Laverne Cox Calls Out J.Lo on New Yorker status
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Laverne Cox Calls Out J.Lo on New Yorker status
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I find the weird ownership hang ups people have for metropolitan cities so weird. Any big city is going to always have transplants and you are where you live.
By J. Loās metric, Mamdani isnāt a New Yorkerā¦
Nobody is a New Yorker before they move there, but otherwise sheās absolutely right. I do get what sheās saying tho lol
I will just never get over her age every time I hear it. Insane
I love Laverne, you can see her actively listening and being careful with what she says.
Pretty AND smart
JLO has lived in California since 1991, these are the same people who say longislanders arent new yorkers when queens and Brooklyn are both on longisland.
Laverne Cox who dated a MAGA cop for years? That Laverne Cox?
Laverne takes very great care of herself and ages gracefully as until today I was under the impression she was younger than me
I mean in California we literally call people who moved here transplants but its also not the biggest thing in the world to be upset by it š a lot of New Yorkers think the same thing as J-Lo if not more lmao
Side note but Laverne Cox is how I found out trans people (and LGBTQ+ in general) existed lmao. She came on Americaās Got Talent, I searched her on Wikipedia, and then I was shooketh by what I learned.
Sheās so stunning
Idk why weāre asking celebrities for their hot takes and then getting mad at them for having hot takes. And then complaining about how canned PR their other answers are.
J Lo āIām still Jenny from the blockā
Also J Lo ā donāt make eye contact with me on the setā
š doesnāt she have something else to do like date maga republicans
It is weird. I was born in New York City, my mom
was born, I have never lived anywhere else, but I donāt feel like a native New Yorker? Maybe itās because I am from the forgotten borough, but I always have felt like an outsider?! I guess it because I have strong Argentine and Italian heritage (my mom is Argentine and my father came to this country from Italy when he was a young adult), but as much as I love this city, I never feel like I need to claim it as my own.
I think itās easy to hate on JL for this, but many people hold this same belief about whichever city theyāre from, especially when itās big. Itās inconsequential, but usually plays a big part of peopleās initial identity. Even in my teeny county I grew up in, people who said they were from the town I was from, but were really from the other would be called out. It didnāt really matter, but itās just a thing people do.
I think using the term ācalls outā is a bit misleading.
You need to be RAISED in New York to be a New Yorker.
I was with her until the part about being a New Yorker before even moving there. That’s idiotic.
You are trying to tell me that this queen is 54 years old. Dear god. What a BEAUTY
Speaking personally, I think the hang up that many New Yorkers have is that people move here, call themselves New Yorkers, and then move out in search of a lawn or different pace of living, raise kids. Whatever. I think it is this sense that some people call themselves New Yorkers, but it’s like an outfit they put on for a few years before they take it off for the next thing. Native New Yorkers who live here for their whole lives or most of their lives, feel very different than those people and it’s not the same and when people say it is, they’re wrong.
I need an American to explain what all the New York gatekeeping is about because this woman is right, I’m sorry. Why would we speak about the American Dream if New York and the US in general were not places where immigrants were/are attracted to with the hope of a better future.
I’d be curious to know what percentage of todays’ New York population was *born* and *raised* in New York.
ETA : here’s a fun drinking game. Take a shot every time you read the words “New York” in my comment. I’m sorry for my poor vocabulary and for your tipsiness.
At least JLo isnāt an openly proud MAGA apologist, Laverne. I love her, but come on.Ā
J-Lo is from the Bronx, it’s barely considered new york, no one who thinks New York City, thinks the Bronx, they think Manhattan and Brooklyn.
J-Lo is NOT the authority on who can call them selves New Yorkers and as a Harlem born Manhattanite I will die on that hill.
Why does not being a new yorker bother people so much?
You’re from ohio, it’s fine.
it was a strange thing for j.lo to say ā¦ does she not consider her own parents new yorkers ?
OP, thereās a difference between calling someone out, and shouting out.
People get unhinged about this so quickly.
Iām not from NYC. I do live here though and thatās okay. My partner is a born and raised NYC. He says he doesnāt meet a lot of people from here as much as he used to.
It doesnāt bother him but it is an observation.
She was a New Yorker before she moved to NY?
Okay all this discourse but why are people offended being called a transplant lol
Hmm