The Latinx social media world will never disappoint us. Within minutes of Mike Pence telling Tim Kaine that the Democratic vice presidential candidate had “whipped out that Mexican thing again” on Tuesday night, all was fair game on Twitter, as a quick search of the trending #ThatMexicanThing would easily confirm.
Still, outside of seeing Twitter profiles reminding Pence that his words just rubbed many people the wrong way, the “Mexican thing” exchange goes beyond just a hashtag. In essence, Pence’s insistence to move past “that Mexican thing” only serves to remind us how he and Donald Trump have been dismissive of Mexicans, Mexicans Americans, Latin Americans and Latinos ever since Trump said these words on June 16, 2015, the day he launched his campaign:
DONALD TRUMP: When do we beat Mexico at the border? They’re laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me. But they’re killing us economically.
The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.
Thank you. It’s true, and these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we’re getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They’re sending us not the right people.
It’s coming from more than Mexico. It’s coming from all over South and Latin America, and it’s coming probably— probably— from the Middle East. But we don’t know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don’t know what’s happening. And it’s got to stop and it’s got to stop fast.
It is really important to look at all of Trump’s quote and not just focus solely on Pence insisting that Trump said that Mexicans are good people. (For the record, Pence forgot to add the “I assume” words by Trump, which have always suggested that the Republican presidential candidate never really believed that Mexicans are good people. And if we want to get accurate, Trump never said “many of them are good people.”) The Trump campaign has always based its campaign on the falsity of a chaotic border and invading Mexicans, and by setting up that fear, he then connected it to terrorism and crime: “It’s coming from more than Mexico. It’s coming from all over South and Latin America, and it’s coming probably— probably— from the Middle East.” This has been the Trump Doctrine for everything else in his presidential run, and Pence will want us to believe that the whipping out of “that Mexican thing” is a non-issue.
But Pence is wrong. When you now have a Trump immigration platform that nows proudly cites “data” from the Center for Immigration Studies (just read this to see why CIS is a fraud), we should not be so dismissive. And unlike Pence and his supporters, we won’t stay silent, and we will remind everyone that we brought up this issue last summer.
What Trump said last June was based on racism, xenophobia and unfounded fear. “That Mexican thing” that Pence shrugged off last night will very likely be the end of a Trump-Pence 2016 ticket just like “self-deportation” was for Mitt Romney in 2012. The Republican Party just doesn’t get it and it looks like it never will.
“LatinX”? Seriously?
Another homage to MariX HinojosX and her pandering politically-over-corrected generic “La Tino” minions and their clap-trap?
I know this will come as a surprise to the conveniently anonymous “Rebels”.
But American elections are just that!
They are the province of US American citizens.
And it is really kind of silly and immature to suggest that MexicX or any other nation on the planet is going to dictate or make any demands of the US government, its structurally democratic processes, its institutionalized and vetted structural systems or its political leaders.
I think a little more time spent reading the US Constitution, its amendments and all of its democratically and formally-ajudicated laws and a LOT less time spent reading the Taco Bell drive-up window menu might help.
De vera’ que aqui llega cuanto payaso hay en “La Tino” Ville buscando su circo y monos en bicicleta.
Y como decia my abuelo Mallorquin…
“Mi’jo, el mono vestido en seda sigue siendo el mono en seda”
“LatinX”?. C’mon boys…it’s time to put down the graffiti spray can.
Greg Medina we love that you continue to visit our site and get all angry. We’re winning, you are not.
Oh you rebel you……..
Says yet again, the valiant and STILL anonymous generic “La Tino” rebel from his suburban bunker pawing away at his lap-top in-between texting hisTaco Bell orders for Mucho-Macho-Mega gluten-free burritos with extra “salsita” y “papitas”.
One day, you might have the courage of your shabby “convictions”, but I think trans-gendered, hemophiliac, vegan Chupacabras will fly over Atlantis before then,.
Yeah, you’re “winning” all right…the peo-sniffing, anonymous ankle-biting, fan-dancing potato-sack marathon underwater relays.
Que poca cosa se han puesto…ONWARD VALIANT “REBELS”.
To paraphrase Marlon Brando…”you could’ve been a contender”…
But instead you settled for cyber-sniping and hysterical MADE-IN-KOREA plastic flag-waving and feeble macho-sputtering in your faceless, nameless internet masquerade following political hacks whose sole trade was to become one-sze-fits-nadie Halloween Costume Store “La Tinos”.
Regards to MariX HinojosX and her band of dancing tacos.