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People rightfully throw shade at Fox News calling Latin American nations "Mexican countries," but, listen, I grew up being taught by people who said shit like that to a majority Latin student population. And it was legal. #ExposeChristianSchools
Let me tell a story: one time, my guidance counselor was teaching, and the topic turned to immigration. We students liked getting our bigoted or opinionated teachers off on rants to distract from boring lesson plans. It was really easy to get them going.
He eventually started talking about his Spanish wife. Spanish. Pure European. White as fuck. Let me emphasize: not Latina at all.
He extolled her as the perfect American for her "integration" into society. She refuses to speak Spanish even when people speak to her in Spanish.
And he happily concluded that this would happen to all of us, AKA, the 99% of students in his classroom including Cubans, Haitians, Dominicans, Venezuelans, Columbians, etc.
It was just one of many examples of the school not-too-subtly encouraging the erasure of our cultures.
