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    Sean Hecht‏ @seanhecht 28 Jun 2019

    Bret Stephens, truly saying the quiet part out loud this time. While conservatives of his specific type loudly protest that they’re as far as imaginable from white nationalism and the “alt-right,” pieces like this one show why that’s not really true at all. /1pic.twitter.com/Wr0DKsR2K9

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      2. Sean Hecht‏ @seanhecht 28 Jun 2019

        Defining “ordinary people” in the US as English-speakers and not Spanish-speakers—& explicitly endorsing the view that Spanish-speakers are “them” & non-Spanish-speakers are “us”—is, at its core, white nationalism. /2

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      3. Sean Hecht‏ @seanhecht 28 Jun 2019

        This is especially true now, when Spanish-speaking residents are a near-majority in parts of the country near the border. But also, he’s implying there’s something special about Latinx or Spanish-speaking immigrants that makes them less “American” than other immigrants. /3

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      4. Sean Hecht‏ @seanhecht 28 Jun 2019

        Stephens ignores the vast majority of immigrants came to the US as non-English speakers. There’s no reason Stephens would call out Spanish-speaking as a hallmark of being anything other than an ordinary American—except racism. /4

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      5. Sean Hecht‏ @seanhecht 28 Jun 2019

        And his warning that thinking of today’s immigrants as fully deserving of our care will harm the Democratic Party falls flat. Here in CA, the GOP went into free-fall and hasn’t recovered from its association in the mid-‘90s with the xenophobic, anti-Latinx Proposition 187. /end

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      6. Sean Hecht‏ @seanhecht 28 Jun 2019

        Here’s the op-ed I’m criticizing, for reference. Feel free not to click the link!https://nyti.ms/2NiXXJi 

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      7. Sean Hecht‏ @seanhecht 29 Jun 2019

        I guess I’m not done here. Stephens is also wrong on the politics. Read here how nativist, racist action against Latinx immigrants turned CA blue & destroyed the CA GOP for a generation—a fact that certainly now motivates GOP to disenfranchise them.https://www.cato.org/blog/proposition-187-turned-california-blue …

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      8. Sean Hecht‏ @seanhecht 29 Jun 2019

        Finally: Stephens himself is fluent in Spanish. He spent his childhood in Mexico. His posturing about what “ordinary people” in the US think is just that—a posture. And this makes it even more clear that language is simply a stand-in for race/ethnicity here.

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      9. Sean Hecht‏ @seanhecht 29 Jun 2019

        Sean Hecht Retweeted Sean Hecht

        While you’re here: this thread is wonky but related. @TexasTribune still hasn’t corrected it, as far as I can tell. Fear of a Latinx majority is what is animating @BretStephensNYT or at least those “ordinary [non-Hispanic white] people” he’s writing about.https://twitter.com/seanhecht/status/1142828898582876160?s=21 …

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        Sean Hecht @seanhecht
        I’m generally impressed by @texastribune reporting. But they made a significant error in this recent article that’s been widely shared—they seriously misinterpreted census data. The main idea in the article may be true, but the reporting is very inaccurate. Thread here. /1 https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1141876388070395905 …
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      10. Sean Hecht‏ @seanhecht 29 Jun 2019

        Sean Hecht Retweeted Lawrence Glickman

        This thread, from a Cornell historian, analyzes the factual claims and presumptions in Stephens's article and shows that many of them are incorrect.https://twitter.com/LarryGlickman/status/1144941860995178497 …

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        Lawrence Glickman @LarryGlickman
        This piece is remarkable in that its critique of the Democratic Party for supposedly dividing the country into “us and them” itself employs so many false dichotomies. 1/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/opinion/democrats-debate-2020.html …
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      2. Julie‏ @Choose2Live 29 Jun 2019
        Replying to @seanhecht

        That is… truly astonishing and has an intellectual disconnect that makes my head spin.

        1 reply 0 retweets 14 likes
      3. Jeremiah Reece‏ @JeremiahWReece 29 Jun 2019
        Replying to @Choose2Live @seanhecht

        It’s not a disconnect. It’s malice and mendacity.

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