7. Here's the thing about Trump's comment: they go well beyond politics and enter into the realm of personal insult.
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8. There are millions of undocumented Mexican immigrants is USA, almost all of whom have family in country that has some legal status.
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9. So to millions of people, many of whom can vote, Trump said: either you are a diseased, criminal rapist or someone in your family is.
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10. So, a huge demographic group, one increasingly important in elections, is being told: your dads & uncles are rapists. Madness.
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11. Most immigrants, like most people, are relatively apolitical & non-ideological.But they'll remember if you call them criminals & rapists
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12. Ordinary apolitical Mexican-Americans feel Trumps words viscerally. They won't forget them. Nor will they forget GOP's tepid response.
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13. "It's only July 2015. No one is paying attention to politics." True. But if you call millions criminals & rapists, they will notice
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14. I suspect, by the way, Trump's comments have allergic effect well outside Mexican American community, to Latinos & other groups.
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15. If you are an immigrant, you know there is a nativist fringe that thinks "all these people are diseased and criminal garbage."
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16. With Trump, you have this nativist poison not being uttered by fringe bigots but by a leading GOP candidate.
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17. RT @tieguy @normative wrote a good post on this post-Sotomayor: http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/05/29/a-sotomayor-core-dump/ … …
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18. Are ethnic categories like "Latino" a socail construct? Yes. but Trump's words help make social construct something salient & meaningful
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19. If you call large group of people diseased/criminals/rapists then those in group and surrounding penumbra will deepen group identity
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