Last week, a batshit racist trashbag in line at IHOP began screaming at a Latina mom minding her own business to “speak English!,” when said mom was simply having a conversation with her son, Carlos Vasquez. Latina mom straight up speaks English and, triumphantly, yelled back, “Shut up! You’re stupid!”
Potentially, it sounds funnier than it looks: the racist garbage can spews every cliché white supremacist “patriot” bon mots ever lobbed at anyone who dare speak in another language in the presence of “Real Americans.” In addition to “Speak English,” irate Garbaggioface makes some insane connection to “the Nazis” and “Castro,” as well as a confusing application of the “Go back to your own country” trope, in which Garbagehead spits, “GO BACK TO SPAIN!”
It’s fine to make light of in theory—especially because Trashbag more than resembles a tripping Donald Trump—but it’s actually really difficult to watch, especially when Vasquez’s mom starts crying while defending herself. “I speak English, too. I have a job in this country, you idiot. I clean office, I clean restroom. You idiot! Stupid!”
The frustrations of Vasquez’s mother are palpable, and of course, this is very likely not her first time at this rodeo—but clearly, she will not be shat upon by some bullshit-ass Trump-esque trashcan. It’s very upsetting—familiar to any one of us who are immigrants or who have immigrant parents or grandparents—but just as you’re about to cry, Carlos Vasquez comes in from the paint, very dryly:
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