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Actor John Leguizamo doesn’t seem too impressed with Dean Cain’s new job based on the brutal way he insulted him on social media Friday.
The vocally right-wing former “Lois & Clark” star recently announced that he is joining Immigration and Customs Enforcement “to help secure the safety of all Americans, not just talk about it.”
Cain made a recruitment video to attract others to the cause, but may have caused more snark than sign-ups.
Leguizamo didn’t pull punches about Cain in a video post on social media on Friday.
“What kind of loser volunteers to be an ICE officer?” Leguizamo asked. “What a moron. Dean Cain, your pronouns are ‘has, been.’”
Leguizamo isn’t the only one going scorched-earth on Cain.
Some people on social media lambasted the actor, who was born Dean George Tanaka, for not recognizing the similarities between the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda and the incarceration of Cain’s own Japanese American family members in remote U.S. prison camps during World War II.
“My family was interred in the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho,” Cain told Variety late last month. “That was a horrible injustice, but I don’t think that I deserve any sort of reparations.”
Fellow Asian Americans like Margaret Cho also criticized Cain, who is of both Japanese and European heritage, on social media:
“You’re Japanese,” she said, “You’re not even white. … I know you, and you are not white. You have never been white, and no matter how many of these white activities you participate in, it’s never gonna make that happen. You’re never gonna be white, no matter how racist you are. No matter how wrong you act.”
“Always wrong — never white. Dumbass,” she added.
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