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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Forget George Zimmerman, Latino white supremacy is having its moment now.
“Latinos Can Be White Supremacists,” The Atlantic asserts. The New York Times traces, “The Long and Violent History of Anti-Black Racism in the Latino Community”, Slate delves into, “
The Roots of Latino White Supremacy” and The New Yorker profiles, “The Rise of Latino White Supremacy”.
None of these articles mention Jose Vasconcelos, the ‘Mexican’ politician and thinker who created the term La Raza Cosmica, giving us the La Raza movement, and who propagandized for Nazi Germany. Much like the KKK roots of the Democrats, it would be politically inconvenient to note that the party staked its bet on the racial nationalism of Latino and black movements to take over America. But that’s what identity politics is under its thin disguise of fighting racism.
If Mauricio Garcia, the Texas mall shooter whose rampage set off a corresponding media rampage about the threat of Latino white supremacy, did indeed have Swastika and SS tattoos, there would be nothing extraordinary about that. From Vasconcelos to Eva Peron, the subject of a Hollywood movie and musical, plenty of Latino political figures were Nazi collaborators. There was no contradiction in that. Latinos are southern europeans immigrants and there was no reason not to consider them members of the Aryan race. Or to consider them oppressed.
The Left wants to opportunistically reimagine Latinos as both white supremacists and oppressed minorities. This is the same intersectional trick it’s trying to pull with feminism, treating women as oppressed when dealing with men, but as oppressors when it comes to men in dresses. Gay men are victims outside the LGBT movement, but oppressors inside it. This hierarchical victimocracy is at the core of intersectionality which treats everyone as victim and victimizer.
Minority groups tricked into believing that they were being given power are discovering that they are only useful as weapons against white heterosexual men and that otherwise they’re oppressors. But the real oppressors are the ones who get to decide who is a victim. Those who define the hierarchy are the ones who have all the power. Splitting the atom of victimhood makes everyone an oppressor and subservient to Diversity, Inclusion and Equity machine..
The Left cannot and should not be allowed to have it both ways. Latinos can be either oppressed people of color or white supremacists, what they absolutely cannot be is both.
“Being white and being Latino are not mutually exclusive,” a New York Times op-ed grudgingly admits the obvious. Then why have a Latino racial category at all? Federal law confusingly defines Latinos or Hispanics as an ethnicity, even while many states and cities treat them as a race. And yet around 40% of Latinos define themselves as a race on census questions.
The Biden administration is proposing to treat Muslims as a separate race defined by the MENA category and to create a Hispanic or Latino category. All of this will be pushed forward by Robert Santos, Biden’s census bureau appointee, who has a past with La Raza. Santos is a big proponent of a Hispanic or Latino racial category.
The problem with racial categories is that they carry with them the presumption of an oppressed minority group. That’s certainly not true of Latinos in Latin America who, like Muslims, are a majority in their home countries, and are on the way to becoming a majority in America.
Can Latinos can be members of another race and white supremacists at the same time?
What the new “Latino white supremacist” push really proves is that racial categories are absurd nonsense and that the federal government should stop tracking them. And it’s not just Latinos.
Barack Obama and Kamala Harris built political careers on feigning an unconvincing black racial identification based on absent foreign fathers they barely have a relationship with. The absurdity of these privileged wealthy politicians claiming to be members of an oppressed group jumped the shark when Kamala, a San Francisco socialite raised by a wealthy globe-trotting Brahmin mother, claimed that she was a victim of racial segregation in California.
We never actually lived in the imaginary black-and-white society that the civil rights movement pretended that we did. And we certainly don’t exist in it now. America is a racially mixed society where achievement is not predicted on race except for those who want it to be. Southern Europeans who oscillate between white supremacists and oppressed minorities are just the most ridiculous example of trying to apply the paradigm of the civil rights movement in 2023.
Racial categories serve no function except to divide Americans. It’s time to get rid of them.
Whether Latinos want to be a race, an ethnicity or a band is entirely up to them. It is not the business of any government authority to track such things. In the name of dismantling racism, Americans have spent three generations living under a pernicious system for tracking race and dispensing privileges based on race. And, like most racial systems, it’s based on fraud.
Would Senator Elizabeth Warren have built her career on a fraudulent Indian identity if there weren’t ample rewards waiting for those who claim to be another race? Would Rachel Dolezal have headed an NAACP chapter if our fake racial categories didn’t reward real or fake races?
The Latino racial category is Dolezal and Warren writ large. It’s white people claiming minority status and scoring massive benefits from it. There are cultural reasons that Latinos want to self-define as non-white or white, but such self-definitions have no objective basis to them. If Latinos can self-define their race based on whatever their politics or ideology is right now, then shouldn’t everyone also be able to pick whatever race they’re feeling like at any given moment?
A Latino racial category makes ‘transracialism’ or the conviction that someone is a different race inescapable and legally undeniable. Genetic analysis already shows that much of the population has genetic origins from all over the place. Anyone who really wants to can use selective testing to argue that they are a member of any group, Latino, Jewish, Indian or black, they choose to be.
The La Raza racial category dates back to the insistence by Vasconcelos that being a mixed race is a separate race. But, if so, then Americans are becoming an even more mixed race.
American should appear as a racial category alongside Hispanic or Latino. Latinos are a race in the same geographic, cultural and nationalistic sense that Americans are a race. There’s a far more credible argument to be made that the American mix of English, Irish, German,. Scottish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Swedish, Jewish, Indian and black are a truer mixed race than Latinos who still trace the majority of their DNA to the Iberian peninsula.
The only science behind treating Latinos as a separate race is political science.
Democrats hoped to make Latinos the cornerstone of a national one-party system through demographic change. That’s why Democrats still champion open borders and illegal migration. It’s why millions pour through the southern border and are resettled to transform America.
But Democrats and their media are also slowly realizing that the same strategy that worked in California may be faltering in Texas and Florida, and that, unlike black voters, Latinos are a more mixed group with different agendas and less of a tendency toward the bloc vote. Open borders are not just a scheme to replace Americans, but to replace older Latino immigrants with fresh arrivals who don’t speak English and will sign whatever the ballot harvesters tell them to.
But even that’s not working as reliably or systemically as the leftist movement had hoped.
The Left is trying to subdivide Latinos into good and bad categories that are seemingly based on race, but are actually derived from cultural ideology. The New Yorker’s profile on “The Rise of Latino White Supremacy” argues that “seventeen thousand people have been killed by guns in this country. Meanwhile, there are more than sixty million Latinos in the United States, and, motivated by extremism or a sense of fear, they’ve bought a lot of guns in the past few years.”
Latinos buy guns. People are killed by guns. Therefore Latinos who buy guns must be white supremacists. This dumb bigotry is deeply revealing of the hypocritical double standards from which the separate racial categories are derived. Latinos who don’t own guns are oppressed peoples of color while those who buy guns must be white supremacists.
Leftist identity politics argues that the only real minorities are leftists. Or non-gun-buyers.
Do we really need a racial category to define gun-buyers as white supremacists and non-gun-buyers as oppressed peoples of color?
Do we really need a racial category that is exclusively limited to leftists?
I am so tired of this endless talk about race!
I wish we could judge people by their character. I also wish I were 50 years younger! 🙂
I believe “Latinos are southern europeans immigrants” is incorrect. Most Mexicans etc. have Indian (feather) and Spanish blood in varying proportions.
All races favor their own kind. Whites need to do the same, or they will be marginalized.
Which whites? There are different kinds of whites and historically they persecuted and killed each other because they were from different tribes, nationalities, religions or denominations, or from different parts of a country.
Even if every single American were white or English Protestant even, do you think that would solve the problem of collectivism? The Church of England persecuted the Puritans so that the Puritans left for America, and no sooner did they land in America when they started persecuting each other. Individualism is the ONLY antidote for any form of collectivism be it racism, tribalism, or socialism.
“Individualism regards man—every man—as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful coexistence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights—and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members…
America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more—and nothing less. The rest—everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything “noble and just,” and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history—was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle.” – Ayn Rand
“Even if every single American were white or English Protestant even, do you think that would solve the problem of collectivism?”
Which “problem of collectivism?”
Those who insist on “individualism,” while all other groups form teams, will be marginalized.
Latinos who still trace the majority of their DNA to the Iberian peninsula….
That only applies to certain countries like Uruguay, Chile and Argentina. Most of the population is heavily indian to one degree or another. And in countries like Colombia, Peru and Panama, the black presence is large.
Those are the numbers for Latinos doing paid genetic testing in the U.S.
That also tends to be a population that has more money and has been here longer. Not the numbers you would probably get if you did random genetic testing in Brazil.
Latinos are supposedly midway between whites and black as far as average IQ scores go.
How about we make a trade? The Left can count Latinos as “white” and we can include the in all discussions of the racial demographic make-up of the U.S. as “white” and not a racial minority. Oops, there goes the Left’s “majority minority” country mantra.
For the 2000 census, the one category for me as defined (all grandparents from northeast Spain) would have been “Hispanic” as it excluded people from Spain as European whites. Since Spain was at some point part of the Roman Empire (and people were so fond of hyphenating back then) I marked “Other” and wrote “Roman-American”. They corrected the categories by 2010 and 2020 but my family and I remained consistent.
Recently I pointed out the possibility that the influx of Venezuelans might not be the docile Dem-voting type but more like the anti-Communist Cubans of years past.
I noticed an article on CNN recently that complained that Hispanics are quickly becoming white, which is what they call the conservative/libertarian/traditionalist disposition. According to the article Jews weren’t white, Italians weren’t white, Slavs weren’t white, but they all became white. They worried the migration from the south was heading the same way. Let’s hope or better yet, let’s educate our new arrivals.
Thats so bizarre. And poor Michael Jackson didn’t know there was a simpler way to do this.
He could have just become a Republican. That would do it.
BARACK OBAMA = OPEN BORDERS TO FINISH OFF MIDDLE AMERICA. DID IT WORK???
“The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration’s close coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington Times
“Make no mistake about it: the Latino community holds this election in your hands. Some of the closest contests this November will be in states like Florida, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico — states with large Latino populations.” PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA
“I know how powerful this community is. Just think how powerful you could be on November 4th if you translate your numbers into votes.” PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA
…..and regarding IQ what do we make of people so short sighted that they flee communism and poverty, trek here and then vote FOR communism and poverty (for a few immediate handouts)? That is not a sign of generous IQ points in any language.
Not to be pedantic, but they weren’t fleeing communism, they fled the effects of communism. Unfortunately, these rather simple-minded people dont see the connection between cause (communism) and effect (corruption, arbitrary ‘justice’, shortages and poverty). They come to America, accept handouts (redistributive policies), being told where to live and how to vote and simply get more of what they fled.
For those of us who are believers of the Bible and at last count thats billions of us there is only one race, the human race. We are made in the image of God and “every people group on earth can genetically trace their origins to Noah and his three sons.” Read “Traced” by Dr Nathaniel T Jeanson
The truth will set you free!
This nonsense about white supremacy among Latinos is predicated on the dubious — and racist — principle that racism is essentially a white phenomenon. It’s not.
The left’s hierarchy of victim and victimizer can be thought of as an elaborate game of paper, scissors, Rock. Of course they’re still working out the rules, and always will be.
A big area where the democrat party’s strategy is hitting a snag from Texas on in the SE, is that hispanics own and operate most of the small construction and maintenance businesses out here, and comprise almost all of their skilled and unskilled labor. They depend on the middle class of whatever race or ethnicity having the means and desire to build, improve, and maintain their homes and businesses.
They and their families depend on economic freedom, opportunity, law and order, and a fertile economy. They came here to prosper, and to do so on their own merits and hard work. Exactly the kind of small business owners and blue collar workers dems have thrown under the bus.