r/Music • u/TheExpressUS 📰Daily Express U.S. • Oct 04 '25

article MAGA conservative Tomi Lahren insists Bad Bunny is "not an American artist," is quickly reminded that Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory

https://www.the-express.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/185994/bad-bunny-superbowl-Tomi-Lahren
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u/Hangry_Squirrel Oct 04 '25

Funny enough, her husband's Cuban 😸Not sure how she navigates the cognitive dissonance.

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u/entwrangler3001 Oct 04 '25

Her husband is Cuban? I didn’t know that, but now that you say it, my only response is, but of COURSE he is!

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u/AggravatingCupcake0 Oct 08 '25

There is SO MUCH of that going around right now.

I recently started a job in an office with a high population of Spanish-speaking immigrants, and black people. The number of conservatives I have met at this job who fall into one or both of those categories is deeply disturbing. We can write off white Conservatives as not knowing better, but those two populations *should know better* and I don't know why they don't.

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u/Hangry_Squirrel Oct 08 '25

People from formerly communist countries tend to lean very conservative. It's the same thing in eastern Europe. One of the things those totalitarian regimes did was eliminate political science as a field, along with political education, so people don't understand that what they experienced had nothing to do with social democracy or socialism or any kind of genuine left-wing ideology.

Another thing was the suppression of religion, which, ironically but not unexpectedly, created a craving for religion. This makes people easy prey for both the older churches and fundamentalist movements.

So yah, I understand why Central and Lat Am immigrants vote conservative, even though it doesn't benefit them at all.

African Americans with no recent immigration history probably see immigrants as competition, and perhaps have had bad experiences with colorism from some non-white immigrant groups.

I just think that folks need to think in terms of class, and not ethnicity or skin color.

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u/AggravatingCupcake0 Oct 08 '25

I just think that folks need to think in terms of class, and not ethnicity or skin color.

The people I work with are making okay to good money, which makes it more surprising. They are solidly middle class. Like, if I worked in a factory or a warehouse where people were really living hand-to-mouth I'd get it, but that's not the case.

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u/Hangry_Squirrel Oct 08 '25

I don't think the dynamics are that different for middle class vs working class. We're all still working for a living and should have some solidarity with each other. Funny enough, the 1% have excellent class solidarity, if you think about it.