I think that Donald Trump is a provocateur and a buffoon. His shtick was old 30 years ago and he doesn’t have enough money to pay me to watch his TV program. However, I wish the author of this piece would explain a little more what he means and choose his words very carefully:
(CNN)Call it “Latino Spring.”
There were no mass demonstrations in the streets, but Latino protesters amassed online. Their focus? The hurtful anti-Mexican comments made recently by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Latinos gathered in social media circles to condemn, plot and retaliate against Trump with such fervor in the past two weeks that they caused three multibillion dollar media companies to back away from him: Univision, NBC and Televisa.
And on Wednesday, Macy’s announced that it was removing Trump merchandising from its stores after 700,000 people signed a MoveOn.org petition.
Trump’s remarks have produced something he and many others likely didn’t intend or anticipate — a galvanizing moment for Latinos across America and beyond. It’s a massive display of zero-tolerance for hateful remarks, and one that carries the weight of a rapidly expanding population carrying $1.5 trillion in buying power. Plugged in and bilingual millennials helped lead the charge. It was the first time in the history of Latino advocacy in America that such an effective response sprang from the ground up.
Does he really think that Mexican-Americans are in a similar situation to that of Arabs in Tunisia, Egypt, and Syria? That an idiot saying mean things is exactly the same as being hanged, shot, or nerve-gassed? If he doesn’t mean that, what does he mean?
I can remember watching MSNBC reporting(*) the anticipated Trump announcement that he was running for the Presidency, and stating that NBC was not yet prepared to announce whether it would continue its relationship with Trump. I just remember thinking that if they didn’t discontinue airing Trump programming, it was a game changer; but I think he made the decision easy for them, if there ever was any question.
(*) Morning Joe — some reporting, some networking, mostly good, if there is no Al Sharpton or discussion of gun control (**).
(**) Not that gun control cannot be an interesting topic, but they just sit in a circle and say guns are bad, check their iPhones and warn that bad things are going to happen to Republicans for not understanding this.(***)
(***) The art of the footnote is underappreciated.
Have you ever read Will Cuppy? You’d love him.
George Soros is the ground up?
I think there’s a really simple way to explain what George Soros supports or does not support and it has nothing to do with politics. Just think of how he makes his money. He’s a currency trader. Nothing is worse for a currency trader than stability.
No, I don’t think he means it is as bad as being gassed or shot. After Watergate nearly every scandal had gate affixed at the end, even the trivial ones. Deflategate continues that. We will now have to see every group action by some minority group, religious group, national group or whatever called their Spring.
Steve
It’s also a bit strange that “Latino” and “Mexican” seem to be used interchangeably.