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In reply to the discussion: What Liberals Don't Understand About Pro-Trump Latinos [View all]Celerity
(43,341 posts)68. What does 'move to the centre' on immigration, terrorism, and trade mean?
Perhaps I might agree, perhaps not, but I have no clue what you are suggesting. I am more than willing to listen.
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and they don't see how the republican party squashes all of their aspirations?
NRaleighLiberal
Oct 2020
#2
No, since consistent racism hasn't touched them directly they don't believe it exist to the point ..
uponit7771
Oct 2020
#11
I thought it had something to do with machismo, I can see it is more complicated than that
Walleye
Oct 2020
#3
Yes, there is a serious gender gap, where Latinas lean more Democratic and Latinos more Republican.
TheBlackAdder
Oct 2020
#87
"..Did he word it correctly? No,...a" Bullshit, like many black republicans they minimize overt
uponit7771
Oct 2020
#6
He called them rapists and locked up brown children to punish their parents.
onecaliberal
Oct 2020
#7
pretty much with a shit tonne of religious bullshit tossed in, plus intra-group racism/prejudice, &
Celerity
Oct 2020
#20
Whatever the "religion" raising that level of self importance to the detriment of so many is the
onecaliberal
Oct 2020
#23
it's Catholicism mostly, so what do you expect? 2000 years of retrograde dross, murder wars, torture
Celerity
Oct 2020
#26
no, more along the lines of tejano, or bandera or mariachi or norteno or salsa or criolla, etc etc
Celerity
Oct 2020
#24
OK now, are you reading your own posts? Am I talking to 2 different
Guy Whitey Corngood
Oct 2020
#48
I did not interpret as a joke, but I still stand my my posts, as joke or not, my points are valid
Celerity
Oct 2020
#55
Ah, so you didn't say then the very thing you're saying now. Got it. nt
Guy Whitey Corngood
Oct 2020
#56
stating a fact is not a negative thing, nor contradictory of anything I said nt
Celerity
Oct 2020
#57
yes, Rump is doing better with Latinx in 2020 than he was in 2016, and not just in FL.
Celerity
Oct 2020
#27
I've always been confused at liberal treating all Hispanics like they are a different race.
GulfCoast66
Oct 2020
#25
"It all boils down to understanding that you are in charge of your own kind of predicament,"
Takket
Oct 2020
#28
Because over half of Latinos are white. This is a blind spot for democrats.
GulfCoast66
Oct 2020
#37
Yup, as far the racists are concerned, if you don't fit the specific bill you are "tainted"
sunonmars
Oct 2020
#65
I worked with a Hispanic whose parents had emigrated from Scandinavia - He was white.
Klaralven
Oct 2020
#91
What they don't understand are the types of socialism vs. democracy with social safety net.
Boogiemack
Oct 2020
#33
Huh. I guess these Trump supporters have somehow completely missed
PoindexterOglethorpe
Oct 2020
#36
He said that about Mexicans. Plenty of South American immigrants would agree.
GulfCoast66
Oct 2020
#39
We used to joke that Argentinians feel more European than actual Europeans. nt
Guy Whitey Corngood
Oct 2020
#50
I am not talking about how they see themselves. Or what they actually look like.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Oct 2020
#94
The dividing line among Florida Hispanics is whether or not they are foreign born
Awsi Dooger
Oct 2020
#49
moving further right is suicidal for the Democratic Party, the centre of the American political
Celerity
Oct 2020
#61
and if he manages to "win" again, we aint seen nothing of the cruelty coming.
sunonmars
Oct 2020
#67
Well if Trump wins again, I hope they are not surprised when they and their families are picked up
sunonmars
Oct 2020
#63
indeed, i've never understood Turkeys wrapping themselves in foil and hopping the oven.
sunonmars
Oct 2020
#72
I missed the expose on "What Conservatives Don't Understand About Pro-Biden Latinos"
maxrandb
Oct 2020
#75
If he had not chosen a black woman, I fear all hell would have broken loose. SC primary and then the
Celerity
Oct 2020
#88
Because most Hispanic folks are kind, intelligent, perceptive human beings.
Roisin Ni Fiachra
Oct 2020
#99
"Pro-Trump Latinos" brings back a memory from a Cheech & Chong show we went to in 2016.
trackfan
Oct 2020
#95