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The main thing I've learned from the half time show discourse is that a significant number of people still do not seem to fully comprehend that Puerto Rico is a part of the US and has been for over a hundred years.
Even your linked comment seems to fail at this. "Hispanic people should be more outraged than Americans". These Hispanic people are Americans because Puerto Ricans are American! They are not a different group.
He is a famous Puerto Rican celebrity, Puerto Rico is a part of the US, he is an American celebrity. And they've been part of the country since 1898, if there's some "replacement" of Puerto Ricans it was planned long long ago since McKinley.
This is also of course the result of acquiring new territories and not fully incorporating them into the rest of the system. If the US wants an expansive empire that takes over parts of South America, Greenland and Canada, which Trump seems to constantly be posturing towards, then we're gonna end up with spanish speakers, greenlandic and danish speakers, French speakers, and etc etc other languages within our borders. If Puerto Rico is part of the replacement then you should be really really worried about the president's plans with Venezuela and Gaza
Sorry Bad Bunny is not American. He has zero American values. He does not speak English. A technicality of a treaty giving you citizenship does not make you American.
Though as Puerto Rican he has no duty to assimilate since it was acquired land.
He literally is, sorry.
If American values was necessary, then the anti capitalist and anti constitution views of the modern Republican party would be immediately disqualifying.
What would be wrong in your view with stripping American citizenship from millions of people?
Considering we didn't strip American citizenship for the literal traitors of the civil war I would say one reason is that we just set a very very high bar for this already. In fact people to this day continue to openly support the traitors and we don't suppress them.
That doesn't really answer the question as I asked it but answers a different question entirely
I gave you a reason, we have a preexisting insanely high bar for stripping citizenship. What reasons do you have to tear down chesterston fence and break the precedent?
chesterton's fence refers to a fence we don't know why was put up somewhere and has existed as a tradition for a long time
we do know when and why the pre-existing fence was constructed; in order to cement recent large-scale immigration of commies and other leftists in the aftermath of WW2
it's not some long-held tradition from the days of yore constructed for mysterious purposes
The main denaturalizations US history are pretty much entirely of three categories.
I think we can all agree that "Being puerto rican and singing at the super bowl in Spanish" is not anywhere close to that. That would be a huge fence tear down with an unconvincing argument of "but he triggered me"
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