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7 year old tweet
This is an old capture (2018). Steve died last year.
For these people, brown skin = Mexican. Kind of like how they attacked Sikhs after 9/11.
They don’t actually care about the difference, they just want to hurt brown people.
For these people, brown skin = Mexican.
Appropriate given how many Southwest Natives were forced south of the border during the Indian Wars and subsequent colonization campaigns.
Quite a few Mexican families can trace their lineage to the OG American People.
I had a Philippine friend who kept getting called Mexican in high school, and the same people who said that are voting for Trump. Extract from that what you will.
Correction: they want to hurt everyone who isn’t a white heterosexual “Christian” male.
“Protestant” “Christian” Cis White Male
Wealthy protestant cis white male.
There really is no limit to refining the in-group, because at the end of the day, every conservative imagines themselves as the very center of the in group.
Article from back in January:
Send him back to his country lmao
Better, send his country back to him.
Nava-who? What kind of Mexican is that? /s
Technically everyone was from Africa
Technically everyone is the same race - the human race.
Close. No such thing as “race”. We’re all the same species. The concept of race is what racism is and caused by.
If we were to go through the “ethnic” definition of being from somewhere. Ethnicity is quite literally a construct as much as I hate the overuse of that word, I fail to see how I’m from somewhere my ancestors decided to settle hundreds of years ago as opposed to where I was raised and/or lived my whole life.
Everyone living (on the whole earth!) has ancestors from there, right!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humansUnless there is some kind of 3rd rock from the sun situation going on, then it’d only be every human living
I’d usually downvote for punctuation overkill but it’s appropriate here.
Should have used interrobangs
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A lot of anti-latino racism really boils down to colonial anti-indigenous racism. The fascists are usually fine with white latinos, but something really stirs in them when it’s about mestizos, i.e. people whose family tree includes indigenous ancestry. Think of the stereotype of the Latin American gangster, the Mexican cartel rabid dog, like the ones in Breaking Bad. What do they look like? They never look like Ricky Martin, now, do they?
I remember Antonio Banderas (and indeed most of Europe) being bemused when a US interviewer called him a “person of colour”.
There are few places in the world deliberately ignorant to their own history as America
The indoctrination begins early and is thorough
And goddamn it was successful
Shhhhh shhhh don’t mention the genocide
I agree that’s definitely the case, but I think the problem here is that most Americans can’t tell minorities apart, they see brown skin and assume. I once watched a grown adult yell ‘Mexican go home’ to a Pakistani couple, and this sort of thing is far too common.
I think the problem here is that most Americans can’t tell minorities apart,
The greater problem is that they think someone’s ethnicity should impact how they treat that person.
it is always fun when you see some movie or tv show where the Irish hate the Itialians etc and you just know in 50 years time they all become friends and start hating each other based on skill colour. Let’s just hope in another 50 years all skin colours will band together to hate on something new like religion or something. Jk ofc
Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.
I really have to start reading it, I have the first book but was also gifted a graphic novel version of it a few years back. Thanks for the reminder
Don’t feel compelled to read the series “in order” too! Most of the stories are self contained.
I’m loving Monstrous Regiment right now. It’s so deliriously amazingly queer.
Terry Pratchett just threads the needle of being hilarious and irreverent while never being mean. His stories have deeper messages about race, gender, class, everything, but they are never morality plays.
Reactionaries just think the country belongs to them alone.
It really is that simple; “truth” to them is just whatever gets them closer to their goal of completely subjegating the people they hate, which is everyone who rejects their cultural hegemony.
cultural hegemony.
cheap beer that taste like diluted piss and bimbos in murican flag bikinis?
Don’t forget the conspiracy sticker covered diesels rolling coal with truck nutz.
I love that they aren’t aware of the rules about respecting their own flag.
What rules? There are no enforced rules. The flag code is barely guidelines, and when applied to civilians in unofficial matters are even less strict.
It’s actually insane how little protect the flag has for a country as nationalist as this
Not enforced, but there is still a list of dos and donts for the USA flag, that the right wing and the “patriots” don’t seem bothered about in the slightest.
and don’t they even get to swear an oath to it daily?
and don’t they even get to swear an oath to it daily?
Such a creepy cult-like ritual.
They are not even good at being racist. What a day to be alive.
Where’s the I fo on this is it just this?
Thank you! Always need to double check these days
Deporting indigenous people, peak fascism.
Oh god what does it want now?
He should report all those pasty motherfuckers to ICE.
I miss the days when this would have surprised me.
'Member when Idiocracy used to be a fiction ?
It still is, specifically it’s an unrealistically optimistic utopia. Relatively speaking.
This picture is from those days
