Habla Espanol? Debate rages over pizza promotion
May 23, 2012, 12:04 PM | Updated: Oct 11, 2024, 1:37 pm
A promotion offering |
Quieres pizza? Some people don’t, at least in Spanish.
What was supposed to be a light hearted promotion is facing
plenty of backlash. Several groups attacked the ‘free
pizza’ offer to anyone ordering in Spanish at Pizza Patron
in Dallas on June 5.
“I think people are sick and tired of picking up a
phone and having to wait and press “line 1” if you want
English and “line 2″ if you want something else,” said
Peter Thomas of the Conservative Coalition in an interview
with Ross and Burbank.
Thomas calls the campaign discriminatory and says it’s
just the latest in an ongoing erosion of the English
language.
“You just keep turning your back a little here a little
there and it just keeps going on and on and it keeps
building up and pretty soon we’ll find it gone,” Thomas
complains.
“I don’t think that there’s this huge problem with
people not learning English in this country because you
occasionally have to press 1,” counters co-host Luke
Burbank.
“If a company wants to make a business decision for
whatever reason to have you speak Spanish or English, why
shouldn’t they be free to do that in a free market state?”
asks co-host Dave Ross.
Thomas insists he has no problem with people speaking
any language in their homes, but argues for laws mandating
English.
“It just surprises me that a self described
conservative would want to enforce a language requirement
which you couldn’t really enforce unless you expanded the
government in a way I don’t think even you would be
comfortable with,” Ross argues.
What do you think?
