{"id":1837869,"date":"2023-02-07T09:35:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T14:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1837869"},"modified":"2023-02-07T09:38:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T14:38:42","slug":"viewers-reject-accusations-that-grammys-caption-singing-in-non-english-was-racist-this-offends-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/viewers-reject-accusations-that-grammys-caption-singing-in-non-english-was-racist-this-offends-no-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Viewers Reject Accusations That Grammys Caption \u2018Singing In Non-English\u2019 Was \u2018Racist\u2019: \u2018This Offends No One\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fviewers-reject-accusations-that-grammys-caption-singing-in-non-english-was-racist-this-offends-no-one%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1837869&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The government was attacked by the critics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/grammys\">Grammy Awards<\/a>, complaining that the closed captioning didn\u2019t switch seamlessly between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/language\">English<\/a> Spanish while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/music\">Artist<\/a> Bad Bunny was performing.<\/p>\n<p>However, many viewers saw it as an overreaction. Especially since 78% of Americans speak English at home and 13% report speaking Spanish. <a href=\"https:\/\/data.census.gov\/cedsci\/table?tid=ACSDP5Y2019.DP02\">census data<\/a> In 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It all began when the Puerto Rican performer, who is hugely loved, took to the stage singing. \u201cEl Apag\u00f3n\u201d And \u201cDespu\u00e9s de la Playa.\u201d The captions of the East Coast broadcast read, \u201c[SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH]\u201d And \u201c[SINGING IN NON-ENGLISH]\u201d during Bad Bunny\u2019s mashup performance, leading some to accuse the program of \u201cracist\u201d behavior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a Puerto Rican, Latina and Spanish speaker, putting \u201c[SINGING IN NON-ENGLISH]\u201d Bad Bunny, one of the most well-known artists in the world, sings in Spanish in a country where millions of Spanish speakers. This is IGNORANT AND INSULTING. Do better CBS,\u201d one tweet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAltSource\/status\/1622437175403896836\"><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBad Bunny wins a Grammy, and when he speaks some Spanish during his acceptance speech the best you can do in the close [sic] captioning is to type \u201cNON-ENGLISH\u201d ?!?!?\u00a0 Just a little racist,\u201d another account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/13thgenusa\/status\/1622420422229725184\">We are in agreement<\/a>. \u201cDo better. Be prepared with a multilingual captionist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every comment criticizing CBS and Grammys for not translating the captions into Spanish was met with someone saying that it was absurd to be so upset.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh Jesus grow up. Stop grasping,\u201d One tweet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matix1983\/status\/1622628702763843585\"><\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s what it says on literally all closed captioning. English is the main language in the USA. The fact he was on the show is amazing. I\u2019ve lived between the USA and Mexico [sic] my entire life. This offends no one I know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others pointed out how captions can be changed to any language, and expecting the English subtitles to switch to other languages wasn\u2019t practical.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo into your televisions [sic] settings, when you do that, change the language to Spanish when you set it up. Just like you do when you get a new iPhone and set the language. Then the captions will be in Spanish or whatever language you want. But I\u2019m sure complaints are just easier,\u201d One Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobFairchild6\/status\/1622699962667597827\">Observe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a Puerto Rican, you spend too much energy on issues that have no impact on your life,\u201d Another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JulioVe92014484\/status\/1622805583954079744\"><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CBS quickly rebroadcast the Grammys in primetime on the West Coast after the backlash. That show included updated Spanish closed captioning for Bad Bunny\u2019s opening performance, and the on-demand version also includes closed captioning in Spanish, per <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/tv\/news\/bad-bunny-grammys-performance-spanish-closed-captioning-1235514408\/\">Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics came out in force against the Grammy Awards, complaining that the closed captioning didn\u2019t switch seamlessly between English and Spanish while artist Bad Bunny was performing. But many viewers saw this as an overreaction, especially since 78% of the nation speaks English at home compared to 13% who report speaking Spanish at home, per &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1837872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8460,17717,17882,17883,5537,4903,10084,6309,3686,8842],"class_list":["post-1837869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-accusations","tag-grammys","tag-non-english","tag-offends","tag-one","tag-racist","tag-reject","tag-singing","tag-this","tag-viewers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1837872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}