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White men I can understand (if not agree with). But come on Latinos, you should be fucking better than this.
"Immigrants are poisoning the blood of America"
"Yeah, ese. You tell 'em."
At least the ones in California appeared to know what was up.
I don't live in the US but my country has also had a lot of immigration, invasions (true ones with armies, not mean ways to describe immigration), internal migrations from poorer parts of the country, you name it... Basically almost everyone is an immigrant in one way or another.
Well, our version of the far right has a lot of support from first or second generation immigrants.
One part of it is to pull the ladder up after ourselves and avoid others coming in and competing with us for the same jobs. Another part is that immigrants are on average poorer and angrier about the state of things, and for the populist far right, anger is fuel.
But also, Populists are becoming increasingly good at blurring the lines and making certain people feel included in the "in group" at election time, even if they are going to kick them in the head as soon as the ballots close. Case in point, AfD in Germany being led by a gay woman with an immigrant partner, "Brothers of Italy" being led by a single mom.... Usha Vance is not an isolated edge case, she seems to be part of a playbook, whether she knows it or not.
"Latino" is a white supremacist term. It's a denial of ancestry from america, africa, etc. in favor of "latin" culture aka european. White supremacy needs new blood to survive in USA. That's the whole point of "latino". That's why "latinos" are encouraged to think they're "white". Meanwhile "whiteness" is nothing more than an oppressive system of racist control.
As a European I don't get it anyway. Spanish people are white, but apparently are "people of colour" in the US.
I'm guessing it's one of those "where you came from" things that Americans obsess over. Americans were even "racist" to the Italians and they're pretty much the whitest country in Europe these days.
Whiteness is not an objective quality of people but a socially constructed category that expands or contracts depending on what is needed to maintain in group dominance.
When the in group is weak, you'll see more people being considered "white," and when it is strong, the tests will get stricter (looking not only at skin color, for example, but at ancestry). It's really just a question of how confident racists are that they have sufficient clout to exclude a particular group without undermining their exclusion of other groups.
Up until the mid 20th century, a lot of Americans didn't consider Catholic's to be "white."
It was a really big deal when Irish Catholic John F Kennedy was elected president.
Are Latinos the next Italians?