I once suddenly saw a Harley motorcycle parked in central Mexico in front of a bar. It was painted. It had swastikas all over, a buste painting of Hitler on the gas tank and a whole lot more third riech shit.
I decided to wait out the Arian asshole that would take it for a spin but imagine my surprise when this tiny very dark skinned indigenous guy somewhere in his 50s walks out wearing a jacket with Goebels painted on the back, he jumpy up the motor cycle and takes off.
The guy would have been at the front of the line to the showers, but whatever. I’m always really impressed with people not knowing basic history.
Reminds me as well, I once saw (also in a Mexican store) mein kampf right next to Anne Frank’s diary, “because they’re about the same subject matter”
Did I mention that one time while playing paintball with mexican police, one of the officers takes off his shirt and he’s full American history X with the swastika and some SS tattoos on his chest?
Yeah mexico needs to uppen it’s education about WWII
It’s not that surprising. I have this same feeling with other Hispanics when they’re Catholic. Like you know why you’re Catholic right? The ones that weren’t were murdered, tortured, or jumped off cliffs.
I live in Canada. We live in a community that is very close to a large reservation. The volume of extremely religious Catholic natives is astounding. You know that religion has helped exterminate your race for hundreds of years. Damn.
Cubans in Florida pushing for Trump was not on my bingo card, for sure.
I also remember seeing “general chat lobby” spammers switching from the boilerplate racism tropes to Portuguese and learning about Brazilian troll farms.
They fled Cuba after Bastilles fall and Cubas oppression from the communists so it makes some, unfortunate, sense that they support the orange man.
This is so old, I remember when most people’s memories of Adolf crimes were still really fresh, Idi Amin put up a statue of Hitler. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin
Most Hispanic people are highly balkanized and consider themselves to be “the good hispanics”.
They are ripe to adopt fascism because their identity was forged by a system of Spanish-Catholic authoritarianism.
I wouldn’t say most, but there’s still a relevant part of the country that thinks that way. However, the young Spaniard generations are way more radicalised to the left, maybe to be reactionary. In any case, all the left powers have united quite tightly against the extreme right, so there’s that I guess.
There are always members of marginalized groups that try and align with what they see as the way to get ahead, so even if that group sees them as less, it’s still better than the ethnic group they belong to is seen by that hate group.
Look at POC in groups like the Proud Boys for example.
Fascists will court any group they can when they’re desperate for supporters, even if it’s from groups of people they hate. Fascists will do anything that will get them into power.
After that, it’s a simple matter of purging the “undesirables” from the party.
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Because propaganda is something else. We have a term for them, “morenazis” (something like brown-skin nazis").
One of the reasons I got so bored with Reddit is that in the largest sub of my country, r/Colombia, there’s a clusterfuck of right-wing neckbeards obsessed with politics who truly believe the world and the country is as they learn from it from social media (not only from Twitter or Facebook, but even from Reddit and 4chan themselves) and live inside a bubble, most probably protected by mommy and daddy. I recall those morons making fun of people watching open air TV because they think everybody should be watching streaming services, in a country where about half of the people don’t have access to the internet, another chunk don’t even have a TV and there’s people with no access to electricity at all. Hell, at this very moment there are kids dying from hunger. At the time I left they even created at least a couple more subs to openly ventilate their stupidity, r/ColombiaReddit and r/ChomposCol.
So, it’s kind of privileged and near-sighted people with the IQ of a potato blaming less fortunate people for issues their class have caused in the first place.
Spanish people are Europeans; all native Europeans are considered white. Hispanics are people who have Spanish heritage but born elsewhere, and are still considered white. Unless they are Latino, then that means they are mixed with Native Americans [South &/or North America] or black Caribbean enslaved ancestors.
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Right. “Latino” means different things in different countries. Isabel Allende once wrote something to the effect that upon immigrating to the US from Chile, she was surprised to learn that she was no longer “white,” and instead was “latina.”
not going to break down every flaw in this, but… black Caribbean enslaved ancestors?
no, more african slaves were brought directly to south america than to north america…
it’s actually much closerbro the native whites of England weren’t even considered white. Gypsies were often written about as being “worse than blacks,” as were the irish, scots, polacks, etc. “unless they’re latino” fuckin igno, man.
