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The Hispanics quest to become White is unstoppable
« on: November 12, 2024, 10:53:24 PM »
This article does a great job in addressing the Hispanics vote and attitudes around race.
https://www.newsweek.com/why-politics-republican-latinos-suggests-they-want-white-opinion-1874029



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Why the Politics of Republican Latinos Suggests They Want To Be White | Opinion
Published Feb 29, 2024 at 7:00 AM EST
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By Efrén Pérez
Professor of Political Science and Psychology at University of California, Los Angeles
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As our country gears up for another racially fraught presidential election, many political observers are wondering whether the roughly 30 percent of Latinos who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 will once again support a Republican candidate who is openly xenophobic and anti-Latino. The answer is very likely "yes" because many of these Latinos want to be white—but not in the way that you're thinking.


To understand this Latino puzzle, we must transform our understanding about whiteness in America. Most people view white people as a group whose membership depends on skin color and other observable traits. But there is a more telling, and perhaps more accurate, way of thinking about this group as one whose membership is based on an ideological way of thinking—a worldview that demands both hierarchy and domination of others. Only with this perspective in mind can we begin to better understand Latino Republicans in contemporary times.

The conventional view of race in America is that it is a social construction: an imagined but meaningful category with real consequences for people's lives. This perspective views white people as being comprised exclusively of individuals whose skin color is relatively light and who find their ancestral origins in Western Europe. But in the current moment, this understanding cannot explain why so many Latinos keep such close political company with a mostly white Republican Party.

Consider Enrique Tarrio, former leader of the white supremacist organization, the Proud Boys, and ally of former President Donald Trump. Enrique is a dark-skinned Cuban man who looks unmistakably Latino. Yet he fundamentally thinks like many Republican white people in ideological terms.

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Supporters of former President Donald Trump protest outside the Clark County Election Department on Nov. 7, 2020, in North Las Vegas, Nev. Ethan Miller/Getty Images
What Enrique Tarrio and other Latino Republicans today have in common is their earnest and devout investment in whiteness as an ideology. If whiteness is an ideology, then your skin color and racial classification do not matter as much as your genuine belief in a subjugating worldview. If whiteness is an ideology, then what earns you your bona fides is your commitment to pushing back, politically, and sometimes violently, against a variety of minoritized groups who "deserve" to be put in their place and kept there.

Does this mean that Latino Republicans are ashamed of their ethnic origins and would rather be white? Yes, in an ideological sense.

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What Republican Latinos, today, are reacting to is the prevailing—and accurate—understanding of Latinos as a mostly progressive, Democratic-leaning, and genuinely aggrieved group. Latino Republicans aspire to be the kind of Latino who thinks that racial and ethnic minorities—especially Black people—"complain too much;" who think that women should be "seen, not heard;" who believe we are being overrun by "lawbreaking illegal immigrants;" who feel that homosexuals and transgender individuals are "unnatural aberrations," and so on. It is an ideological thread that connects all of these opinions together. Research showed that Latino supporters of nativist candidates like Donald Trump share a worldview that—among other things—denies the continued prevalence of racism in the lives of many Latinos and other people of color, despite wide evidence to the contrary.

Why are so many Latinos drawn to this ideology?

In a field of race relations where white people are still—even if precariously—the dominant racial group, many Latinos are psychologically compelled to affirm this status quo by ideologically joining in whiteness. Mounting data-driven research showed that for many individuals, there is a stronger sense of security in bolstering how things are rather than embracing a highly uncertain future—such as a changing field of relations between white people and people of color.

My own research in this area has examined what belief in this status quo does to some Latinos. Our data showed that when Latinos are reminded about the virtues of the American Dream—the popular but bankrupt idea that one can get ahead by simply working hard—they become more likely to agree with ideas like "society is set up so that people usually get what they deserve."

In turn, the more Latinos agree with these notions, the more supportive they become of harsher policies toward undocumented Latino immigrants, including ending temporary relief from deportation for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. For these Latinos, if the way of doing things seems good and fair, then it is important to protect that system against its alleged enemies—even if some of those enemies are other Latinos. This way of thinking has found fertile ground in the Republican Party.

As these and other examples suggest, it is a shared ideology with Republicans that allows Latinos to access whiteness. This is a key lesson to grasp—and fast.

Public shaming of Republican Latinos as race-traitors, turncoats, or other names that impugn their credentials as "real" ethnics is unproductive and will not work because they are ideologically opposed to thinking of Latinos as a racially aggrieved member of the Democratic coalition, where the grand majority of Latinos exist (about 66 percent, actually). In fact, Latino Republicans revel in being a persona non grata among the larger Latino community as currently defined. The sooner we adapt to this reality, the better equipped we'll be to combat it in the marketplace of ideological ideas.

Efrén Pérez is a professor of political science and psychology at UCLA and director of its Race, Ethnicity, Politics & Society (REPS) Lab. He is the author of Diversity's Child: People of Color and the Politics of Identity.

The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.

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Offline Nowayhaha

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Re: The Hispanics quest to become White is unstoppable
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2024, 12:56:49 AM »
Latinos overwhelmingly voted for Obama  . Bidens foreign and Economic policy made democrats lose .
Similarly if Trump does not resolve that he will be voted out next election .
Youes is different place all together now . The Empire has reached its Max .

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Re: The Hispanics quest to become White is unstoppable
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2024, 01:59:33 AM »

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Re: The Hispanics quest to become White is unstoppable
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2024, 03:19:50 AM »
Democrats opened borders wide open for Mexican with the hope that they'll reciprocate by voting blue.

Problem is - Latino has strong Christian family values and is not ropped into degenerate democrats Marxist agenda like Africans.

Democrats are basically gaslight Latino for not yielding to cultural marxism, which blacks (especially women) have been totally decimated. Blacks can barely run a family and have to depend on government to raise fatherless kids, while many ostracized black men work for prison industrial complex.

For those who live USA, how true is this?


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Re: The Hispanics quest to become White is unstoppable
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2024, 09:22:19 PM »
Democrats opened borders wide open for Mexican with the hope that they'll reciprocate by voting blue.

Problem is - Latino has strong Christian family values and is not ropped into degenerate democrats Marxist agenda like Africans.

Democrats are basically gaslight Latino for not yielding to cultural marxism, which blacks (especially women) have been totally decimated. Blacks can barely run a family and have to depend on government to raise fatherless kids, while many ostracized black men work for prison industrial complex.

For those who live USA, how true is this?


I agree. Joe shoulda left the border closed. It gave tramp a lot of track. Also zip it on trans issues - answer should be mind ur own business.
Once tramp starts his sheeet then pple will wake up.

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Re: The Hispanics quest to become White is unstoppable
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2024, 09:45:48 PM »
Black women are the most pro-family group in America; don't buy anti-black propaganda. Most women in general, white and Latino, want black men, so black women have a lot of competition in the dating arena, but they are not scared to work, build wealth, and live independently, as single women should men fail to step up. Politically, I would argue that Black women follwed by black men and Jewish people are the groups holding America from going totally insane! New groups of minorities are brainwashed, especially new Latino and African immigrants. When you live in America for long as a black person, especially 15+ years+, you move left politically to where the majority of African Americans are, especially even more so when you have American kids. American politics is premised on anti-blackness and whiteness, so you have to choose sides, whether you like it or not. On another note, if you join the anti-black/African crowd team, you are a lost cause because the other side will not embrace you.
The future belongs to those who have a quarter of the character and integrity of RV Heavy Hitter!

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Re: The Hispanics quest to become White is unstoppable
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2024, 02:14:10 PM »
With Marco Rubio now part of if not the future of Republican, the Hispanics are locked.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one ~ Thomas Paine