Both candidates in the race for Texas Governor, Republican Greg Abbott and Democrat Wendy Davis, are bowing to racial Balkanization. Both are running Spanish language ads that suggest Texas Hispanics have different collective interests than Anglos. Whoever wins the election, a critical point has been conceded: Texas is supposedly just a collection of racial tribes, rather than a real community.
A quick look at the websites of both candidates (herefor Abbott and here for Davis) reveals that each has a Spanish-language parallel site (here for Abbott and here for Davis). That’s not unusual these days. But it’s already difficult enough keeping up with the lies of politicians in one language—how are we to keep up with them in two?
Is there a 10 Hours Walking Through Harlem As Wendy Davis video out there yet?
I read the article and most of the criticisms came off as pretty thin-skinned and whiny. Some fair…but:
While it’s one thing if a candidate says one thing to one group and the *opposite* to another, that’s not the case here.
It’s more of targeting your audience (not even micro-targeting, I believe it’s called): that’s good salesmanship.
The “United” States is a thing of the past. We have become tribes divided by Culture and Language. How sad and at the end, America will cease to exist.
Why are there political ads in the United States of America in any other language then English?
I’ll take Abbott and Texas any day over the filth of the northeast.
Any pandering to any group in any language other than ENGLISH ought to be grounds for dismissal, disqualification, and possibly dismemberment…
!Ay Caramba! No me gusta.
CNN started keeping spanish chat rooms back in the 90s. I would sit in them during presidential debates. The CNN moderator/translator would routinely mischaracterize the Republican comments.
They wouldn’t translate what they said. They would tell the people in their chat rooms that the Republican said something bigoted about them when they didn’t.
This has been going on for a long time.