Posted on 03/29/2012 12:23:56 PM PDT by gopcharger
The taco brigade in action.
Latino organizations dismiss George Zimmerman, question his ethnicity
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2865515/posts
“Todos somos Trayvon! (We are all Trayvon!),”
Here’s the good thing - whatever ‘white guilt’ I had left - is gone.
I think you’re wrong about Hispanics in Florida... give me a link.
Latino organizations dismiss George Zimmerman, question his ethnicity
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2865515/posts
I agree. That language is inappropriate, and just provides the hard left with ammunition.
“I agree. That language is inappropriate, and just provides the hard left with ammunition.”
Yes, we must play their game.
Because they have a constitutional right to be free of being offended.
Minor point but it was not a 911 call. It was a non-emergency number he called.
“Because they have a constitutional right to be free of being offended.”
Nobody claimed anyone has a right to be free from being offended. Your language is not helpful. Period.
“I don’t think tacos are even a Peruvian dish.”
Irrelevant. The “brigade” in question is against Zimmerman.
I live in Florida - you're wrong. Send me the link... really.
That’s a pretty impressive laceration.
“Nobody claimed anyone has a right to be free from being offended. Your language is not helpful. Period.”
Well, well. The free speech bar just keeps getting raised higher and higher.
Now, not only must it be “non offensive”, it must additionally be “helpful”.
“I live in Florida - you’re wrong. Send me the link... really.”
I sent you a link. What do I need to do, translate it for you?
Isn’t La Raza basically a liberal left organization? Hispanics in Florida aren’t illegals working in liberals kitchens and back yards. They’re doctors, professionals - responsible good citizens. Many conservative...
Putting aside my general disgust at PCness and annoyance over the fact that only certain groups ever get to be offended, I will agree that referring to individual latinos/hispanics/whatever as being part of “the taco brigade” would be wrong. But when you have agitprop groups playing off their racial/ethnic makeup for political gain, it is perfectly acceptable to make fun of their racial/ethnic makeup, in my opinion. More than acceptable, actually, necessary. Race is too effective a silencer to be misused, and people who misappropriate it deserve to be ridiculed.
You can’t hide lefty ideals and Democrat hacksmanship behind the racial shield, no sir. And if that’s bad pragmatically, so be it. Minorities already don’t vote conservatively, and playing the PC game will only make it harder to recruit them, since libs are infinitely better at it.
“Isn’t La Raza basically a liberal left organization?”
Basically? No, totally. And a racist one, to boot. Though for some reason they get off scott free, while anyone who identifies them as, say, “the taco brigade” might as well be Simon Legree.
“Isn’t La Raza basically a liberal left organization? “
And where is the conservative Hispanic organization that will stand up and defend Zimmerman?
(...crickets chirping...)
“Helpful” as in your language is not helpful to OUR cause of limited government. What’s it like to be able to read, but not process information?
“What’s it like to be able to read, but not process information?”
Perhaps it’s akin to being able to read, but not being able to keep from being offended.
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