Posts Tagged ‘hate’
Saundering Across Borders: Laughter from the VivirLatino Inbox
8:47 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Bizarro|From the Inbox|Funny|Immigration · 1 Comment
20 May 2010Hate mail and comments are as routine as breathing here at VivirLatino. I cannot even begin to calculate the time spent deleting hateful comments and emails telling us and you, our readers, to go back where we came from and to speak English (the fact that this site is in English apparently escapes them). Usually I ignore the comments and stupidity, pero sometimes, the idiocy is so great, so humorous, that I have to share.
Yesterday, VL’s inbox received a press release titled : “CALL ME CRAZY but Will Just One US President PLEASE STAND UP To Protect American Citizens”
It’s not hard to guess what the message was. Undocumented immigrants are characterized as stealing jobs and causing the economic downturn. Nothing new to see here folks.
But here’s the thing. If people calling themselves “Conservative Pundits” want to complain and send out releases, shouldn’t they be required to do a spell-check? By definition, a pundit is someone who claims authority on a subject. I cannot take you seriously if:
1: YOU INSIST ON USING CAPS IN YOUR RELEASE! There is a handy little punctuation symbol called an exclamation point. Use this for emphasis. CAPS IS CONSIDERED SCREAMING. I don’t need to scream. My words are emphatic and forceful enough.
2: You are historically inaccurate. The release starts off like this:
Is it me….or is it what it is? Since the first surge of illegal immigrants hit our country, not one President has had the cohunes’ to protect the citizens of the United States of America from…
What exactly are you considering the first surge of “illegal immigrants”? Where I’m from those are Europeans who came here. Apparently this person is using a textbook from Texas
3: You use the wrong words and render your argument incoherent.
Did you catch the mistake above? In an effort to use strong language, the writer of said release tries to use the Spanish word “cojones”, balls or did the writer intentionally mean to use the word meaning a type of palm tree and/or the nut from said palm tree?
Other laughable mistakes include:
CALL ME CRAZY but HAS ANYONE EVER WONDERED WHY GEORGE W. BUSH LEFT OUR BORDERS OPEN AFTER 9-11 TO ANY TERRORISTS WHO DESIRED TO SAUNDER ACROSS OUR OPEN BORDERS WITH A SUITCASE BOMB ON HIS BACK?
Saunder? I don’t know anyone who saunders across anything, including a border. Is this a new skill that the undocumented have developed?
and finally:
But hay; at least we have always had a President on hand to see it through to our determent.
Hay is for horses and determent prevents action.
You wanted us to call you crazy but can I call you stupid instead?
Latino Gang Suspected in California Hate Crime
10:50 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · crime|Los Angeles|race|society · Comments Off
4 Jun 2009
A family in Pasadena, California thought they were moving into the home of their dreams. African-Americans who had no qualms about moving into an all-Latino neighborhood called Duarte, the Davy family they thought both the home and the area had everything they were looking for. That is, until their house was destroyed from top to bottom in an allegedly racially-motivated attack. The Los Angeles Times reports:
Davy never thought about the fact that they would be the only black family on the mostly Latino block — until someone reminded her in a way that still makes her eyes tear and her stomach twist.On May 8, Davy opened the door to her home and was greeted by a barrage of spray-painted racial epithets. The hardwood floors, the mirrors, the televisions, the dressers — the vandals had turned the entire place into a canvas for that six-letter word used for decades to scare and scar African Americans.
Shaken, she immediately left and called police. And aside from one trip back to pick up some clothes, Davy has refused to return to a scene authorities believe was created by members of a local Latino gang.
“As far as hate crimes go, it’s probably one of the worst ones I’ve seen in my career,” said Sgt. Tony Haynes of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Duarte station. “They trashed the furniture and tossed drawers — there was pretty much no room left untouched.”
Chanisse discovered this terrifying scene upon coming home from picking up her daughter from day care. Since then, the Davys have been living in a hotel and are afraid to return to their home.
The LA Times reports that interracial shootings have happened in the past in Duarte, but no one in the community seems to have been prepared for something of this magnitude.
Earlier this week, Latino and Black victims of hate crimes in Pasadena, including Chanisse Davy, came together to demand an end to the violence.
Via / LA Times
“Build a wall” with “cheap labor”
5:44 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Media · 2 Comments
18 Apr 2006
Hate has a variety of faces in today’s media; you’ve got your Lou Dobbs, your Michael Savage, and a personal fave, Bill O’Reilly. Bill’s not just about skewering liberals with his double speak and accusatory “interviews” — he also likes to stick his bigoted friends on the show as well. MediaMatters brings us a delightful little transcript of an exchange between O’Reilly and “conservative commentator” Ann Coulter:
O’REILLY: In the “Personal Story” segment tonight, conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter has some strong views on illegal immigration, and here she is. It’s a big mess, that’s for sure. Where do you stand on it as far as what would you like to see done?COULTER: I’d build a wall. In fact, I’d hire illegal immigrants to build the wall. And throw out the illegals who are here.
O’REILLY: You would throw them out.
COULTER: I can’t even –
O’REILLY: You would throw them out.
COULTER: Yeah.
O’REILLY: So –
COULTER: Yes.
O’REILLY: The wall, I got — I mean, you’re being sarcastic with the illegal aliens. But the wall is –
COULTER: No. It’s cheap labor.
Can anyone remember a time when there was so much hate in the media? Cable news has done nothing but help feed this sort of thing. It’s pretty sad that when you sit down to watch a “news” channel, all you can get these days is a bunch of lamebrain hate-filled rhetoric and no real dialogue. Disgusting.
Read the whole piece and watch the video on the MediaMatters site.
Ann Coulter’s quotes on Wikiquote
Via / MediaMatters
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