Maroon Dawn said:
I've long made the point that when Leftist tries to gas light you with "DEI isn't about racial quotas! It's about giving opportunities to equally deserving black and Hispanic students who get overlooked by a racist system!" simply ask in turn: then please explain the radical difference in admission scores at major medical schools.
OK, let's go through this as an exercise and, just for laughs, take their "argument" at face value. At some point in the "racist" system (that doesn't exist, by the way), slavery and Jim Crow are ALWAYS brought up. Fine. Even though we're talking 50 years after the fact, I'm halfway willing to just say whatever to that.
Where the hell did the hispanics board this train? In 1950, there were roughly 2 million hispanics (and that is an extremely liberal count) living in the US. There were 15-18 million Blacks and somewhere in the neighborhood of 250-400K Asians (etc.). Were the hispanics ever enslaved? No. Were they put into internment camps like some Japanese Americans? No. Under Jim Crow laws? No.
What they WERE was a strong voting block of the democrat party. THAT is why you hear "Black and Hispanic..." and that is why the rhetoric about racism against them is bull***** I'm not saying no hispanic has ever been discriminated against, but it wasn't institutional and it certainly wasn't part of the US for any length of time. They haven't been in this country that long.
This isn't simply gaslighting. It is a complete fabrication and anytime you hear that, you need to shut it down. At a minimum, as the question: "what specific racism are you speaking of and what examples do you have?" If migrant farm workers are all they have (and likely that's the case), you're not only talking a few thousand people TOTAL, it begs the question: is that what you think of when you think of hispanics?
