Editorial “English as our official language” opines:
“When we all speak the same language, we express our common ideals, concerns and goals. We can more easily work through our differences.”
WATCHDOG: How does the language one speaks impact “ideals, concerns and goals?” Is the editor suggesting that non-English people who make up the vast majority of the world are somehow lacking?
Do all Americans, conservatives and liberal, gay and straight, rich and poor, educated and not, indeed all share the same “ideals, concerns and goals?”
Are “ideals, concerns and goals” derivative of the language one speaks?
Or does the editor mean that the country goal should be just like Lancaster County, the repository of virtue?
Since the outset of the colonies, English has always been taught and immigrants have always sought to learn it. We don’t need a law, with all of its unforeseeable consequences, to tell us what has been done so well for centuries.
