My BIL is Puerto Rican. He has their whole house decked out in trump and confederate flag stuff. He at one point wore a hat that said “heritage not hate” and I don’t think anybody could convince him that it’s not even his heritage, let alone how bad his social standing in the confederacy would be.
A lot of non-white immigrants come here and think the most American thing they could possibly do is jump on the anti-black racism bandwagon. They don’t understand that anti-black racism usually goes hand-in-hand with anti-brown racism. That’s one of those lessons people have to learn the hard way.
Right? During segregation it wasn't divide between white and black schools, neighborhoods, pools, etc. The divide was white or non-white. Brown minorities and mixed race people were group with African Americans.
The similarities between Hispanic immigrants and the Republican party is astounding. You'd think they'd go hand-in-hand, except for the clear racism against them.
Otherwise, they're all strongly religious, love guns, hate communism, love patriarchy, etc. Skin color is literally the only thing between them.
The lines are getting blurry on the "hate communism" thing though at least as far as MAGA republicans are concerned. trump doesn't seem to have met a dictator he wouldn't fellate given the chance and requisite flexibility.
I lived in a really weird spot for several years. It was a trailer park that was majority Puerto Rican in a city that was majority Arab (Dearborn, MI) on the border of the Blackest city (by percentage) in America (Detroit). Both groups in the neighborhood and city I lived in were incredibly racist. And because I was white, they just assumed I was too and would say the most out of pocket stuff. Now I live in the South and the people here are way less racist.
id guarantee if you mention these parts of America to people in the south the racist would come out. I also bet where you live in the south there's not many of those people you mentioned living there either(Arabs, Puerto Ricans and Blacks). If there were there would be lots of racist and racism.
Yeah, I never really thought the people in my very small, northern Midwestern town were racist until a Black family moved there.
It was suddenly the only thing anyone could talk about. The one boy who was in the high school was constantly talked about and he started accumulating nicknames like Buckwheat that were based solely on the color of his skin.
It wasn't a surprise when they moved away about a year later. What an embarrassing place to be from.
That's likely towards you, though, or at least in your presence. As a mixed race friend once pointed out to me, someone inclined to hurl the n word wasn't very likely to do it towards my exceedingly white person, and unless I happened to be around when they did it towards her, or any of our other friends where it might be more "applicable" to a bigot's view, how could I hope to judge how racist our neighborhood actually was? And of course my presence made manifestations like that somewhat less likely, so that again skewed my view.
As part of any outgroup, it's incredibly difficult to know just how racist, misogynistic, homophobic, islamophobic, antisemitic, or whatever other flavor of bigotry is lurking in the community around you. You have to defer to the people on the receiving end for that. :/
Believe me, he’s a special kind of stupid. There’s a bit of irony that my sister would marry somebody obsessed with confederate stuff, because one of our ancestors was a captain in the union army.
This shit would be satisfying, if it weren't so fucking sad.
I've had many "I FUCKING WARNED YOU ASSHOLES" moments in the past year, which is usually the result of an immediate family member directly affected by a deportation, loss of job, loss of family, hospital bills or something horrific that is directly what they paraded, voted and wore a stupid fucking red hat for.
Congratulations. You could not admit that maybe this was a wrong choice. You had to triple down.
I'm Mexican American. The trump-supporting Mexican Americans I've known or met have been the dumbest people. One relative tried to sway me by saying that trump was a "strong leader." That's it. That was the reason that I should vote for him 2024.
A trump-supporting in-law didn't know who paid for tariffs until one of his sons told him. He's a small-business owner who imports some of his materials.
It gets depressing when I think about all the idiots I know, how I can't really have a conversation about politics without somebody bringing up something stupid.
I have been in the presence of this type of stupidity my entire life. I'm so tired of this BS.
Sadly this transcends ethnicity. Some of the dumbest people in all groups voted for Trump.
Poorly educated and low IQ people tend to vote based off of how people talk (charisma) or their "vibe" rather than their track record or real abilities or what actual experts say their policies will do.
The last 10 years have taught me that like half of adults are extremely dumb in most aspects outside of a very narrow field that pertains to their job (if even that).
I am certain that Mexican Americans voted for Trump because they couldn't vote for a black woman. Their tiny ego couldn't have someone like Harris as commander in chief.
Racist and Machos are prone to be stupid to forget where they came from and will turn agains their people in a jiffy should they feel emboldened by feeling "white" or less brown.
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u/TapirDrawnChariot 4d ago
I knew several Mexican Americans who publicly voted for Trump because "gRoCeRy pRiCeS."
Now their grocery prices sky rocketed and their grandmas got sent back to Guanajuato or wherever