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But this term is used in all major corporate media publications

Major corporate media also uses "latino", "latina", and "hispanic", so what evidence do you have that the end goal is to replace anything? It's just another term that's sometimes used. No enforcement, no replacement-- just you and Sarah Huckabee Sanders making shit up to avoid talking about issues that actually affect people.
Anyone else feel bad for the people of Dallas, Houston, and Austin for being stuck in that hellscape of a state? >

The local governments are so far left in those cities/counties that it’s not an issue.  If you know anything about the Republican philosophy, it’s all about local control.  They haven’t let the local control go unchecked, but Texas is very much controlled locally.  
Also, the Republican Party in Texas is willing to work with the Democratic Party to make Texas the best state it can be.  People are moving here from all over.  This is something that the Feds for both sides should learn from. >

This does not pass the smell test. Look at Abortion.  Look at Abbot.  Texas is a Christian white nationalist dystopia >

Just like any state, the big cities are not that, at all. >

These were states that were fine for years and then got hit by waves of people who bought into fear redirecting and felt their states were the “end all be all”. Then they started getting governors who did what they wanted and people let them. Soon they just brainwashed everyone in believing in them and here we are. Did not happen over night. Texas was a 30 year build and Florida was 25 years. >

The far right axis of evil. >

aka "TeaBaggia." >

Both governed with scientific ignorance and religious bigotry and homophobia. >

Axis of Evil. With the 5th and 11th Circuits nearly as corrupt as SCOTUS, both states will be the models for cruelty and malfeasance in all other Red States. >


With a dominant contingent of conservative Cubans and Venezuelans, Florida Latinos enjoy more power in their state and in Washington than Latinos do in Texas. Florida’s 27-member congressional delegation is 26.5 percent Latino. Latinos occupy high-level statewide and county posts and make up around 20 percent of the state legislature in Tallahassee. 
By comparison, Latinos are under-represented in Texas. Only 19 percent of the state’s congressional delegation—the second largest in the country—are Latino. The state Legislature is 61 percent white, though the state is only 39.4 percent white. 
There is, to be sure, Latino local political power in many Texas communities, especially around the Rio Grande Valley, but the state is run by primarily white Republicans.  
Republicans, once slow to recognize the explosive growth and potential political influence of the Latino population—60 million nationwide, the country’s largest minority—are pouring money and deploying their staffs to conduct outreach and gain their vote. They’ve had mixed results in Texas but success in Florida, where Latino-backed Republicans scored victories in the midterms, most surprising in Miami-Dade, a longtime Democratic stronghold. >

Who gives a shit, man? Like, it's a dumb thing to say, but people say stupid things all the fucking time. Why do you guys somehow think the use of this word is a critical issue for national politics? 
Seriously, I'm sick of hearing about this imbecilic shit. Come up with more relevant things to talk about. >

The enforced use of this word on the latino population comes off as very conceited. Why should they change their language to suit this American flavor-of-the-month cause?
On a grander scale, it is rather one small symptom of a greater problem.
>Seriously, I'm sick of hearing about this imbecilic shit. Come up with more relevant things to talk about.
This is a useless statement. >

Lol "enforced". Anything to feel persecuted. >

You don't think it's being forced into language? >

No-- I've never once been forced to use it in my life. I've seen it online and few times-- 75% of the time from folks like you pretending it's some major plank of the liberal agenda-- and heard it once or twice on NPR, but I've never seen anything resembling "enforcement" of the term. What does that even mean to you? Jail sentences and work camps for people who don't add an "X"? It's Qanon level nonsense. >

Well sure, no one is putting putting a gun to your head and forcing you to say it.
But this term is used in all major corporate media publications. And corporate media tends to drive mainstream ideas and thought(At least for now, their ratings have been on the decline for the last decade).
It's not hard to come to the conclusion that the end goal here is to replace the term Latino entirely.