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.