You do realize that if we go far enough down the family tree, *every* US citizen except natives has a "homeland" other than the US? Plaza's homeland is the US, and it would be just as silly to call Donald Trump's homeland Germany as calling Plaza's Puerto Rico. She never lived there and never left, so whoever you're referring to, it cannot be Plaza, and it cannot be Lopez either, who was born in New York.
Also, nowhere did Plaza say that Puerto Rico is "great," so you're clearly strawmanning. One can be proud of the country one's parents come from (this could be part of a concept known as "honoring your family roots," which you surely are in favor of) and still decide to live in the country one has grown up in, yet also feel the need to defend said country against remarks one considers unjust. I struggle to see what is so difficult to grasp here.
Let's say your parents came from Poland, and a work colleague would make derogatory comments about Poland—would you let those fly? Because that's what you're demanding of Plaza here.
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Oblivioid (1515)
2 months ago
You keep distracting, and obviously are unable to answer. You are continuously pointing out that these actors aren't even from their declared homeland in the first place, only highlighting just how phony all the outrage over this one joke is.
My family was from Ireland, yes I can take an Irish joke, there are plenty, in fact it would be like getting all upset if someone said Ireland was a dreary drunken mess. It's ok to make cultural jokes, it always has been, we can poke fun at each other.
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pzogel (187)
2 months ago
Claiming that it's okay to make cultural jokes and suggesting to others to "go back where they came from" if they don't agree with what you consider decent or funny are two very different things. You still haven't answered my question where you'd want these "LatinX" people to go "back" to, considering they never were in those countries in the first place.
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