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Summary

Trump's support among Latinos has plummeted as he nears his first 100 days in office, with many saying they feel betrayed by the scope of his policies, particularly immigration enforcement.

Almost three in four Latinos (72%) now disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job as president.

Many Venezuelans, for example, have been impacted by the decision to revoke their Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

“Today, I feel the same way I felt in Venezuela— that they're going to come take me somewhere I won't be able to escape from.” “This is completely different from what I thought it was going to be.”

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 99 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

I’m just so entirely unsympathetic to absolutely any minority who voted for the overt racist. Like, genuinely, holy fuck, you are genuinely not allowed to be surprised by his racism. It is now, and always was, one of his primary features.

And I have a special tier of bafflement towards the handful of Arab-American communities in the upper Midwest that apparently voted for him, and are now shocked that his policies are way worse than the absolutely horrible and myopic policies of Biden. Genuinely: How in the ever loving fuck are you surprised by that? He tried to ban any non-Saudi Muslims from coming into the country in his first term. How are you possibly surprised. HOW.

[–] LarryLurkman@lemm.ee 18 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I remember some footage of a Latino Trump supporter giving a black woman shit in Trump's name, and wondering what the ever loving fuck. A variation on Hitler's rise to power is how many figurative Jews threw their full support behind him this time. I don't get it. I'll never get it. I'm sick of his stupid fucking face.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I live in Colombia. People here self-identify as "white," and they're surprised that white people in the US think of them as a different race.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Then double their shock - a significant amount of those white people in the US will think your race is "Mexican." Never mind that you're not Mexican, have never been to Mexico, and that "Mexican" isn't even a race.

Logic doesn't matter in their argument. You speak Spanish? You must be Mexican. End of story.

[–] Liberteez@lemm.ee 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Mexican is just as much a race as white is. As in, neither are real races. A real human race distinction would be sapiens vs florensis vs neanderthal vs denisovan. All humans today are at least 94% homo sapiens.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

You're absolutely right - race is a social construct. That's more logic talk though, which doesn't matter to racists.

[–] jezabyte@lemm.ee 7 points 16 hours ago

They were hoping Trump would just hurt trans people. There's, unfortunately, a not small amount of bigotry in the USA's minority groups.

[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 23 points 21 hours ago

But the leopard promised so many great things. I mean, sure, the leopard DID say outright that he would eat my face, but I thought surely he'd never eat MY face.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 18 hours ago

The capacity of humanity to act against themselves is sometimes a wonder.