Thread by @kateneuropsych

@welk_ann @duty2warn Actually it does but you'd need to do the research across multiple domains and synthesize. Either that or believe researchers who've tracked White Supremacy for 2 decades with advanced degrees in structural institutional and cultural Racism/Misogyny (SIC-R/M)
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@welk_ann @duty2warn known social, institutional precursors/dynamics/factors presaging/predictive of genocide, genocide prevention, post conflict reconstruction and clinical neuropsychology!
And you'd have to properly identify WHO YOU'RE REFERRING TO BECAUSE
1) The term Ladino/Latino
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@welk_ann @duty2warn refers to folks who are from Latin America or their descendents whereas "Hispanic" refers to folks who either speak Spanish or descended from Spanish-speaking populations.
2) Moreover, you'd to really know colonialist history to understand why a portion of the so called
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@welk_ann @duty2warn Hispanic" community actually identifies as White (European) whether darker skinned or not (see Henry "Enrique" Tarrio) b/c the answer to that question (doesn't account for Ladino Trump voters) is steeped in the White Supremacy of both Spanish colonialism & American White
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@welk_ann @duty2warn Supremacy. And whether you do or don't grasp the meaning of colonialism/colonialist history & how that continues today via SIC-R/M it should be evident that for any "Ladino/Hispanic" individ who identifies as "White (European)" to actually believe that claiming
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@welk_ann @duty2warn "Whiteness" (European), whether darker skinned or not, makes them White in the US, is both delusional and full of self hate.

Moreover to be Hispanic and aspirationally "White identified" in the US is to ignore the reality that the US White population, the
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@welk_ann @duty2warn US census and US police will NEVER SEE OR CONSIDER "HISPANICS" of any origin as "White", and for damn sure police & t/CJS ONLY see "Not White" & Black skin (with horrific systemic consequences).

At best you get a "symbolic whiteness" sticker and a nod which should
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@welk_ann @duty2warn inform anyone of the fact that, if Hispanic/Ladino, no matter what you claim, as far as White culture & US system goes, YOU ARE NOT WHITE. Yet because colonialist toxicity elevated (meaning coded into what is clearly US White Supremacist law with all the poisonous trickle
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@welk_ann @duty2warn down effects, you've a portion of the Hispanic & some in the Ladino Communities who believe in a cross over Whiteness, & they often vote against their larger Hispanic/ Ladino communities & their own best interests.
(See US 2020 census question posted at the end of the thread)
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@welk_ann @duty2warn No where on t/2020 US Census is there an option for Hispanics/Ladinos to ☑️ "White" & not even ☑️ "White Hispanic"; and even if "White Hispanic were an option, all it does (like the word diverse) IS IDENTIFY YOU AS NOT WHITE

So why is that?

BECAUSE IN T/US HISPANIC MEANS
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@welk_ann @duty2warn YOU'RE NOT WHITE (in case you thought checking such a box meant you were now White, accompanied by the automatic privilege and power)

And BTW (Tarrio follow up) the PBs will certainly let "White" identifying Tarrio do all the work for them & when no longer needed
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@welk_ann @duty2warn as the Proud Boys tolken "Hispanic" fascist poster boy, they'll turn on him right quick as "belonging to those groups they wish to eradicate (see McGuinness statements about NO MORE POC IN THE PB) ." (& the word for that is sucker!
This should come as no surprise.
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@welk_ann @duty2warn There's a long history of WP provisionally "accepting" Black folks & POC into their "inner privileged White sanctum" only to turn on them when those same WP achieved their goals (the women's rights movement, Micheal Steele the whole damn plethora of names of Af-Am/POC).
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@welk_ann @duty2warn The GOP has long cultivated ties within the White identifying Hispanic Community as they often consider themselves to be "the White cut above" however the GOP HAS NEVER SERVED THEM. Nonetheless they're convinced based on "White passing status" & money the GOP is working in
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@welk_ann @duty2warn their best interests ESPECIALLY IN RELATION TO POLICIES RE: CUBA, which does nothing for t/quality of Hispanic life here in the US. The GOP knows damn well if they don't exploit the Whiteness factor within the Hispanic community & White Supremacy period THEY WONT WIN FL TX
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@welk_ann @duty2warn and other States w/Hispanic/Ladino populations. The GOP well knows it's not getting much tread in the Af-Am Community & without the Hispanic/Ladino vote, they CAN'T WIN so they use White Supremacy in all it's dirty forms to appeal to b/Whites & Hispanic/Ladinosand it works.
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@welk_ann @duty2warn YOU KNOW WHY?

Because WHITE SUPREMACY IS THE PROBLEM not any of your other fancy whiteness explaintions and excuses!
(In fact that's only more of the same!)

And t/GOP continues their White Supremacy game of temporarily blowing "White acceptance smoke" up

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@welk_ann @duty2warn Hispanic/Ladino as-es and then calling it a day once elected.
That the GOP then does next to nothing for that White identifying Hispanic Community is almost inconsequential to them. The GOP knows they don't have to because particular segment of the Hispanic
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@welk_ann @duty2warn community "feels White" just by voting GOP. And that's all part of the White Supremacist con game bullshit!

As for (your second Q re: accounting for "Black" Trump voters) Af-Am we've been here far too long and know y'all WP & the system far too well so it's not easy
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@welk_ann @duty2warn to get any of us to buy into the temporary White passing card (& don't believe the exit pole numbers because as unreliable as pre-election poles are exit poles are even worse (see):
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vox.com/21552679/exit-…

democracydocket.com/news/revisitin…

@welk_ann @duty2warn democracydocket.com/news/revisitin…

wired.com/story/the-pre-…

&

washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…

95% of Af-Am women & 87% Af-Am men voted Biden so let's be clear: we're talk about a very small subset of
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@welk_ann @duty2warn the Af-Am population At best the small segment of Af-Am men who voted Trump (BTW that's a +- 5% estimated 12% Af-Am men so could be much much lower like 7%)

pewresearch.org/politics/2021/…

are often members of the richest or most educated untethered already
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@welk_ann @duty2warn already exploited Black elite who end up clowning themselves (again see M Steele, Kanye, Dr. Ben Carson & on). The bottom line here: B/c of their money, fame or intellectually gifted status they often gain (or imagine they do) entrance into the "inner White sanctum" &/
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@welk_ann @duty2warn &/or think "White infatuation" with their money fame or status bought them a seat at the "White table" and believed once there, they were now "White" equal because "look I'm sitting here too"; forgetting that they're only there because IT SERVES
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@welk_ann @duty2warn THE AGENDA OF WHITE PEOPLE SEATED AT THAT TABLE.

But once they leave, they're just another "thug" Black man (see Pete Rock, Chris Johnson, Warrick Dunn, Ving Rhimes, Dr. Williams, Dr. Gates, MSNBC & G-Town Prof Paul Williams etc ad nauseum, (See):
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theundefeated.com/features/being…

@welk_ann @duty2warn See):
theundefeated.com/features/being…)

because WP at that level often cater to Af-Ams while opportunisticly exploiting the hell out of all the work they've done, associated business contacts and noterierty they gain for themselves (see Dr. Ben Carson whom Trump used up trying to
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@welk_ann @duty2warn gain t/Af-Am vote but cared less about
1) the man's actual qualifications to do the work
2) didn't stop to wonder as I often have (as a Neuropsychologist; seperate from any political inclinations) "this is a highly intelligent man so what the hell is going on
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@welk_ann @duty2warn neurologically thats degrading his cognitive abilities such that he can barely put 2+2 together on a daily basis AND WHY FOR GOD'S SAKE ISN'T SOMEONE TALKING TO HIM ABOUT IT?"- Sadly, I already knew the answer: given Trump/GOPs agenda, Carson's way too useful as he is &
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@welk_ann @duty2warn they'd see him in the grave first before saying one word)

As for the overall thrust of your comment ("that <meaning White Supremacy> doesn't account for.....blah blah blah") see pre-WWII Germany for people & groups who were some what elevated in status when siding w/Hitlers
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@welk_ann @duty2warn regime against their own interests & those of their communities & how they too were slaughtered once Hitler t/SS & all those silent good Germans were done w/them. If you think I'm referring to t/silence, denial & white excuse making of b/WP & mostly White professionals here
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@welk_ann @duty2warn you'd be correct because this only happens if you continue with this untenable bullsh!t re: the

White explaintions and "poor White people they've been victimized" by FOX and crap.
You White refusals to deal with reality & silence is exactly how it went down in Rwanda
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@welk_ann @duty2warn Bosnia, Kosivo and Germany.
In the end, the masses of people are not those killing, they're the silent BENEFICIARY BY STANDERS (no they're not terrorized bystanders ; that'd be those targeted...)
I'm talking WP and predominantly White Medical & MH orgs that make all kinds
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@welk_ann @duty2warn of White excuses to stay silent about WHITE SUPREMACY and come up with other BS explanations because you refuse to see what's in front of your noses.

This is not now nor was it EVER about Trump. This is not now nor was it ever a cult. This is not now nor was it ever
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@welk_ann @duty2warn about FOX! Propaganda has always been with us and trust me the history of our propaganda proves that it's not causal rather PROPAGANDA IS MERELY A REFLECTION OF SOCIETY'S NORMS and the cultural norm in the US hands down IS White Supremacy.

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@welk_ann @duty2warn This is about the WHITE SUPREMACY that elected Trump and continues to elect GOP & the silence of denial that follows from WP and the UNMITIGATED WHITE EXCUSING that goes on cause y'all can't run to a microphone w/it fast enough "oh it's just this or that" (never mind you've
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@welk_ann @duty2warn neither the research backing or training to be making such statements as if fact based).
In the end it comes down to just about anything you can pull outta the hat to AVIOD THOSE TWO WORDS:
WHITE SUPREMACY.
And whether conscious or not, it's quite self serving
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@welk_ann @duty2warn because the beneficiaries are all t/same denialist excuse making silent WP.

It's 11:59:59 & you're already late catchin on and up; still we can't turn any of this around until y'all WP and predominantly White professional orgs
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@welk_ann @duty2warn supposedly looking out for the well-being of all people, TELL THE GD TRUTH.
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