Leo R. Chavez

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New Books in Communications · Leo R. Chavez, "The Latino Threat: How Alarmist Rhetoric Misrepresents Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation" (Stanford UP, 2025) · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

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You know, we talk about fringe and mainstream.

They're about pretty mainstream.

And yet they perpetuated much of the Latino threat invasion.

rhetoric for for decades in fact in a way i almost think they helped start it and and so back in the 70s and 80s you had the headlines i point out invasion from mexico it it just keeps growing well you know boom did you invent that or are you just following the orders of somebody to say that but that's mainstream right and you know and uh

And so now, where a lot of people in those times would have looked at Time magazine because people got them in their houses, people bought them at stores, and Time magazine was something people had.

Those are dinosaurs now.

People don't have those.

And so if you turn on ABC News, NBC News, or listen to NPR, you might get some information.

But you might not, because you're not going to turn it on.

I mean, you're going to go to a source of information that reaffirms your ideology, and it's in a sense a fragmentation of information that leads to...

an almost impossibility of finding the sources, of finding ways of countering that information.

I mean, think about how hard you have and how hard you have to work.

Say you're like somebody who really buys into the rhetoric and turns on the right-wing news all the time and you're hearing things.

And I see people, they just repeat those things over and over.

How many immigrants are there?

Aren't there like 200 million immigrants?

How many do all the crime?

No one else does crime.

How hard, if you really wanted to counter that information, that was your sole source of information, where would you begin to look?

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