6:15 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Funny| Politics| language| race · Comments Off
23 Jun 2009…in English. From Think Progress, this is hilarious.

These fools were at a “conferenece” (!) arguing for English Only, spelling the word “conference” como el culo and using Sonia Sotomayor as the central figure for their ignorant rhetoric:
PAT BUCHANAN: Judge Sotomayor is up there at school in New York, she gets a scholarship to Princeton, she’s graduated with all these big honors and awards they said she never won. What’s she doing there in the summer? They said her adviser told her to read children’s classics so she can learn English better. How do you graduate number one in Princeton if you’re in the summer and you’re reading Rumpelstiltskin and Snow White? [laughter] [...]
Yeah…”so she can learn English better”… What tense are we speaking in? Nice grammar on you, too, Pat!
That’s a segue into a delusional rant about how Obama is out to make everyone speak Spanish:
PETER BRIMELOW: I really do recommend the language issue because you know that polls better than immigration and affirmative action. Eighty-five percent of Americans say they would favor official language policy. The wonderful thing about this issue if you look at what’s going to actually happen here is you’re going to find that the Obama administration is going to gradually institute institutional bilingualism in the country. It’s going to be required to speak Spanish in key positions, the police force and so on. This is a direct attack on the American working class because they are not going to be bilingual.
Right. Because Obama himself speaks Spanish so well.
WHAT. THE. F***?!
This is what we call in Spanish patadas de ahogado. The Republicans are giving up the ghost.
Via / Think Progress and Hispanic Tips (Thanks Tomás)
11:54 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bilingualism| Books| Immigration| history| race · 7 Comments
24 Aug 2006
While Pat Buchanan makes the media rounds pimping his new book, Think Progress points how the his arguments really are the same rhetoric used over time in the United States against various immigrant groups.
Immigrants will dilute the white race:If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built. No nation has ever undergone so radical a demographic transformation and survived. [Buchanan, p. 11, 2006]
VERSUS
The number of purely white People in the World is proportionally very small…in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are Germans also, the Saxons only accepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. [Benjamin Franklin, 1751]
Whoever said racism isn’t part of the national character of the U.S. needs to read all the comparisons put out there. Sadly hate never dies, the rhetoric around it just changes ever so slightly.
Via / Think Progressive
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4:32 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Immigration| Politics · 18 Comments
21 Aug 2006
That xenophobic freak Pat Buchanan is at again. MSNBC is running excerpts of his new book “State of Emergency” and they are nothing less than laughable. I might be upset if I weren’t ROFLMAO.
Chapter 2. The Invasion
“Will the American Southwest become a giant Kosovo, a part of the nation separated from the rest by language, ethnicity, history and culture, to be reabsorbed in all but name by Mexico from whom we took these lands in the time of Jackson and Polk? Chicano chauvinists and Mexican agents have made clear their intent to take back through demography and culture what their ancestors lost through war.”
And apparently Mexicans are responsible for — of all things — bedbugs:
Chapter 3. Coming to America
“High among the [costs of immigration] is the appearance among us of diseases that never before afflicted us and the sudden reappearance of contagious diseases that researchers and doctors had eradicated long ago. Malaria, polio, hepatitis, tuberculosis and such rarities of the Third World as dengue fever, Chagas’ Disease and leprosy are surfacing here …. Bedbugs have invaded the United States for the first time in 50 years, with 28 states reporting recent infestations.’”
For a real hearty laugh, check out the whole feature on MSNBC.com.
Via / MSNBC.com
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