I can't better this post at Instapundit by Ed Driscoll, so I'll just link to it. If I were of Latino extraction, which is a perfectly honorable thing to be, I should be quite put out by these people deciding first that I was obligated boldly to assert my ethnic identity in the first place, and also that I must stop doing so as I preferred to do and call myself "Latinx" instead.
Maybe I just want to be respected as a good mechanic down at the shop, go to church with my neighbors wherever they're from on Sundays and holidays, and generally just root myself in my community. And hey -- per hypothesis the community is apparently willing to accept me if I do. Fine. Great! Right?
No, it's a moral sin against the order of the day.
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Divide first, then conquer? Can't have the common folk getting along free and easy, they might get together and look at the shit going down on Capital hill.
Take away all the labeling and a lot of the lower class AKA working folk have the same set of complaints, left or right.
That was one of the big complaints the communists had about the 1619 Project, Raven. It made everything racial, not economic, and so was aimed at dividing the proletariat against itself.
LittleRed1
The writer Andre Maurois observed that people who are *intelligent* but NOT *creative* tend to be eager adopters of intellectual systems created by others, and to cling to these systems more rigidly than did the creators of the systems.
I think 'intelligent but not creative' describes a high % of the people in academia and the media. There is a system on offer which obsessively classifies people by race and sexual preference and which includes a lot of jargon such as 'multiracial whiteness' and apply all of this to all phenomena.
Never forget. Texas's Starr County in the Rio Grande Valley, with a 96% Hispanic population, went from 19% Trump in 2016 to 47% Trump in 2020. When some Demo/prog stalwart shouts that Trump is a racist, throw the above stats in his/her face.
"Multiracial whiteness" is just one more entry into the gobbletygook that comprises "Social Science." I am reminded of the decision I made while taking the GRE some years ago. I was having trouble deciding on the multiple choice questions on the Verbal. I decided to select the answer written in Sociology-speak, i.e., the most obfuscating phrasing possible. As my GRE Verbal came in slightly above my SAT Verbal, that must have been a good choice.
Latinos are just spanish, unless they're of the American tribes, in which case, they're American Indians.
obligated boldly to assert my ethnic identity
I'm not obligated to do so, but I do boldly--and loudly--assert my ethnicity, especially on government and business forms that ask the question: my ethnicity is American. Full stop.
What's...unfortunate...is the conflation of race (to the extent there is such a thing as a subset of species) with ethnicity.
Eric Hines
"...Latinos are just spanish..."
Not quite. Brazilians are Latino, though they're speakers of Portuguese, and potentially descended from the same. Hispanics are Spanish speakers, regardless of ethnicity or "race."
Not that it matters a lot. I get your point: lots of Spanish speakers from Latin American might well consider themselves white. Whatever "white" means, it might well include them.
I'm beyond pleased that latinX chick can just set aside a core part of my culture with her wokeness.
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