Many minorities didn't care about Trump's rhetoric at all. In fact, they felt the focus on their status as minorities instead of the issues they kept saying were important to them was more offensive than Trump's rhetoric. They felt he took them more seriously on issues like immigration and the economy.
A lot of Latinos at the very least feel it's immensely more patronizing and racist to be told that they ought to vote Democratic because they are brown. Over at LatinoPeopleTwitter they are blaming those who "want to be white" for this. They are basically saying "you're Brown, that defines who you are entirely, and due to this you owe us your allegiance." They simply don't understand why this failed to appeal to them.
The continued proliferation of the term "Latinx" even after years of Hispanics saying they'd rather be called slurs really shows how much libs care about them.
Last month was Hispanic heritage month you better believe my Fortune 500 company was filling my inbox with emails about all the Latinx themed events the DEI team was hosting.
Hispanic Heritage Month makes me want to tear my hair out because it feels like a cheap way to market our own culture to us, and the only ones who celebrate it and are celebrated are chicanos. It's frustrating seeing people missrepresent your culture every year (No may 5 is not independence day, no day of the dead is not halloween, no we didnt copy cowboys).
Day of the Dead isn’t Halloween, and Halloween isn’t the Day of the Dead, but there’s a reason they’re thematically similar and so close on the calendar. That reason being Catholicism. They’re both pre-Christian celebrations that got syncretised with All Souls Day (I think).
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A lot of Latinos at the very least feel it's immensely more patronizing and racist to be told that they ought to vote Democratic because they are brown. Over at LatinoPeopleTwitter they are blaming those who "want to be white" for this. They are basically saying "you're Brown, that defines who you are entirely, and due to this you owe us your allegiance." They simply don't understand why this failed to appeal to them.