Now that the American electorate has embraced all its racial and ethnic phobias it hasn't taken long for the right wing media machine to exploit them. The latest example comes from one, Gina Louden, PhD. She goes by the moniker, Dr. Gina during her various media appearances. (I blame my old Jr. High classmate, Phil McGraw for all this Doctor/first name shit.) Louden's primary media residence is a far right cable TV network, Real America's Voice. where she hosts, "Dr. Gina Prime Time."
The other day she let her audience in on what she thought of the recent movie release, "Wicked." It is a film adaptation of a successful Broadway musical and a prequel of sorts to the, "Wizard of Oz." It' also happens to be a box office smash which Gina Louden's career is not. (Oh, please. Will everyone who has ever heard of, "Dr. Gina Prime Time," or the network, "Real America's Voices," raise their hands now.)
Louden told her viewers, "I saw it, but I was very excited at the idea of seeing the interrelation of this. But I should have known it's Holly-weird. I should have known they'd try to make it woke in the ways they could think of. Let's just start with the fact that they have Ariana Grande, who is obviously Hispanic playing a ditzy blonde white really villain when it comes right down to it, for this particular movie. The racism and the racial appropriation, I just thought was offensive, frankly."
First things first. Now we know why Gina Louden's gig is on a place called, "Real America's Voices." Eloquence is not her strong point. In fact, it appears the English language in any form isn't either. Be that as it is, she did touch on a pillar of America's modern racist theology. That white Americans are the victims in the age of wokism. That a vast cabal of liberal elites are out to obliterate white culture--whatever that might be. In other words, the fears and racism of white people are justified because The Others are out to get them. And while that list of Others is a really long one, suffice it to say we can generally boil it down to everyone who didn't vote for Donald J. Trump.
But we digress. It didn't take long for the responses to come flooding in. Many pointed out that, as the fans of Ariana Grande (full name, Ariana Grande-Butera) already knew, the singer/songwriter/actress isn't, "obviously Hispanic," at all. She was born in Boca Raton, FL and she, her parents, and her brother are all Italian-American. Her ancestors were Sicilian and Abruzzese. That puts her family a little over 1,700 miles away from Spain, the nearest, "Hispanic," outpost.
Normally an oops would be appropriate, however it's highly doubtful Gina Loudon is interested in such details. Hell, she might have even known Ariana Grande is of Italian descent. What we do know for sure is Louden was convinced her audience didn't know. And that's what counts. Grande sounds Hispanic to the average tone-deaf American ear and those fuckers are pouring across the border willy=nilly. They are everywhere and they are, as Donald Trump says, poisoning the blood of the nation.
Plenty of people have spoken about Gina Louden's racial and ethnic stupidity. But, since she's MAGA through and through she will never acknowledge her mistake, at least not publicly. She will just move on to the next perceived grievance her audience wants to use as an excuse to revel in their racism. The yokels who watch her show will never see any news which shows how wrong Louden was and even if they did they'll just write it off as more woke lies.
That's where the nation is at now. It doesn't matter if Ariana Grande is Italian, or not. What matters is what the Gina Loudens of the MAGA world say she is.
No, it doesn't make any sense, but at this moment it is enough to make me thankful my last name ends in a consonant.
12-3-24
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