was gonna put this in the tags but it got long so ah fuck it

The systematic and deliberate eradication of Scottish minority languages ie Scots and Gaelic - through lack of bilingual support, closing of Gaelic schools and/or forcing them to stop teaching it as a first language, etc. - is like a huge hot topic here, but of course people who aren’t from Scotland (specifically Americans™️) won’t fucking know any of this and just treat other people/languages like a funny fucking game