People Are Pretty Mad About MTV’s Casually Racist Golden Globes Tweet

During the 2016 Golden Globes ceremony, talented actresses Eva Longoria & America Ferrera dropped what was possibly the greatest introduction/racist shutdown of all time during their presentation. 

Host Ricky Gervais set them up beautifully, launching a well-deserved verbal attack on Donald Trump‘s apparent hatred for/bizarre wall-building comments about Mexican migrants and Hispanic people in general:

“Eva Longoria and America Ferrera aren’t just beautiful, talented actresses. They are also two people who your future President, Donald Trump, can’t wait to deport.”
Longoria and Ferrara decided to roll on the joke by commenting on how many people confuse them for other Hispanic actresses – it was only about a month ago that Gina Rodriguez was widely mistaken on the red carpet for Ferrera. 
Their mini-bit went as follows:
Eva: Yes, hi, I’m Eva Longoria, not Eva Mendes.


America
: And hi, I’m America Ferrera, not Gina Rodriguez.


Eva
: And neither of us are Rosario Dawson.


America
: Nope. Well said, Salma.


Eva
: Thank you, Charo.

After this, MTV Australia unfortunately tried to execute some kind of strange one-sided banter, by implying that all Hispanic people can’t be understood when speaking English… or something? 

Ferkkkk. As you can probably imagine, people are mad. 
MTV tried to back out of it by saying they were trying to continue playing on Ferrera & Longoria’s joke – but people on Twitter were quick to point out that their joke and MTV’s tweet had very, very little connection:
And this was MTV’s faux-pology:

“No, of course racist language and racial stereotyping isn’t still rampant in Australia, whatever do you mean?!”
Source: Twitter.
Photo: Handout / Getty.

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