Dr. Marina Del Rios was a guest speaker on Wednesday at Governor JB Pritzker’s daily briefing on COVID-19. She delivered her remarks first in Spanish, then in English, preceded by saying, “And now I will say my remarks in English for the Spanish deficient audience.”
You can see it on the video linked here.
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As if we’re the ones with the deficiencies. Ask Pritzker a few simple math questions, lol.
Mejor, preguntele a Pritzker cuanto pesa, jaja
Knowing different languages, if you can’t think properly, doesn’t do you much good, by the way, people.
Were in America you dumb broad not fucking mexico….!!!!
Dr. Del Rios was born in Puerto Rico so she’s a US citizen.
Next time you want to call someone a dumb broad look in the mirror while doing that.
Isn’t Puerto Rico part of Mexico?
No. ?
That’s right, it’s part of FL. That’s where 1/3rd of the island moved after the hurricane.
that’s cool ?
It’s We’re, not Were. ?
Polite correction:
It’s bad manners to cuss and call someone dumb and broad. ☹️
Madigan’s district is heavily populated by Hispanics meaning quite simply that this group of individuals has a lot to say with what everyone does in this state…hence this situation not only does not surprise me but expected it considerably time wise before now.
Madigan’s district has changed considerably over the years. It’s no longer irish working class and is now very hispanic. However, he isn’t getting the hispanic vote, in fact, he took steps to dilute the hispanic vote by recruiting fake hispanic candidates to run in the primary against his real hispanic opponent. apparently these ‘dirty tricks’ are all legal too, unfortunately:
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/madigan-lawyers-dirty-tricks-alleged-in-election-lawsuit-are-not-a-crime/
He relies on the same, IIRC, 15-20,000 votes every election from the same “vote blue no matter who madigan screws” who keep him in power of his district, and the state.
Madigan is 78. He’ll die, resign or be indicted one day. Then, a Hispanic will replace him. ?
ESL? Always goes first!??
ESL?
Many wonderful languages are spoken in Chicago. ?
In your not very humble opinion. Delivering official messages in Spanish first is nearly as goofy as the sign language charade we see when our “important” public figures speak to us. (Try a printed out sub-title, you PC-oriented wimps)
Yes, in my very humble opinion. Chicago is fortunate to have many cultures and languages, including German and Spanish. ???
I retired from a large (Fortune 50) company. Let’s reverse what she said. Had an executive speaker said, . . . . “I will now speak in Spanish for those who don’t understand English” HR would have required sensitivity training. It would have been only for show, but executive or not she would have been subject to it.
hey very cool if I wanted to speak spanish I’d go live in Mexico, maybe she should too?
Spanish is a wonderful, easy language to learn! ?
We’re in America —-English is the language. No other country caters to illegals and foreigners like us to the point of abasing it’s own people ?
The story was about an American physician. Nothing in this story was about illegals or foreigners. Maybe you’re on the wrong thread?
We are all waiting for the day Ms Rios leaves to return to a Spanish speaking country. Just remember Ms Rios – You didn’t build it.
The “official” language of America is English. Use it and don’t cater or grovel.
No the US doesn’t have an official language.
American English is defacto, but not official in the US. ?
First of all this is America we speak English here so thanks for being a racist and intolerant and intelligent deficient
Though I have nothing against other cultures and their language I do not go to their country and speaking my language and then talk down to them for not knowing my language or culture
Illegals are the new democrat voters (that snd the dead)
Nothing in this story was about illegals. It was about an American physician. Perhaps you are on the wrong thread?
I’m not interested in replacing my culture and language with theirs. If I wanted to do that, I would have gone to them. I don’t have anything against other ethnicities or cultures. But it’s funny, they come here and expect me to change to accommodate their love of socialism, political views and way of life. And the Democrats go right along with them, turning around an name calling me, simply because I want to retain my identity. Has anyone ever wondered why democrats can’t get enough people that already live here to agree with them, but must focus on illegals… Read more »
This is the result of all the racial, woke politics constantly peddled by liberals. It’s what’s taught in schools, to hate white people. My kids have this stuff about equity and systemic racism in all their classes now.
god forbid they actually learn anything useful
Despite her clinical emergency room experience, she has a epidemiology fellowship. Which makes her a moron. As further shown by her offensive, racist comment.
Yes, so she is more qualified than most of JBee’s crack squad… Or was that squad on crack… I forget…
Someone who thinks Puerto Rico is a part of Mexico shouldn’t be calling other people morons.
Puerto Rico being a part of Mexico is a joke. Puerto Ricans hate being mistaken for Mexican. Because most Puerto Ricans are totally racist against Mexicans. So when this lady calls me Spanish speaking deficient, in her own totally offensive racist way of chiding anglo americans, I have every right to her that I think Puerto Rico is part of Mexico, just to throw her offensive racist comments right back at her. Her little comment wasn’t just a microaggression, it was totally an offensive, insensitive and hateful macroaggression. Even if she meant it only as a dead panned joke.
Mexican Americans and Puerto Rican Americans support each other’s candidates and share some communities too. ? ?
Totally racist comment, I’m downvoting.
Mexicans and Puerto Ricans are united and I’m both.
Mexicanxs y Puertoriquenxs estan unidxs y yo soy ambxs.
I thought real Hispanics don’t do that “x” stuff.
Hispanicxs reales hacen las cosas x.
Real Hispanics do the x stuff.
UIC should reprimand her – that was a snippy, disgraceful comment.
All of a sudden there isn’t much outrage in Calif. over rapid deportation of border jumpers. I wonder why. Recyclable plastic bags have also suddenly gone out of fashion–in some stores you can’t even bring them inside.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u-s-deports-400-migrant-children-under-new-coronavirus-rules/ar-BB12hJpX
Also how many times did they say latinx in that presser? At least 100 times. Ridiculous. 99% of Latinos think that’s a dumb made up term.
Some Hispanic LGBT Activists say LatinX of the new, additional genders and sexual preferences. ?
Latinx isn’t even a real word and the spanish language officials in Spain refuse to acknowledge it as a real word and discourage its use. JB as a white man has no standing to force his degenerate values on the machismo latin culture. It’s culturally imperialistic, condescending and disgraceful. Impeach JB now.
Some say machismo is imperialistic. Latino/a/x is mostly used in the US. Spain can’t control those words. ?
I’d love to see Jay Bob impeached. If that happens, then Julianna Stratton takes over. ?
It doesn’t have anything to do with sexual orientation. It’s about genderism, another made up thing for people to be scolded over.
I stand corrected on sexual orientation. ?
There’s at four genders now: male, female, intersex/hermaphrodite and transgendered. ?
they need to stop the cultural appropriation… nobody not a single frickin native speaker talks like that… its the language, it has masculine and feminine words which mean different things… you can’t just make up a word and say that if you don’t follow it you’re a bigot, what the hell clown world are we living in, who gives these lunatics power to do these sorts of things?
Some people don’t identify as male or female. Some identify as both. ?
Latino, Latina and LatinX are terms used in the US to describe Americans of Hispanic and Brazilian (Latin American) descent. ?
Those terms aren’t used in Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal. The names of the various Latin American countries are used instead. ?
Because not only is latinx not a real world, it is extremely offensive, and racist.
Latinos, Latinas and LatinX aren’t a separate race. They are grouped by Spanish or Portuguese language and being an emigrant or descandant from Latin America. ?
nothing says cultural appropriation more than telling people how to speak their own language lol
Subconsciously revealing what she’d like to happen when Spanish speakers are in the majority? Hints of Quebec or various south-Asian republics long under a Russian bureaucracy? There’s something “off” about it, but it’s a bit like trying to describe a wine from reading the back of the bottle. Overbearing aroma with undertones of vindictiveness and resentment. Goes well with hemlock or arsenic.
100 years ago, immigrants to the US forced their children to learn english and often discouraged their kids from speaking their native language because they wanted them to assimilate. Now saying that immigrants should assimilate and learn english means you are a racist and bigot
It’s nothing to get upset about.?
As my email signature says “Welcome to the United States of America. Press 1 for English. Press 2 to disconnect until you learn to speak English.”
This is their country, Mark. You’re just living in it. Get used to it.