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| One of several Spanish language tornado warnings issued Tuesday by the National Weather Service office in Houston. Bigoted and racist snowflakes sometime object to these, as they insist everything be in English |
That's a common and good practice at many NWS offices, as it's best to relay warnings in ways that are best understood by everyone. After all, the primary language of at least 300,000 Indiana residents is Spanish.
But racists always crawl out from under rocks everywhere, including in Indiana. Moore's post received a bunch of racist and bigoted replies because he had the temerity to post some of his weather warnings in Spanish. Do note his winter storm warnings were obviously also posted in English.
Moore, sadly, ended up having to post this message to Facebook. It read in part:
"Unfortunately, there have been a lot of racists comments on our posts because they are not in English. Racism and bigotry will not be tolerated on this page and your comments will be removed immediately. Thank you for your cooperation and kindness."
Racists and bigots have to whine about everything, don't they? They're such snowflakes, and the last thing Indianapolis needs today is more snowflakes.
Just the tiniest exposure to the sound of someone speaking in Spanish gets their panties in a knot because....I don't know. They clutch their pearls over a Spanish-language weather forecast because seeing "Aviso de tormenta invierno" gives them the vapors.
I can just see the racists hyperventilating now. "They'll ban English language weather warnings!" The (racist slur here) want us to die in storms. It's an evil leftist plot!
Yeah, I'm sure George Soros, Bill Gates and Tom Hanks are all in on this.
It's not exactly difficult to ignore Spanish-language weather warnings if you don't like them. It's super, super easy to access English language weather forecasts. Don't bigots have anything else to worry about than a Hispanic person receiving a weather forecast in Spanish?
To racists, it's a crime against humanity if a Hispanic person is convinced by a Spanish language weather warning not to go out driving in a blinding Indiana snowstorm. Maybe the bigots want our Hispanic friends to drive off into a blizzard and die? Who knows?
Moore further unloaded about this idiots on Twitter: "Spent much of my shift tonight translating winter weather graphics into Spanish. Well the racist comments and bigotry got so bad I had make this PSA about how we won't tolerate any of that on our page. Just sad. So much hate" He included an angry face emoji and hashtag #peoplesuck.
They sure do suck!
The bigot butt hurt continued after Moore posted his message rightfully demanding an end to racist messages on his (accurate!) weather forecast.
As IndyStar pointed out, the messages continued.
"'Well since you don't believe English is the United States language then I guess I'll unfollow this page,' Bill Benedict announced in his response.
The weather service offices retort, 'Go right ahead Bill! Adios amigo,'"
The NWS Indianapolis "adios amigo" was definitely the right touch.
To be fair, Moore got a lot of feedback on Facebook and Twitter from lots of people who appreciated him calling out the racists.
Meteorologist Caleb Taylor at WPTA in Fort Wayne, Indiana declared that "Adios amigo" exchange "my favorite thing on the internet today. Shout out to @NWSIndianapolis for posting posting in Spanish and clapping back"
Moore also, thankfully, got a boatload of comments on Twitter thanking him for posting weather information in two languages and making smacking the racists down. I know it sometimes isn't a great idea to respond to social media trolls, but I think it's good to call them out, as Moore did.
Bigots whining about meteorologists trying to broadcast weather warnings in Spanish isn't a new thing. Unfortunately, it crops up from time to time.
KFOR meteorologist Emily Sutton in Oklahoma City a couple years ago used a Spanish translator during a report on one of Oklahoma's many weather emergencies.
A wacko with the delicious name Richard Weathers objected strenuously to this. And I quote:"I remind one and all this is the Untied (sic) States of America, I am offended that KFOR overtly shoved the American English aside ion favor of the foreign language presentation."
He then went on the usual rant about the southern border, invaders, Make America Great Again, blah, blah blah. I'm also unsure what the "Untied States of America" is.
Sutton, in response, pointed out that a dozen people died in a May, 2013 Oklahoma flood in part because there were language barriers and the victims hadn't understood flood warnings.
She concluded, "You will find that we are all humans. Be kind to each other. Don't be a Richard."
You see what she did there.
Sutton ended up getting the last laugh, too. A local Mexican restaurant was so happy with Sutton's take on all this that they offered her free food and margaritas for life.
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