Paola Ramos

And we are more American.

My siblings, my brother barely speaks, or my dad hates it, but he barely speaks Spanish.

And so all this to say that I think Trumpism also bets on that idea, that there is a small segment and a growing segment of Latinos that are so Americanized that they too can sort of buy into the us versus them game, to your point.

And it is true.

And then on top of that, I do think that there are certain kind of like psychological and like historic things that we have as Latinos that we never talk about, right?

All the racial baggage that we carry from Latin America, like it's so complex, right?

Like we come from countries where like the Spaniards and the colonizers institutionalized caste systems, right?

Where we have been taught to sort of see

ethnicities and race and in very problematic ways like we we do this like racial dance all the time we've our countries we come from places where we can like reclassify race and always claim whiteness because of the europeans like i can't say the amount of times that have interviewed like right-wing latinos from the proud boys like enrique all these guys yeah what's going on with that

Okay, so Enrique Dario, when you talk to Enrique Dario, he'll tell you, well, I'm 60% black, right?

Because he's a black Cuban man and that's their way of shielding themselves from being called racist.

But then he always says, I'm 40% European, right?

And that is typically when you think of like the right wing,

like, Latino manosphere, the entry point into these, like, white supremacist bubbles is always this, like, European Eurocentric direct lineage that we get to claim.

And they always do that.

And that is literally their way into that bubble.

What's going on to get that deal?

Nothing.

He's still a loser.

No, but that's what they think.