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Democracy Matters :verified:

Pot calls out kettle...

“We have to get moral values back into our country. And you can’t do that when you have a million people every couple of months come into this country that know nothing about God, that know nothing about our laws and constitution.”

— Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), on CNN.

@DemocracyMattersALot Tommy needs to know that when "caravans" set off they carry huge crosses & are blessed by priests. They call their journe "via crucis del migrantes," the migrants' stations of the cross.

I have the impression that, statistically speaking, in the US, Latin Americans are more aligned with Christianity than Caucasians.

@DemocracyMattersALot

@paulschoe @DemocracyMattersALot Well, you're confining yourself to the US Census which identifies Hispanic as not White. Hispanic isn't a race, and still isn't. White has been used interchangeably with Caucasian, but guess what--Hispanic is a language. Hispanics are Caucasian.

Do you have a better word to define 'White' and exclude Latin Americans?

What Tuberville insinuates is that the people entering from the South know less about God than (white) US citizens. I don't think that that is true.

@claralistensprechen3rd @DemocracyMattersALot

@paulschoe @DemocracyMattersALot The term "White" is a color, not a race, so that alone excludes people who speak not just Spanish but Portuguese as well, and 'way back before Reformation, the term "Latino" was an accurate label since residents of the EUROPEAN Iberian Peninsula were necessarily 100% Roman Catholic and we have the Spanish Inquisition to thank for that.

The purpose of the demographic categories in the U.S. Census has to do with tracking areas of discrimination according to the bigotries defined by the WASPs among us because they were traditionally in power and privilege for as long as they were. The Census can identify geographic segregation and connect the dots with geographic concentrations of poverty and overlay those in geographic areas where superfund cleanup sites and other industrial waste areas where such populations tend to be shoved into, out of "good neighborhoods"...which impacts how HUD conducts its business. Etc Etc Etc.

Hispanics are still Europeans whether they're Latinos or Protestants, and so are Portuguese, who really can't be called Hispanics although they're considered to be such on the American continents.

You aren't answering my question on how to counter Tuberville's ridiculous remark that people from the South know nothing about God, while I believe that on average, they are stricter believers than the White folks that he surrounds himself with.

According to you, I can't compare Latin Americans against Caucasians, I can't compare them against 'Whites', so how do I differentiate?

@claralistensprechen3rd @DemocracyMattersALot

@paulschoe @DemocracyMattersALot i didn't answer that question because you didn't ask it until just now.
The answer to the Tubervilles of the world is the NAACP, The Southern Poverty Law Center, and the ACLU. They'll all tell you that they've had answers to such boneheads for going on 2 centuries now. Good luck.

Good job: criticising someone who posts because you disagree with his definition, but even when repeatedly being asked, not providing clarification on what definition would be acceptable to you.

Proud of yourself for trolling?

@claralistensprechen3rd @DemocracyMattersALot

@DemocracyMattersALot ^^ This would be the typical response of the Tubervilles when facts are stated simply as facts. Facts don't troll, but those who get debunked by facts are gonna holler.