This should be obvious to anyone with half a brain, but I'll explain my reasoning to those who are more than just intellectually challenged: https://twitter.com/mujaya_/status/1325481912501067778
1. English is a post-enlightenment language, meaning that it's affected heavily by Enlightenment thought, which emphasizes such things as "freedom", human "rights", "tolerance", "knowledge", and "equality".
2. These ideas are most emphasized in the United States, a post-revolutionary nation where there are the most English speakers in the world. Americans believe in "equality", in "rights", in "science", in "reason", in "race", in "freedom".
3. The discussion about race began when the founding fathers self-described as white in order to separate themselves from slaves and non-English Europeans. "White" slowly became a catch-all term to describe Europeans, and along with it, the idea of race has changed.
4. The aforementioned ideas can be interpreted to mean anything, but so far they have been interpreted, most especially by the American populace, to practically mean "doing whatever you want" including things like owning assault weapons and abortion.
5. We know this because America self-describes as the "land of the free and the home of the brave". Ask any American about the US and the first thing they'll tell you is that they're "free" (whatever that means). Public schools and popular media have beaten this idea into them.
6. Being "free" entails that people have certain "inalienable rights", meaning that such "rights" can and should be exercised whenever possible. This is accompanied by the culture of consumerism, where Americans are encouraged to do and say whatever they want because...
...they are special snowflakes, and because the "customer" is always right. This is part of the culture of free-market capitalism, which is characteristically American.
7. The culture of human rights places a pathological emphasis on the self. The cult of individuality and the cult of consumerism go hand in hand. Because people are "individuals", they have "human rights". Because people have "human rights" they can do whatever they please.
8. This reasoning has created a myriad of identitarian cults, including feminism, white supremacy, and gender theory, because people are encouraged to think about what makes them an individual, and because the most superficial thing about them is any of these characteristics.
9. Because Americans are taught to be so egotistical and narcissistic, this hubris becomes a part of their identity, and so their superficiality becomes an essential part of their "culture". They most identify with things that are arbitrary, which become like sub-cultures.
10. When Americans use their international and financial influence spread their "culture" and language, people who learn English become familiar with such ideas, and join the cult of identitarian consumption and hedonism. These are decadent values, and further societal collapse.
11. We know this because of the way the United States is currently going. Therefore, because of America, the English language is like a disease, that spreads "freedom" (hedonism and narcissism) and other enlightenment thought, which breeds societal collapse.
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