1. This whole "speaking Spanish" thing is mystifying to me. I mean knowing more than one language is a good thing! Spanish is a world language, the language of America's largest neighbor and many other states in the hemisphere! https://twitter.com/jbillinson/status/1144973537364590593 …
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3. Also, in Canada even national politicians who aren't fully at least make a fucking effort. I mean Harper's French was painful, as was Chretien's English (and, tbh, his French). Still, they tried and that counted.
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4. Also Rubio and Jeb spoke Spanish during the Republican debates in 2016.Did Stephens object to that then or did he see it as a sign that they were making an outreach to an important group of voters?
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Re: making "millions of Americans feel like strangers in their own land." Trump ran as a goddam birther & got the GOP nomination and, thanks to the electoral college, the presidency. https://twitter.com/BretStephensNYT/status/1144953169799262209 …
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Pssst: it’s the racism.
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remember how in the 2016 republican primary there was a common strain of thinking that latinos could be natural republicans and folks like jeb and rubio spoke spanish like, all the time
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Because racists see Spanish as a brown people language and French as a white people one.
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You have to be kinda smart to know more than one language. Still waiting for vapid
@flotus to speak in one of the five languages she allegedly speaks.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I think because Brett doesn't like brown people and doesn't want to be associated with them
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To be fair, English & French are Canada's legal, national languages. Maybe Spanish *should* be the US's 2nd national language, but it’s not. The distinction has meaning for many Americans. I’ve lived multilingualism (?), am all for it, but ignoring the difference is a mistake
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I have a feeling (haven't found citations yet) that in the 19th century, presidential campaign biographies & literature were sometimes translated into German.
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