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Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 09:28 AM Apr 2015

A kindergarten concert? What could go wrong?



What’s the best venue for your self-righteous, nativist ravings? If you answered “my 6-year-old’s school concert, of course,” then congratulations, fuckwit, everyone hates you.

On Thursday, just such a fuckwit was booted from a kindergarten performance in Perry, Iowa after loudly chanting, “English only, USA!” when the event’s Spanish interpreter began to speak. The audience’s reaction, which you can watch above, was immediate and unanimous.

Gawker



The man responsible for the disruption reportedly started bellowing the chant when a translator began repeating the event host's opening remarks in Spanish.

"I've never heard anything like that and it just hurt me really bad," Sara Benedict, whose son was in the concert, told KCCI-TV.

The concert was held by students from Perry Elementary School, which the Iowa Department of Education estimates has about a 50 percent Hispanic or Latino student population.

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A kindergarten concert? What could go wrong? (Original Post) Capt. Obvious Apr 2015 OP
I feel so sorry for that guy's kid. hunter Apr 2015 #1

hunter

(38,311 posts)
1. I feel so sorry for that guy's kid.
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 10:51 AM
Apr 2015

If he doesn't have a kid in the concert, then he's even creepier and somebody should be checking his mom's basement for a weapons cache and a white robe with a pointy hat.

I wonder what language his immigrant ancestors spoke? Even if some of them spoke "English" it's likely he wouldn't be able to understand the dialect.

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