{"id":37402,"date":"2019-07-18T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37402"},"modified":"2019-07-17T08:43:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T12:43:28","slug":"qotd-they-might-speak-english-but-they-dont-speak-western","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/07\/18\/qotd-they-might-speak-english-but-they-dont-speak-western\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: “They might speak English, but they don’t speak Western”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>[Responding to a photo of a protest sign labelled “Dumbledore wouldn’t let this happen<\/a>“] I swear, it’s all you ever see from them.<\/p>\n

But something happened to me last night, I had a kind of realization. It suddenly hit me WHY that is. <\/p>\n

It’s because Harry Potter is literally all they collectively know.<\/p>\n

Schools don’t teach history anymore.
\nThey no longer teach the canon of Western literature.
\nThey certainly don’t teach the Bible.<\/p>\n

So Millennials literally have no points of common reference. It’s not that they all just want to look like complete morons by infantilizing their political metaphor to the level of a children’s book, it’s that they have no other choice<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

They’re literally bereft of the allegorical language of the West. I’m sure there’s some Harry Potter monster analogy I could use to explain it to them, how it’s like monsters have come along and literally stolen their ability to speak, their common language, and their birthright.<\/p>\n

They can no longer express or understand the set of references we have from our past, our most prized stories, and our culture’s religious quotations. They can’t do Shakespeare, Milton, or even Mark Twain because they’ve never learned any of these while they were being taught Indonesian multicultural dancing and given participation awards. They don’t know what happened at Hastings in 1066, at Runnymede in 1215, or even at Sarajevo in 28th June 1914, because they were being given feminist diversity training instead of learning the history of their civilization. They certainly don’t know what “the least of these” refers to or where it comes from, as a recent event with a White House staffer<\/a> proved. <\/p>\n

They’ve lost the entire allegorical language of the West. They might speak English, but they don’t speak Western. To them, it’s like a foreign, dead, alien language. A set of stories they do not know. <\/p>\n

RPGPundit, “Harry Potter and the way Millennial Leftists Don’t Even Speak Western Anymore”, The RPGPundit<\/em><\/a>, 2017-02-02.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Responding to a photo of a protest sign labelled “Dumbledore wouldn’t let this happen“] I swear, it’s all you ever see from them. But something happened to me last night, I had a kind of realization. It suddenly hit me WHY that is. It’s because Harry Potter is literally all they collectively know. Schools don’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,79,7,28,53,41,13],"tags":[262,1137,400,956,720,85],"class_list":["post-37402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-education","category-history","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-culture","tag-harrypotter","tag-language","tag-millennials","tag-protest","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Jg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49696,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37402\/revisions\/49696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}