@tripu Oh wow, i didn’t hear of this for a long time. The separation was beat down, now the leaders of those oppressed walk free? Or was that separate?
It’s complicated.
My take: that particular attempt at secession didn’t succeed, but separatists are anything but sitting idle: they’re constantly pressing to gain privileges, lying, distorting public opinion, and frankly breaking the law every so often.
Nobody’s “oppressed” in #Catalonia.
The criminal separatist leaders are being handled exquisitely well by the government: they are raised to the level of legitimate political interlocutors, some of them were pardoned, and now a few others will see their sentences reduced by virtue of this change in the law.
It’s all very disgusting, IMHO.
@tripu So, if there are criminal activities: ist that meant as a general circumstance or specifically connected to the attempt at secession?
The media here did not bring any stories about secessionists (in connection to the vote) doing anything illegal, yet there were some disgusting violent acts by the spanish side reported.
Sure, the media is biased, but usually on the side of EU-gouvernments.
So, would you say the reporting was all lies here?
@tripu Interesting read.
My memories are coming back, i think i heard something about Spain removing Catalan from the official documents. (As opposed to the claims about forbidding culture, which are of course absurd)
Do you have a direct (not through media, i.e. visit catalan gouvernment websited or through a friend there) way to check if official documents are currently available in Catalan? That would be very interesting to know.
Thank you for the article!
P.S. you might want to screenshot those Tweets, who knows how long the site stays up…
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I’m glad you liked it!
I usually trust that high-profile Twitter accounts will be somehow always preserved for posterity.
afaik, Catalan is widely used by public administrations and by private media companies. Whoever is accusing the central government of suppressing the Catalan language has the onus to prove it, I’d say. I don’t know one way or another. My own experience visiting Barcelona etc tells me that most captions, documents, etc are in both Spanish and Catalan. In fact, sometimes they’re in English and in Catalan — and not in Spanish.