Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)
Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

@antoniogm

4 Tweets 1 reads Jul 18, 2022
I don’t usually do the dunking thing, but this is so colossally stupid (and representative) it begs for a comment.
This is a common sentiment on the left, muddying the discourse on what was clearly a fiasco, with their pet obsessions of racism and power.
It’s also brain dead.
Read the Uvalde report: Captain Arredondo, Lt. Martinez, Lt. Hernandez…
Who does Amy, and her bien-pensant progressive friends, think does the law enforcement in places like the TX border area? Over half of Border Patrol is Hispanic. The police department is clearly similar.
This is all a projection of their own homogeneous and ultimately provincial lives: her and her audience are elites living in expensive redoubts with “In this house…” signs on their lawns, thinking they’re rescuing minorities from other whites they (self-)loathe so much.
They’ve never actually lived in regions (TX, Miami, etc) where the power structure is anything but elite whites. It’s a competition among themselves to be the most tolerant-seeming while also treating minorities like props. They say ‘LatinX’ with a straight face.

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