The Super Bowl Halftime Show Was A Humiliation Ritual:
Americans were forced to sit through one of their biggest cultural events of the year in a language that is not theirs, surrounded by symbols of other, foreign places.
The Super Bowl is supposed to be one of the cultural cornerstones in American life that still belongs to Americans. There are only a handful of days each year when most of the country pauses and gathers around the same screen to participate in something recognizably ours. It’s a shared experience — rooted in common language and culture and tradition. Which is why the Super Bowl half time show this year was a clear display of pure contempt for America.
Football is not a global sport that just ended up in the United States. It was created right here at home in the 1880s by Walter Camp. It was a sport created by Americans, for Americans. The NFL remains overwhelmingly domestic both in its players and its fanbase. In other words, football isn’t some international pastime. It’s one of the last mass cultural institutions that is distinctly American.
Yet, this year’s halftime performance by Puerto Rican singer “Bad Bunny” was conducted almost entirely in Spanish. His songs celebrated Puerto Rican — not American — culture. At the end of his performance, he exited the stage followed by one American flag and several foreign flags, holding a football that read “We are all America” while a giant screen read “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” And, given his recent “F*ck ICE” comments at the Grammys, it’s clear the message of his performance was that defense of sovereignty and national culture and rejection of its replacement would be framed as hatred.
Americans were forced to sit through one of their biggest cultural events of the year in a language that is not theirs, surrounded by symbols of other, foreign places. The audience was not invited into a shared civic experience. Instead, they were required to bear witness to the replacement of their own culture.
This wasn’t accidental, either. While speaking in October, Bad Bunny, who has only Spanish-language songs, addressed Americans directly: “If you didn’t understand what I just said, you have four months to learn.” The burden wasn’t on the performer to meet or assimilate to the audience, but rather on the audience — Americans — to adapt to a foreign language or be left behind during their own cultural event. --->READ MORE HERE
The Super Bowl Halftime Show Was Literally About Erasing ‘America’
Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny ended his abysmal halftime performance by rattling off dozens of Latin American countries before holding up a football that read: “Together we are America.”
The move was praised by celebrities and leftists alike.
“That made me feel more proudly American than anything Kid Rock has ever done,” Kacey Musgraves said on X.
Robert Griffin III said that even though most people couldn’t understand a word of what Bad Bunny said, “it was iconic because you could feel the love of people and culture. Puerto Rican culture is American culture. Together we are America.”
Complex said on X: “Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show highlights unity with ‘Together, We are America.'”
Co-host of Scoop City, James Palmer, said “‘TOGETHER WE ARE AMERICA’ Bad Bunny for the win. Outstanding.”
Even former Republican Gov. John Kasich said “Love the halftime show which celebrates the wonderful Latino culture. Great pick and great show. Bad Bunny hit a grand slam home run!”
But Bad Bunny’s subversive message was obvious to anyone capable of critical thinking.
Bad Bunny wasn’t trying to make a feel-good statement about unity. He was making an inherently political claim that the left has been pushing for years, which is that the United States of America — colloquially known as America — isn’t for Americans and that national borders are arbitrary at best but illegitimate at worst.
By naming nearly the entire Western Hemisphere and declaring “We are America,” Bad Bunny was endorsing the idea that North, Central, and South America constitute a single political entity. The United States of America is not a country with a distinct identity, people, or history. Instead it’s just a piece of land inside a continent. If that’s true, then our borders mean nothing because we are all “American.” And if we are all “American,” then our distinct and unique American culture and our English language and our way of life is not something to be preserved, instead it’s something to be molded and reshaped by an ever-changing medley of foreigners and their culture and language and customs. --->READ MORE HERE
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