Could Republican immigrant bashing really be thinly guised racial hatred of Hispanics?

[The Craw]

The rabid *hatred* Republicans hold not just for illegal immigrants- but all immigrants sounds a great deal to me like thinly guised racial hatred of Hispanics.The venom is aimed at Hispanics-yet seldom if ever at the large number of russians or irish that are moving to America.

Michael Savage routinely calls Mexicans 'animals','mud people',and 'sub human'-I can only assume his racism extended to Mexican Americans and other Latinos. Savage is not the only one who describes Mexicans crossing the border as sub human- most right wing radio blowhards describe Mexicans as being less than human

Yet NOT ONCE have I ever heard them refer to illegal (or legal) Canadian,Russian or Irish immigrants as being less than human.
Here in Boston we have quite a few illegal Irish immigrants- yet the local right wing radio blowhards ignore them,but rather focus their hatred on immigrants from the Dominican Republic.

I'm wondering-could this be a big reason why most Hispanics voted for Obama- because Republicans were aiming some serious racial hatred at Hispanics?

[marmar]

1. Is water wet?

n/t

[frogcycle]

2. yes

no-brainer

it's the new jim crow

[Old and In the Way]

3. Don't see them too concerned with the Northern borders, do you.

Hispanic/Latinos are the new Black for the Minutemen who are the new KKK.

[Lerkfish]

6. actually, I think the minutemen are still the old KKK

they just have a better publicist.

[slampoet]

8. Not concerned about SF chinese, or the Irish in Boston and SF, or the Portugese or any of the other

peoples who are here against the law.

[deaniac21]

16. We have a huge problem with illegal Canadians?

[HereSince1628]

4. It's xenophobia, and it's directed against everyone who is not a WASP

Hispanics are certainly taking their share of xenophobic punishment, but it is also directed at First Americans, Africans, Europeans, Central and Southern American, South Asian, Eastern Asians, and Pacific Islanders.

[Lerkfish]

5. ""thinly guised"??? I don't think there's any attempt to guise it at all

[The Craw]

17. Makes me wonder what motivates Hispanic Republicans

When the white Republicans in power saw them as 3rd class humans...

[Cats Against Frist]

7. Um, duh? Or "doi," whichever you prefer

It's pretty obvious...

[mrcheerful]

9. Excuse me but where have you been the last 100 years? Mexicans are

brown people, Anything other then white republicons republicons hate. Remember mexicans are also seen as lazy shiftless drug abusers by the right. Here is a list of republicon hate.

1) afro americans

2) mexicans

3) people from the middle east

4) people from europe

5) english

6) people from latin america and south america

7)asians

8)democratics

9) jews

10) catholics

11) non fundies

12) pro life

13) poor people

14) native americans

15) smart people

16) fundies not involved with their fundie beliefs ( they will allow them in the party as long as they vote republicon )

17) gays

18) non republicon teens that get pregnant

19) young people that ask questions instead of following orders

20) anyone else that they see as a threat or stops them from getting what they want

Heres a list of the people republicons like.

1) themselves

[Mrs. Overall]

11. Wow, you've met my rural republican family in CA?

[mrcheerful]

13. Nope I just grew up in a heavy Baptist area and have been in their homes

They are mean, nasty, fucks that think they are the choosen ones and everyone else were put on earth to serve them. They are the first to accuse another of crimes committed against them, one family had their house broke into 4 times and pointed the finger at my neighbor ( he was a poor kid that broke into homes to steal food ) there was one small problem, he was in jail all 4 times. But I also had my troubles with them and one of the reasons I don't have many friends.

[hfojvt]

20. "People like me? People like me? I happen to like people like me?"

"I bet you do, and I bet of all the people like you, you probably like YOU the best."

That was an exchange between the conservative Alex P. Keaton and his future TV-girlfriend (who later became Michael J. Fox's real life wife)

[Julius Civitatus]

10. Duh!

It's always been.
I don't see them complaining about the troves of Canadians coming to the States every year.

[Greyhound]

12. Yes, and it obscures the real problem, that being illegal employment.

Illegal employment is easily solved, and in solving, removes the primary motivation for illegal immigration.

The fact is that neither side of this issue really wants to solve it, the parasite class wants cheap labor and the immigrant advocates want the numbers for their own agenda. It's like the drug war, if it ends, what will all those that make their living from it do without it?

[sinkingfeeling]

14. I don't think it's too 'thinly guised'. Pretty much out-in-the-open racism.

[Chemical Bill]

15. Many poor Central American immigrants are Indians.

Even the word "Hispanic" downplays that. Let's talk racism, shall we? You know the repugs hate Native Americans.

Bill

[leftofthedial]

18. gee, ya think maybe?

[arcadian]

19. I remember when Hispanics were being courted by the Repukes.

Not to long ago.

[hfojvt]

21. we have Russkies coming here illegally? No Amurikan favors that.

There are a couple of issues with the Irish. For one thing, they can blend in with the majority white population. For another, they only threaten to take our jobs, not to change our language, our food, and other aspects of American culture. You don't see food labels in English and Irish. When you call a business or government office, there is no option "for English press #1, for Spanish press #2, for Irish press #3 ..."

That wasn't always true though. In the 1870s and 1880s, there was considerable animosity against the Irish. But after that stormy beginning, there are now millions of Americans with Irish ancestry, particularly in Beantown, home of the Boston Celtics.

[Romulox]

22. George W. Bush and John McCain both supported blanket amnesty, so...nt

[bemildred]

23. What tipped you off? nt