It’s secure to imagine that one movie star has already cursed comic Tony Hinchcliffe’s household and is watching “as misfortune follows his bloodline for the next seven generations.”
“I just wanted to very quickly respond to the racist joke that was made at that Trump rally about Puerto Rico, where most of my family is from,” Plaza stated on stage on the WSJ Journal Innovator Awards in New York. “Thankfully, my sweet abuelita wasn’t here to hear that disgusting remark.” Plaza went on to say that if her grandmother was alive in the present day, she imagines that Abuelita would inform the comic 5 epic phrases: “‘Tony Hinchcliffe, go fuck yourself.’”
Totally conscious that this comment would probably make headlines — and was made at a Wall Road Journal occasion — Plaza added:
“And yes, the Wall Street Journal can quote me on that.”
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When a clip of Plaza’s remarks made its means onto X, previously Twitter, Tuesday night time, one person identified that in 2020, the “Parks and Recreation” alum additionally made a joke about Puerto Rico throughout her opening monologue on the thirty fifth Movie Unbiased Spirit Awards “that wasn’t punching down.”
Within the monologue, Plaza factors out fellow Puerto Rican Jennifer Lopez, who was sitting within the viewers and stated:
“You know, Jennifer Lopez and I are both super hot Puerto Ricans. I mention that because Puerto Rico is kind of like an independent film, you know? It’s beautiful, not enough people have seen it and its financing is always falling through.”
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Plaza is not at all the one noteworthy Puerto Rican who was disgusted by Hinchcliffe’s racist and lazy joke — and Trump’s hateful rhetoric. Lopez, Ricky Martin, Unhealthy Bunny and Sunny Hostin made their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris public quickly after Trump’s MSG rally.
El Nuevo Día, the biggest newspaper in Puerto Rico, additionally urged its roughly 5 million Puerto Ricans residing within the mainland U.S. to vote for Harris Tuesday.
However maybe Roberto O. González Nieves — the archbishop of San Juan, Puerto Rico — referred to as out the joke greatest in a Fb publish revealed Monday.
“I enjoy a good joke. However, humor has its limits. It should not insult or denigrate the dignity and sacredness of people. Hinchcliffe’s remarks do not only provoke sinister laughter but hatred,” González Nieves wrote.
“It is not sufficient for your campaign to apologize,” the archbishop added on to Trump. “It is important that you, personally, apologize for these comments.”
