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This dingbat actually taped this herself and posted it online. Gotta love it.
It didn't take long from the time she posted this filth for people to contact the radio station she worked for and she got a ticket to the unemployment line.
[link:https://www.instagram.com/tv/CCg_MgJHx7e/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet|
Nevilledog
(51,080 posts)fucking on real
stopdiggin
(11,296 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Bettie
(16,092 posts)I have zero sympathy for these awful people being awful and losing their jobs because of how awful they are.
JI7
(89,247 posts)english and hiring brown people ? she complains about communism and wants the fucking Governor to do somethign about a private company because they spoke spanish ?
And then her outrage over a black man calling her out on her bs . only response she had was anger over him wearing a mask.
Chili
(1,725 posts)PatSeg
(47,410 posts)is communism. I think she was just trying to get attention by acting outraged, maybe publicity for her talk show. Oh well, she did the attention of her employers. Not a great time to be unemployed, especially if you are an older white woman, who also happens to be a known racist.
Chili
(1,725 posts)... and she called them Communist because... they were speaking Spanish??? And then the black guy intervenes - because he's trying to eat his lunch in peace across the street! - and she goes racist on him.
Good Lord!
tblue37
(65,336 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Thank you to "Karen's" company!
Demovictory9
(32,449 posts)Quixote1818
(28,929 posts)onetexan
(13,036 posts)And encouraged. Here these racist people, many of whom possess subpar english, disparage others for displaying their superior linguistics skills. What gives?
moonscape
(4,673 posts)see what has happened to their country
onetexan
(13,036 posts)My uncle, an academic, is fluent in 7 languages. I'm fluent in 2 & conversational in 1. It's wonderful to be able to be multilingual.
moonscape
(4,673 posts)after escaping at the end of WWII. My grandfather and uncle spoke 11! Maybe 8 of them fluently, the others conversationally enough.
So yes, being European was the factor in their case.
mercuryblues
(14,530 posts)conversational in?
onetexan
(13,036 posts)tblue37
(65,336 posts)Skittles
(153,150 posts)it's on my, er, "bucket list"....when I retire I am going to learn to speak Spanish!
onetexan
(13,036 posts)Our older kiddo is fluent in Spanish & other one in Japanese. Both majored in their respective second languages & the baby girl is using it in her budding career.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)I expect to use something like Babble?
onetexan
(13,036 posts)and a couple of books, one for medical professionals & one for conversational Spanish.
He said the CD's are helping & the medical terms book is very helping, and he's trying to practice speaking more with one of his bilingual assistants. Other than that he's not really putting alot of effort into it, otherwise he'd be much further along LOL.
OK thanks for the tips....I have always wanted to be bilingual - I see it as an asset! Also, for people who constantly scream about FREEDON, MAGAts sure don't believe in freedom to speak in whatever language you like.
Maraya1969
(22,478 posts)And the US has no national language.
onetexan
(13,036 posts)Here in TX i often see the kids translating for their parents at supermarkets, doctor offices, etc. It impresses me alot the kids have taken on their parents' languages so well.
Re: Puerto Rico, my God that island is beautiful. PR & DC need to be elevated to statehood. These are our American brothers & sisters and it's high time the country treats them with all the rights deserving as American citizens.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)my Brit mum lived in America for decades; when people said they loved her accent she'd say, "I'm speaking English; YOU have an accent."
Iggo
(47,549 posts)niyad
(113,272 posts)It makes me a little crazy, coming from a background of multiple languages, not just at home, but everywhere around me, to see people freaking because someone is speaking another language. Hell, these mouth-breathers can barely understand anyone who speaks English above grade-school level.
brush
(53,769 posts)They always been around but cell phone videos are exposing how many of these racist, busybody, white women are out there trying to assert their power over people of color.
It was under the radar for years, except for the people they directly harmed of course.
Upthevibe
(8,038 posts)Those guys are minding their own business just doing their work. She's DISPICABLE! I think there needs to be some laws for public harassment....This is heartbreaking
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)she can't hurt others...
chillfactor
(7,574 posts)so no idea what the instagram showed
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)Berated workers for no reason other than they were speaking Spanish on a sidewalk job in front of the radio station in New Hampshire. Thought the governor needed to be called. Then naturally she upped the racist ante by saying black man and brown man after ridiculing the black man for wearing a mask.
Zambero
(8,964 posts)This is hateful intolerance and authoritarianism at its worst. Fortunately, this act of manifest stupidity included a self-induced online posting of her insufferable rant, providing her employer with every reason to give her the heave-ho. Personally engineered career suicide by the numbers!
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)Apparently her radio show and social media accounts, plus YouTube channel, are designed around pure hate. This will make her a celebrity in that world. Somebody will pick her up, even if it's after the election. This is a lot different than someone who loses an accounting job, or whatever.
In the meantime she has yanked all her tweets
Renew Deal
(81,856 posts)I would have told her that they are illegal. I picked them and their maple trees up at the Canadian border. Its a Canadian plot to subvert America with Canadian Communist trees.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Renew Deal
(81,856 posts)Remember when they wanted to boycott Taco Bell because Spain elected a socialist?
Might as well throw in that the Spanish they are speaking is really French, in code.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)what a hateful, ugly woman
where do people get the time to worry about other people like this
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It's like they leave their homes every morning just looking for things to be pissed off about. What a sad way to live!
Skittles
(153,150 posts)and I don't even have kids!
struggle4progress
(118,280 posts)Aussie105
(5,383 posts)Do, please do, shut the FK up!
Just because your Emperor is a racist ranter and COVID denier, and is temporarily getting away with it, doesn't mean you can do the same.
So please, Karens, be quiet, look the other way when your racist sensibilities are offended, be nice, and keep your jobs. Not hard, is it?
rpannier
(24,329 posts)And she didn't seem to see anything wrong with her behavior
NBachers
(17,107 posts)scardycat
(169 posts)dalton99a
(81,455 posts)Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Lol.
raccoon
(31,110 posts)The stupid and arrogance is strong in that one.
Caliman73
(11,730 posts)She is ignorant and seemingly unintelligent, yet loudly and confidently describing the situation. She mentions "communism" in her criticism of a private company, likely hired through a municipal bidding processes which, if done correctly, hires the best company for the lowest possible price (exactly what the market economy, the opposite of communism, would dictate). She screams at the work crew because the foreman is giving directives in Spanish. She asserts, "Are we in America?" when criticizing the speaking of Spanish, as if there is legal and official language that people are dictated to speak.
Just a wonderful display of the effect. The less you know and understand about a situation, the greater your confidence in your point of view is.
phylny
(8,379 posts)saw speaking multiple languages as a sign of a good education. George Washington had a poor education and only spoke English.
Una de mis metas en la vida es hablar español con fluidez.
dalton99a
(81,455 posts)MineralMan
(146,287 posts)Then she'd be able to speak those languages when she encounters people who are more comfortable speaking the first language they learned.
I mean, she's going to have some spare time, now that she has lost her job, right? She should use that time to learn another language, I think.
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)I don't even know what to say any more.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Voltaire2
(13,017 posts)doing work for the city of Nashua fixing up our downtown Main Street to be more appealing to pedestrians in order to improve foot traffic and business opportunities for local merchants.
Wow, I didnt know communism did stuff like this. Gotta go join the communist party now. Brb.
KWR65
(1,098 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)ROFL does she think communism is when tax money is spent and the people doing the work speak Spanish?
Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)... would have some kind of working understanding of communism. Maybe she does, but actual communism doesnt fit her outrage agenda?
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,668 posts)glad she did it, but tell us how you really feel. Consequences
Goodheart
(5,321 posts)That's what makes them angry.
Goodheart
(5,321 posts)"Speak Eeenglish." Good lord. Where's she from?
onetexan
(13,036 posts)Ugly inside & out
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)Griffin, thinking she's some kind of language vigilante.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)raging fucking idiot, on top of being a racist. They have other taxes, but they are one of the lowest taxed states in the union. You have to pay taxes on interest and dividends (which, btw will be phased out by 2022), and a sales tax, but there is no income tax.
I don't know what she's whining about. I would consider myself pretty lucky to get off without a state income tax. What a whiny effing beyotch.
BigDemVoter
(4,149 posts)For one, there is NO official language for the USA-- And English is certainly NOT the one. . . . Dumb asshole.