Vice president JD Vance doubled down on the one language supremacy in the US, saying in America, English is the only common language. In a post on X, JD said: “You need a common language, and in America, that language is English.”The row started when Vance, in October, said that it is ‘totally acceptable’ for people to want neighbours who ‘speak the same language’ and not want ‘strangers’ living next door: “‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.”The comments were made during Vance’s appearance on a right-wing podcast, where the topic of people of different cultural backgrounds living in the same neighbourhood was at play. The host, Miranda Devine, agreed with Vance that people from a particular culture prefer to coexist only with their own, and that anything else “creates division and hatred.”Now, Vance again doubled down on his language claim, saying it would become quite difficult if a common language were not present in the same neighbourhood. He gave an example: “How do you borrow a cup of sugar? Resolve disagreements? Have a nice conversation? Then the MAGA leader attacked the political left and claimed that they are focused too much on immigration. He said: “The far left became so deranged on immigration that they’re attacking people for wanting to be able to speak to their neighbours.”The vice president’s comments drew flak as he is married to a Hindu-Indian woman. Progressives point out the hypocrisy of JD in how he can marry a woman of colour and still hate mass migration, promoting the ‘America First’ promise. A family photo of Vance’s 2024 Thanksgiving went viral this month, which involved more than 20 brown people in the picture and enraged the GOP conservatives. Right-wing podcaster Nick Fuentus even mocked the image with racist, xenophobic comments.
