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Tom Schecter's avatar

It would be the tiniest bit funny if we hadn’t managed to allow them to put the whole damn world at risk.

Actually, no. It would still be purely infuriating. Fuck these vicious assholes and their syphilis-incarnate ringleader.

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Michael Roberts's avatar

OK, so, I've lived in PR about half my adult life now, and here's the thing. Puerto Ricans largely don't care about politics. I mean, they *care* (a lot) but there's a blanket assumption that voting is just kind of beside the point and what's even the point?

But the key thing here is that insulting Puerto RIcans just doesn't mostly make them mad. There's basically nothing you can say about Puerto Ricans as an ethnic group that lots of Puerto Ricans won't vocally agree with, it's kind of a colonialism inferiority complex thing

But *the island* is basically Shangri-La. The *island* is the absolute soul of Puerto Ricanness. This "joke" hits Puerto Ricans like an electric shock to a part of the body they forgot they had. And it makes a lot of them living in places where they get to vote that maybe it wouldn't be a terrible thing to just get in the fucking car next Tuesday and make that fucker pay, and then they start remembering the paper towels and all that shit.

Latinos know Trump hates them. That's just plain not news. But for Puerto Ricans, this incident was a wakeup call hammered right into their neocortex.

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