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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHA, HA: 'Is anybody here illegal?': New Hampshire radio host loses her show after berating workers..
One thing that has a way of seriously triggering some far-right extremists is hearing a language other than English spoken publicly in the U.S. even during a conversation that they havent been asked to participate in. One such extremist is radio host Dianna Ploss, who lost her show at New Hampshires WSMN-AM after berating some landscapers for speaking Spanish on the job and asking if any of them were in the country illegally.
Many videos of abusers harassing Spanish speakers are posted online after someone who saw what was happening pulled out a smartphone and started filming. Ploss, however, wanted to make sure her audience saw what she was doing, and she live-streamed her rant against the landscapers on Facebook.
In a video, Ploss can be seen angrily telling the workers, Its English, English, English! Is anybody here illegal? Are these guys illegal? Whats the name of this company? .. Its America. Speak English!
When an African-American man asked Ploss why she was harassing the workers, she asked him why he was wearing a face mask. The man responded: because theres a global pandemic. And Ploss sarcastically responded, Really? OK. Hes a black man, and hes going to protect the brown man from this white woman whos practicing white privilege.After returning to the studio, Ploss asserted, on the air, that she didnt single the landscapers out because they were speaking Spanish and reminded listeners that she could be equally hateful if the language had been, for example, Russian.
https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/is-anybody-here-illegal-new-hampshire-radio-host-loses-her-show-after-berating-workers-for-speaking-spanish/
Many videos of abusers harassing Spanish speakers are posted online after someone who saw what was happening pulled out a smartphone and started filming. Ploss, however, wanted to make sure her audience saw what she was doing, and she live-streamed her rant against the landscapers on Facebook.
In a video, Ploss can be seen angrily telling the workers, Its English, English, English! Is anybody here illegal? Are these guys illegal? Whats the name of this company? .. Its America. Speak English!
When an African-American man asked Ploss why she was harassing the workers, she asked him why he was wearing a face mask. The man responded: because theres a global pandemic. And Ploss sarcastically responded, Really? OK. Hes a black man, and hes going to protect the brown man from this white woman whos practicing white privilege.After returning to the studio, Ploss asserted, on the air, that she didnt single the landscapers out because they were speaking Spanish and reminded listeners that she could be equally hateful if the language had been, for example, Russian.
https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/is-anybody-here-illegal-new-hampshire-radio-host-loses-her-show-after-berating-workers-for-speaking-spanish/
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HA, HA: 'Is anybody here illegal?': New Hampshire radio host loses her show after berating workers.. (Original Post)
demmiblue
Jul 2020
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CentralMass
(15,265 posts)1. She seems nice ;-)
DSandra
(999 posts)2. She doesn't even believe in the freedom of speech, what a good American she is...
Being from California, you grow up hearing people speak different languages around you. If someone has a problem with that, they have to look inside themselves rather than get angry at others.