I don't see how the person who got into that crap can justify her own ancestors as immigrants when she's so adamant about "America is for Americans."

Just...BOGGLING.