Saturday, May 4, 2024

Latino Twist

His fellow hispanics are racist, or something:
In an interview with Mother Jones, leftist journalist and author Paola Ramos argues that Latinos often “carry white supremacist tendencies—whether they’re racially coded as white or not.” Ramos contends assimilation into White American culture is driving Latino voters to back conservative political candidates.“We can be minorities, but we too can perpetuate racism. Latinos, particularly the more generations are in this country, are not immune to nativism,” Ramos told Mother Jones. The MSNBC and Telemundo News contributor continued: “The more we assimilate, the more we conform to American principles and the idea of ‘otherizing’ is a real force, whether you’re Latino or whether you’re white.” “Anti-immigrant sentiment is so powerful, pervasive, and infectious that even newly arrived immigrants can sort of lean into that,” Ramos added.
Brown versus brown...

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