Random Political comments...

They left out the rest of the statement "...which served as the basis for the salute most widely used in living memory by the German Nazi party in the years leading up to WWII..."

 

But we're not suppose to know historical details like that hence why the would be AmeriKKKan Reich is so anti- intellectual.

 

I get her point, but it doesn't necessarily make sense. The birth rates for educated people have been falling for decades. If educated women go on some kind of pregnancy strike, the people they oppose are just going to outbreed them and accelerate the MAGAization of the country.

I know it sounds kind of cruel to some people, but for any modern civilization to succeed they need a certain percentage of people to be a "breeder class" or they will face catastrophic population decline. In fact, the beginnings of that are already happening in countries like Japan and Korea.

If the left doesn't want to get outbred they need their own legion of stay-at-home moms. They need to start encouraging (and supporting) left-leaning women to take up motherhood as a viable "career" option.

 

They aren't looking at things by way of maintaining the population. They are looking at things from the standpoint of living a quality life. Both from their stand point as well as of children born into the world, whether they have them or other people do. It's also about freedom of choice to live life how one chooses rather than how "society" dictates how one should live. Simply put : Live & let live.

 

Protagonist's response cracked me up.

 

"Mexican people stick together?" He would do well to talk to the cartels about their sense of 'Mexican solidarity'. And someone should remind this Mexican guy that Latinos do not have a self-conception as a 'race'. The primary ways that Latin people identify is by
1) nationality/ethnicity;
2) groups of nations with a similar history/affinity; and
3) racial description / color

For example as a black Puerto Rican, you would generally identify as, in order:
1) Puerto Rican
2) Caribeño - due to shared racial, historical and cultural factors in relationship with Cubans, Dominicans, Panamanians, the rest of the Caribbean and some parts of South America that are broadly part of a cultural
3) a person of African descent - black Latinos feel some commonality with Afro-Latinos in all of the Latin countries because of the shared background and also with everyone who is black globally because of an awareness of what has been done to people from Africa for the last 500 years.
4) lastly would come any sense of 'Latin-ness' for everyone who comes from a Spanish or Portuguese-speaking background

Other than a shared use of Spanish, I have absolutely nothing in common with Mexicans beyond the broader traits I share with the rest of humanity. I don't have any animus toward them either, but the idea of 'Latino' is so overdone in the US contemporary discourse.

 

Funny how some people never acknowledge the people in their own "tribes" that cause harm from within when they are attempting to throw dirt on other "tribes".

 

It sure is funny. LOL