‘Is anybody here illegal?’: New Hampshire radio host loses her show after berating workers for speaking Spanish

One thing that has a way of seriously triggering some far-right extremists is hearing a language other than English spoken publicly in the U.S. — even during a conversation that they haven’t been asked to participate in. One such extremist is radio host Dianna Ploss, who lost her show at New Hampshire’s WSMN-AM after berating some landscapers for speaking Spanish on the job and asking if any of them were in the country illegally.

Many videos of abusers harassing Spanish speakers are  posted online after someone who saw what was happening pulled out a smartphone and started filming. Ploss, however, wanted to make sure her audience saw what she was doing, and she live-streamed her rant against the landscapers on Facebook.

In a video, Ploss can be seen angrily telling the workers, “It’s English, English, English! Is anybody here illegal? Are these guys illegal? What’s the name of this company?..... It’s America. Speak English!”

When an African-American man asked Ploss why she was “harassing” the workers, she asked him why he was wearing a face mask. The man responded: because “there’s a global pandemic.” And Ploss sarcastically responded, “Really? OK. He’s a black man, and he’s going to protect the brown man from this white woman who’s practicing white privilege.”After returning to the studio, Ploss asserted, on the air, that she didn’t single the landscapers out because they were speaking Spanish and reminded listeners that she could be equally hateful if the language had been, for example, Russian.

“If they were speaking Russian or they were speaking Chinese, I would have asked the same question…. I’m not stupido,” Ploss told listeners. “I can tell when somebody’s showing somebody because they can’t speak the language. What’s wrong with me asking them?”

After Ploss’ rant, more than 10,000 people signed an online petition asking WSMN to take her off the air — and they did. In an official statement, WSMN’s management said, “We at WSMN value freedom of speech, freedom of expression and assembly. We will not tolerate discrimination, racism or hatred.”

Ploss did not apologize after being called out. Instead, she doubled down on her racism in a video posted on her Facebook page, declaring, “Here’s what I have to say to those who have attacked me: blank you. You have not silenced Dianna Ploss. I’m not going away.” And not surprisingly, a sign promoting President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign could be seen in the background.

Watch the clip below: