At some point can we address that a big part of this American Dirt problem is directly tied to the erasure CentAms + SouthAms by centering Mexican as the main (only?) focus of Latinidad and making Latinx and MX interchangeable in a way no other Latinx groups get to do, or
The outrage rn is merited but also, when people call CentAm, SouthAm or Caribeños "Mexicans" how many of us MXs actually correct + prevent those microagressions towards our sibs? Centering MX as the only experience in Latinidad has this particular brand of racism as a side effect
This shit is going down right as MX turned away a southern border they have militarized and the caravan they turned away were CentAm/SouthAm folks, mostly Hondureños (from the news). These two things are related.
I keep thinking of all the books by non MXs that Americans/Europeans call MX and how that has come to be the assumption. Yes, a lot of it is imperialist trash, but it is also MXs wanting the entire table and claiming any win that doesn't center MX is exclusionary or selfish
