For years, conservatives on the court have claimed to be “colorblind.” Yet when it comes to criminalizing our communities, suddenly race matters. This is the contradiction at the heart of the Roberts Court: no race in college admissions, but race is admissible in immigration stops.
What I don’t understand is how 46 % of Latino voters voted for trump
Cubans.
Homophobia/transphobia.
Pulling up the ladder.
And of course his polling with Latinos has plummeted.
They’re no more immune to the propaganda, it seems.
I don’t know Latino Trump voters, but I know immigrant AfD voters here in Germany and I assume their reasoning is similar:
And so on. The point is, every single non-native or non-native-looking voter of fascist parties thinks they are the exception.
People are idiots… in every shape, color, and size.
There were Jews who supported Hitler…at first
They’re stupid. Source: I have stupid extended family in the US voting for him
My bil called a friend of mine communist scum on Facebook because they posted an opinion on Charlie Kirk. It wasn’t even celebration. It was just a solid detailed opinion. He called her communist scum.
I’d just say “define communism”. These dumbasses just use it as a general insult with no idea what it means.
Can confirm. I’m from Mexico and also have stupid family in the US voting republican, specially idolizing the orange idiot
Your family will be coming back, it’s only a matter of time.
A big part of it is selection bias. 46% of Latino voters != 46% of Latino residents, by a long shot.
The Latinos that have the right to vote tend to be wealthier, more educated and professionalized, and more inclined towards the “Law & Order” and “Anti-Communist” political rhetoric of the Republican Party than their undocumented or unregistered peers. Add to that, during the 1980s and 90s, you had a lot of post-USSR collapse Latin American refugees fleeing countries like Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua that no longer had Soviet support. Those that could legally move to the US typically worked for big American businesses (oil companies, most notably) with their own Reagan/Bush era conservative socio-economic attitudes. Pile in that a lot of these migrant communities have a vested interest in the Republican Party as a tool of patronage - Cubans in Florida have accrued all sorts of special legal privileges precisely because the GOP sees them as a staunch, loyal voting block. And then right-wing press in these communities fuels the anti-communist (and anti-LGBTQ, anti-Black/East Asia, anti-Liberal) politics.
So you’re really whittling down the pool of Latinos who get to become legal citizens, the Latinos who get to register to vote, the Latinos who are invited to join the upper class and eventually participate in local/state/national politics, the Latinos who get to participate in national network journalism, and the Latinos who are rich enough to serve as patrons for the next political class.
Eventually, everyone looks like some combination of Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Jeff Bezos.
Wait, are you implying Jeff Bezos is Latino?
Culturally, by way of his adopted father who was a Peter Pan kid.
Most people never see a single thing any politician ever says that isn’t a sound byte on their favorite news source. I bet if you asked a large group of people if they have ever watched an political speech in its entirety that 98% would say no.