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Harassing Latinos

From PopMatters:

You can’t be accused of harassing only the Latinos in the mall, you’d be harassing everyone – it just so happens that everyone’s Latino. And even better: if you do it during business hours, you can be pretty sure that almost no one you harass will be some easily-ruffled art patron, paralegal, or clerk of the Cook County Recorder of Deeds. No, almost everyone is low-income, and unconnected with anyone more powerful than the manager of a grocery store. All right, if you’re really unlucky you might harass the relative of an alderman. But the alderman of Little Village is going to be Latino, too.

See, all you really want to do is make sure anyone who’s going to complain is Latino. That way, anyone from the rest of the population watching TV who sees people complaining about Gestapo tactics will see only people who look like brown immigrants. And they’ll say to themselves, “There go all those brown immigrants who come to take our jobs, complaining about America again. If they don’t like it, why don’t they go back where they came from? You know, to that other, not as good America.”

The Nazis tried to avoid dramatic scenes where regular Germans could see them harassing Jews right in their midst, at least early on – they didn’t throw cordons around high-society balls just because a couple of Jews were attending. It always worked out better for the Nazis when they harassed Jews in the Jewish neighborhoods. That’s why they put them in ghettos, silly! Even European anti-Semites could be annoyed by being cordoned off in a block of cafes at tea time, even if it was in the name of ferreting out the dirty Jew, and don’t get me started with your dozen or so less-than-rabidly-anti-Semitic Germans – they had no stomach for that stuff whatsoever.

On the other hand, it is nice to know that the quaint custom of treating immigrant populations as animals to be corralled hasn’t completely died out in the West. You think Sarkozy’s doing so well in France because voters think he’s going to shorten the work week? Let alone make everyone equal under French law? Egalite? I don’t think so. Maybe Fraternite, as long as mon frere is a frere by blood. Liberte? Well, the West always has that. It’s the West! The West invented la Liberte.

Anti-immigrant Nationalism has never really gone out of style in the West – or anywhere. It’s just that with the leader of the Free World pushing discourse so far to the right – if you can call monarchy “right” – all right, pushing discourse so many centuries back into the pre-republic past, back to the days before Italian Humanism, back before Machiavelli saw a market for his ideas – it’s made scared, angry majorities nostalgic for the days when you could just round up the troublemaking outsiders and massacre them. It’s like when white people in the USA start singing songs about watching the darkies picking cotton, or when a group of Germans start singing “Deutschland Uber Alles” or the “Horst Wessel” song, they get all misty-eyed and long for the good old days.

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