After making ‘American English’ the official language of Texas, GOP recruits Latinos in Spanish.

[ProSense]

After making ‘American English’ the official language of Texas, GOP recruits Latinos in Spanish.

This weekend, delegates of the Texas Republican Party voted to include a provision in their state party platform advocating for an immigration law similar to Arizona’s SB-1070. The platform also proposes “making American English the official language of Texas and the United States.” Nonetheless, the first video of a YouTube campaign aimed at attracting more Latinos to the party that was launched yesterday…in Spanish. Watch it:

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[TexasObserver]

1. This can be chapter 57 in my book "Republicans Are Such Assholes."

I'm just kidding.

I can't even read.

[kcass1954]

5. You're only up to 57?!? Geez, pay attention! n/t

[damntexdem]

2. I've never understood why they made American English the official language of Texas, ...

since that isn't what's spoken here, y'all. But I guess I should be fixin' to find out.

;-)

Or, as a former Texas governor said about making English the official language: if it was good enough for Jesus Christ it's good enough for us.

;-)

[awoke_in_2003]

3. I thought it was...

our "offical" language :)

[tbyg52]

4. They don't even notice their own inconsistencies, much less care. nt

[Igel]

6. The inconsistency is in the interpretation.

They interpret things this way: "Official" means the language of state and government, not of private discourse--or even public, non-governmental or official discourse.

Unless GOP outreach is a function of the state and federal governments, meaning, in effect, that the GOP is the state and federal governments or at least branches of them, then apart from official filings none of the GOP's speech production involves "official" uses.

Of course, that's really an subtle, slight distinction--state and federal government vs the GOP are obviously so identical in staffing, in policies, from the White House down to the legislatures in Massachusetts and Oregon, to the city governments in places like San Francisco and Baltimore--so it's easy to take it as a inconsistency.