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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Jul 2015
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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.

      1 reply 14 retweets 14 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Jul 2015
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      10. So, a huge demographic group, one increasingly important in elections, is being told: your dads & uncles are rapists. Madness.

      7 replies 13 retweets 14 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Jul 2015
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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

      6 replies 30 retweets 38 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Jul 2015
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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.

      12 replies 22 retweets 24 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Jul 2015
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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

      3 replies 7 retweets 8 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Jul 2015
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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.

      4 replies 5 retweets 6 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Jul 2015
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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."

      3 replies 6 retweets 10 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Jul 2015
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      16. With Trump, you have this nativist poison not being uttered by fringe bigots but by a leading GOP candidate.

      6 replies 6 retweets 12 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Jul 2015
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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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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Jul 2015
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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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Jul 2015

      19. If you call large group of people diseased/criminals/rapists then those in group and surrounding penumbra will deepen group identity

      9:28 PM - 9 Jul 2015 from Toronto, Ontario
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        1. Andrew Kahn‏Verified account @andrew_m_kahn 9 Jul 2015
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          @HeerJeet related: "gay" as a social construct and dawn of gay "class consciousness" in the 50s

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        1. Andrew Kahn‏Verified account @andrew_m_kahn 9 Jul 2015
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          @HeerJeet (Harry Hayes' term)

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Jul 2015
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          20. Trump is making Latino identity (and larger immigrant identity) more politically salient, in an anti-GOP direction.

          3 replies 8 retweets 16 likes
        3. TSRHG‏ @TSRHG 9 Jul 2015
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          .@HeerJeet Let the conspiracy theories that Trump's real agenda is destroying the GOP's chances take flight ;)

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        2. Andrew Kahn‏Verified account @andrew_m_kahn 9 Jul 2015
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          @HeerJeet question: do you think mvts that reject "social constructs" (eg queer) tend to be more or less successful?

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Jul 2015
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          @andrew_m_kahn Excellent question. I honestly don't know. We're just in the dawn of queer activism.

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        1. JHF  ☀️ jhfarr.eth‏ @jhfarr 9 Jul 2015
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          @HeerJeet Ayup.

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