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For years, conservatives on the court have claimed to be “colorblind.” Yet when it comes to criminalizing our communities, suddenly race matters. This is the contradiction at the heart of the Roberts Court: no race in college admissions, but race is admissible in immigration stops.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago (7 children)

What I don’t understand is how 46 % of Latino voters voted for trump

[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 25 points 5 months ago

I don't know Latino Trump voters, but I know immigrant AfD voters here in Germany and I assume their reasoning is similar:

  1. They don't mean us, they mean only the criminal immigrants. I work here and speak German.
  2. Well they could never go after all of us, that would be stupid! Entire industries depend on immigration and would collaps. So you see how their rhetoric is exaggerated.
  3. All politicians lie, that's what politicians do. They never do what they say, so the AfD will never act against immigrants.
  4. They are against gay people! I don't care about the rest. I habe a good job and speak fluent German, so I'll be fine. As long as they go after gay people, I don't care for any other policy.

And so on. The point is, every single non-native or non-native-looking voter of fascist parties thinks they are the exception.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They're stupid. Source: I have stupid extended family in the US voting for him

[–] daizelkrns@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can confirm. I'm from Mexico and also have stupid family in the US voting republican, specially idolizing the orange idiot

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Your family will be coming back, it's only a matter of time.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A big part of it is selection bias. 46% of Latino voters != 46% of Latino residents, by a long shot.

The Latinos that have the right to vote tend to be wealthier, more educated and professionalized, and more inclined towards the "Law & Order" and "Anti-Communist" political rhetoric of the Republican Party than their undocumented or unregistered peers. Add to that, during the 1980s and 90s, you had a lot of post-USSR collapse Latin American refugees fleeing countries like Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua that no longer had Soviet support. Those that could legally move to the US typically worked for big American businesses (oil companies, most notably) with their own Reagan/Bush era conservative socio-economic attitudes. Pile in that a lot of these migrant communities have a vested interest in the Republican Party as a tool of patronage - Cubans in Florida have accrued all sorts of special legal privileges precisely because the GOP sees them as a staunch, loyal voting block. And then right-wing press in these communities fuels the anti-communist (and anti-LGBTQ, anti-Black/East Asia, anti-Liberal) politics.

So you're really whittling down the pool of Latinos who get to become legal citizens, the Latinos who get to register to vote, the Latinos who are invited to join the upper class and eventually participate in local/state/national politics, the Latinos who get to participate in national network journalism, and the Latinos who are rich enough to serve as patrons for the next political class.

Eventually, everyone looks like some combination of Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Jeff Bezos.

[–] dovah@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait, are you implying Jeff Bezos is Latino?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Culturally, by way of his adopted father who was a Peter Pan kid.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

People are idiots... in every shape, color, and size.

[–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

There were Jews who supported Hitler....at first

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 months ago
  1. Cubans.

  2. Homophobia/transphobia.

  3. Pulling up the ladder.

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

And of course his polling with Latinos has plummeted.

They're no more immune to the propaganda, it seems.

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

Most people never see a single thing any politician ever says that isn't a sound byte on their favorite news source. I bet if you asked a large group of people if they have ever watched an political speech in its entirety that 98% would say no.