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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@tieguy@normative wrote a good post on this post-Sotomayor: http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/05/29/a-sotomayor-core-dump/ … …1 reply 2 retweets 4 likes -
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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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@andrew_m_kahn Excellent question. I honestly don't know. We're just in the dawn of queer activism.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@andrew_m_kahn Yep, there's huge tension there which are now playing out.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@andrew_m_kahn I think Spanish language media helping to solidify this identity, and Trump's comment give it political salience.
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@HeerJeet@andrew_m_kahn I suspect Trump is not changing things significantly—non-Cuban US Latinos have heard the GOP dog whistles for years1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@andrew_m_kahn also, pan-Latino identity when under threat is not always new—@tfss is excellent on this: http://www.amazon.com/Latinos-Golden-Gate-Community-Francisco/dp/1469607662 …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes - Show replies
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