CVD is Ruining Wales

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/10/dont-call-it-wales.html.
For several years I have been a member of numerous Welsh history and culture Facebook groups and I've just decided to leave them all. This is because they are all infected with a very toxic mindset that they regurgitate and over and over again. I've also decided to write a follow-up article following the above one and particularly focus on the community council in Gwynedd who want qualification for a council house to be limited to those who speak the Welsh language. These people need to get over themselves! They're not supermen or gods; they just speak a language. I know how they will justify it; they "just want to keep the language going!" Exactly what scenario would have to take place in their minds for Welsh not to be kept going? According to the census of 2021, 538,000 people in Wales can speak Welsh. There is a lot of misinformation by those who believe in the CVD- Celtic Victimhood Delusion because, for them, over half a million is considered to be the language at death's door, as it has been in several periods of the past. There are also numerous Welsh speakers abroad; about 200,000 in England (including me although I'm pretty rusty following my long banishment), 5000 in Argentina, 30,000 in Chile, 5000 in the United States, about 1,700 in Australia and 3,800 in Canada. This means Welsh qualifies under the conditions of UNESCO as not endangered. Welsh probably has more speakers now than it ever has before during its entire fifteen hundred year history. It's about as likely to die out as Swedish or Portuguese. So why all this paranoia? I think because a sense of victimhood is very addictive. I've noticed the same thing with wokies and feminists. For some people, being hard-done-by is central to their identity and even, in a strange way, their self-esteem. It is an extremely destructive emotion, partly because it can lead to the narcissism practiced by the Botwnnog council. It can justify all kinds of cruel, antisocial and discriminatory behaviour that would be unthinkable to other people. Also it has caused the Welsh people to lower the drawbridge to Brussels, as I explain in the background publications. According to popular Welsh history, schoolchildren who spoke Welsh in class a hundred or so years ago were punished by having a "Welsh-not" put on them as a form of humiliation, like a dunce's hat. This was a wooden letter W hung round their necks as a pendant. According to John Davies, one of Wales most celebrated historians, this penalty was not practiced as often as many CVD cultists would have you believe. Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2903800.

Today we have a very real "English not", and this manifests clearly in the entitlement of those council members who actually believe it's okay for them to dictate public housing policy in order to exclude human beings they consider unworthy. This is essentially forcing people to learn Welsh, not encouraging them through positive incentives. Some are monoglot Anglophones who are born in Wales and have lived there their whole lives and who suddenly find themselves being told "you're not really Welsh!" because they can't speak the language. Now they might even be denied a home to live in. It feels like my speculative novel Evan's Land is coming true, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2021/02/evans-land-audio-book.html. The basis of the CVD is a denial of what Neil Oliver calls "malinformation". This is information that it true, but everybody has to pretend it's not true because its absence serves some psycho-political agenda. Source: https://www.gbnews.com/opinion/neil-oliver-words-matter-the-truth. The basis of the CVD is a very widely held belief, virtually a truism, that the Welsh people, along with the Scots, Cornish and Irish, are the direct and sole descendants of the Celts, the name given to the population of the British Isles at the beginning of history. Of course, everybody knows they have languages descended from Celtic, but it goes deeper than that; they have also inherited the exclusive legacy of the Celts, racially and culturally. The English are all descended from the Anglo-Saxons who invaded Britain in the early middle ages. They drove inland like Orcs, slashing and burning their way brutally through the peaceful Hobbit-like Celtic lands. From that moment onwards, both the Welsh and English have practiced a stringent anti-miscegenation policy, refusing to marry those of the other side, so that in today's world the English are a totally different race of people and England has no cultural influence at all from the Celtic world. No Englishman has the right to call himself a Celt and no Welshman has a single drop of English blood... Everything I have just written above is utter nonsense. In the background links I provide full details, but it is this nonsense that so many of us think it true and it is ruining our country. This phantom menace has weakened us against very real hostile forces. Frankly speaking, we need a kick up the arse before it's too late!
See here for more background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2019/10/brexit-portal.html.