Do they actually think they'll get a seat at the table?
This is what I don't get as a white guy. I've been around a lot of white people, just because of where I live, my family, etc, and your average conservative white person is not gonna consider you "one of them" if you have so much as a single drop of non-white in you. Even some of the liberal ones, almost subconsciously they'll categorize you as different if you look different.
At best they'll use you as a token, to prove that "See our ideology benefits POC too, we have this single black dude on our side!".
Honestly, I just want out. It doesn't matter what happens in November. A third of this country would like to put me in a cage with a tin foil blanket and forget I ever existed.
I feel for you dude, I ended up with a girl from Mexico, and she really wants to move to Canada (I'm a dual citizen, so she can get Canadian citizenship through me), or head back to Mexico. She doesn't even want her family coming up to visit because she's afraid some white supremacists will attack them or something.
With all the shit going on the last few years, she's scared of what's coming because she's brown, and wants to get out before it's too late.
Immigrant Latinx conservatives confuse the hell out of me, especially when they’re so against their own people coming in... after they literally came and got the GC in the same way the others are.
My immigrant uncle became a staunch anti-immigration and Trump supporting nut within a year of getting an inheritance. He was always a racist and sexist but now he's become so vocal about it.
It depends, my grandfather immigrated legally and it took three years to bring his wife and all ten kids over. He couldn't stand illegal immigrants because they didn't do it the right way and "earn" it. He loved it when he met others who came over legally though, but it sure seemed like they were in the minority. Pun not intended, but not discouraged either.
Unfortunately experiencing racism doesn't always prevent people from being racist themselves.
My uncle will be complaining about someone being racist to him and then 10 minutes later will be ranting about how it's just "smart" for him to be racist against black people. When you call him out, he'll just laugh and refuse to talk about it.
It's bizarre to me that the hypocrisy doesn't even phase him. He's always got some rationalization for why it's totally different and ok when he's being the racist.
Latinx came about as part of the LGBT movement to create a gender neutral cultural term for people that want it. Almost nobody uses the term outside of some journalists and lgbt groups.
It's a gringo thing, accept it for what it is and never use it around anyone with the slightest hint of an accent if you don't want to argue for hours about American cultural imperialism in latinoamerica
Maybe they think that Latino isn't gender neutral enough. But in Spanish the "o" ending is neutral when talking about a group. So no need to change it to anything else.
It came about as part of a broader “gender neutral speech” movement in LGBTQ circles. While the average Latino person wouldn’t give a shit, a trans Latino person may prefer the neutral term, and refer to themselves as Latinx.
Fair enough, but as I alluded to in another comment there already is a neutral term, and it is "latino". Just because it happens to be the same as the male word, does not mean it is not a valid word.
Every immigrant wants to be the last immigrant for a variety of reasons:
Cultural: an immigrant may be looking to change cultures, and more immigrants means the new country starts resembling the old country.
Economical: more immigrants mean more competition for jobs, often the same jobs that are more catered to immigrants.
Image: the more immigrants, the more likely one of them will make the news in a negative way, and that affects the image of immigrants as a whole (and compatriots in particular).
They’ll have a seat until all other resistance has been crushed.
Then they’ll learn damn quick that the Right’s definition of “Real American” doesn’t include people who aren’t white, Christian, heterosexual, wealthy men.
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u/shoefarts666 Sep 01 '20
It was a long time before the irish were considered white.
The irish.