The New York Times opines that Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are not real Latinos. “Real Hispanics”… like “real Blacks” and “real gays” are leftists who vote in lockstep with the Democrat Party.
Neither Mr. Cruz nor Mr. Rubio meets conventional expectations of how Latino politicians are supposed to behave.
Neither of these candidates claims to speak for the Hispanic population or derive a crucial portion of their support from Hispanics, and neither bases much of his political identity on being a Latino.
In other words, they are not steeped in leftist identity politics like Democrats Jose Serrano, Luis Guttierez, or Loretta and Linda Sanchez — the Duras sisters of the US Congress.
Curious, isn’t it, that the only minority figures that the old leftist white people who run the media recognize as “legitimate” representatives of their communities are those whose politics align precisely with those of the old leftist white people who run the media.
Anyway, doing taxes has put me in a bad mood, so I am going to kickback with some Rifftrax. In lieu of content, please accept this song about suicide by a gay dude that somehow manages not to suck.
Doing taxes? Your own, or someone else’s?
Maybe this will help lift your bad mood…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D3udbawA1Q
To be fair like Carlos Slim the richest man in the world they are hidalgo Hispanics. New birth documents have a dozen flavors of Hispanic because hidalgo Hispanics do so well it weakens the case for Hispanics being victims.
Work harder Latrina’s 21 illegitimate crackbabies depend on your taxes. Actual 21 crackbaby women in NJ
Great band! Don’t think I’ve ever listened to them before–went and ordered the CD. Thanks!
“neither of these candidates claim to speak for the Hispanic population or derive a crucial portion of their support from Hispanics, and neither bases much of his political identity on being latino.” gee maybe they think of themselves as American and derive their support from all americans, instead of playing identity politics. or are they trying to tell us they are getting elected with votes from the racist conservatives.
I know not what resource others may take, but as for me, give me Hollywood to define “authentic” Hispanic as played by Anglos.
Wow. The conservative victimhood machine keeps on pressing out the hits.
Did anybody you actually read the article from the Times? Its a very balanced look at why Cruz and Rubio are not embraced by the Spanish language population and speculates that when the SW states comes into play those roots might be brought up a lot. It also talks a lot about how Univision is focusing on the candidates.
But instead of actually reading the article the folks at Redstate stamp their feet and cry “we are a victim again.” Then the queens here dramatically project their own victimhood on dems.
I suspect only one or two of you actually read the “offending” piece.
mike.. What you decry as “victimhood”, a notion that you hold very near and dear, we decry as hypocrisy. Obama’s roots were not “authentically” African-American were they? Yet… no one on the left seemed to mind that. See.. those of here don’t judge people by their political “identity”, we judge them on the content of their character.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin [gender, native language, political affiliation, place of birth, religion, sexuality, etc] but by the content of their character.”
Liberals have it completely backwards these days.
Almost 100% of the discrimination I have encountered for being gay has come from liberals who do not like that I don’t conform to “their version” of what gay people are supposed to be like. For instance, we no longer seek out the social connections with “established” gay couples. We have been together for 34 years. We do not play around. 100% of the “established” gay couples we have meet have expected us to engage in some type of sexual activity. Then they turn into mean spirited people expressing their total disbelief that we don’t fool around. Then we get the accusations that we think we are just too good for them. Single gay men try to befriend us because they think we have an endless stream of single “hot”, not nice but hot, guys for them to date.
Rather a sad way for adults to behave no matter where they fall on the sexual/gender identity spectrum.
The New York Times once again reveals its ignorance. Marco and Ted are both Cubans. Cubans have traditionally been more conservative and supported Republicans. Cuba, after the Spanish American War, slid into a dictatorship, while Mexico with 70 years of PRI, (Partido Revolucional Institucional) was socialist and still are. Love that tortilla subsidy and universal health care.
“…neither bases much of his political identity on being latino.” Which explains why it hasn’t been front page news that Latinos took two of the top three spots in a recent primary. Had they been Ds we would still be hearing about this historic event, every day, at the top of every “news” program.
It’s become a standard leftist trope to dismiss blatant incidents of media bias as conservatives crying “victimhood.” The left very often uses name-calling to avoid having to defend the substance of an accusation.
Univision. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
Yes, Na…mikey, I am laughing at you.
Seems that mike, et al, see some benefit to a Balkanized population – dozens of ethnicities, genders (however many there are today), religions (including atheists), and traits yet to be made up — all at war with each other for access to power.
I don’t give a damn what “Hispanics” (a term originating way back in the Nixon administration) think because then we have to give a damn about an uncountable number of groups – many of which have irreconcilable differences.
If we can’t all see ourselves as Americans first then we need to face the fact that the country is too big and needs to split up.
Multiculturalism is a failed ideology – the failures being played out in horror shows all over the world. It’s nice to believe that the whole world wants to buy a Coke and keep it company but it just ain’t so.
Old Coke ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2msbfN81Gm0
Actually, it’s funny mikey mentions Univision, whose “news agency” is a propaganda outfit for Hillary Clinton, which is owned by Hillary Clinton big donors, and which states flatly that anyone who does not obey Hillary is a bad Latino and a race traitor.
Once again, in trying to fling the accusation of racist, mikey reveals that he and his Obama Party and his unindicted felon Hillary Clinton are the actual racists.
Maybe if mikey were educated and didn’t blindly repeat Obama talking points, he might know these things. But mikey, frankly, is stupid and will never question anything Hillary does because she owns him like the slave and troll he is.
Bob Mould definitely does not suck. Well, as far as ‘make bad music’.
Actually, littlelettermike does have a valid point (though pretty much lost in his accusations of victimhood). Those who identify or who can be classified as Hispanic or Latino/a are not a monolithic group and are often comprised of many different nationalities. In the interior west and on the Left Coast, most falling into that description are from Mexico, with an increasing number from Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and other Latin American countries. Yet on the East Coast, those comprising that grouping are often either Puerto Rican or Cuban in origin. The issues facing those from “south of the border” are usually different than those originating from island nations or territories. This is why someone from Guatemala may not necessarily identify a Rubio or Cruz as being “one of them” (valid, because they are not).
Yet media outlets such as the New York Times perpetuate the same categorization and stereotyping they purport to isolate in their article. Because they are in New York and see primarily those of Puerto Rican descent, they believe that every Latino or Hispanic individual has the same issues (and is often a social justice Democrat, because the elected officials who claim to represent that community are themselves). Naturally, this affects their coverage of such issues as immigration and “the border” and consequently isolates them from the very real problems that exist ‘out there’ and causes them to dismiss them as a subtle (and not-so-subtle) form of racism.
@15 RSG
You seem to have committed an error by grouping Central Americans as being influenced politically by Mexico. Refugees during the civil wars in the 80’s from El Salvador and Nicaragua, who supported the government against the FMLN and the FSLN respectively, are conservative and would likely vote for Rubio or Cruzi. El Salvador is predominate conservative, (yo se porque yo vivo alla’). Costa Rica is basic ally centrist with both the left and right not to far from the middle.
Guatamala recently elected a right wing president. Ortega now owns Nicaragua.
So mikey is saying that the virtues of hard work, independence, and self reliance are alien to the “Hispanics”?
How enlightened of him…
I wasn’t attempting to group them together politically as much as culturally, as many of the immigrants from countries to the direct south of the US tend to arrive under certain similar circumstances and tend to have similar occupations and histories behind their reason for being in the United States (such as being refugees–political or economic). Many also tend to be rather new arrivals in the US, from the 1980s forward. While they may align politically with a Rubio or Cruz, they may still not identify with either in terms of group identity.
Contrast that with “island” immigrants, such as Cubans and Puerto Ricans, who’ve been in the US since the 1960s and earlier (as is the case with Senator Rubio’s parents), and who have been granted generally unlimited immigration status while also being of at least mixed social classes, and often of an upper-level socioeconomic status.
Of course there are exceptions, and yes, Guatemalans and Salvadorans may claim they have little in common from their perspective, other than conservative governments; much like Cubans may look down on Puerto Ricans as being neo-Socialist ultra nationalists who have nothing in common with them other than originating from an island. But by and large, in terms of status in the United States, those from directly south of the US have more in common with each other than those from island entities.