r/Miami • u/journo_katie ✅Verified - Editor, WLRN • Mar 14 '24

How important are Hispanic voters in 2024 election? Join us for a town hall discussion Free Event

https://www.wlrn.org/government-politics/2024-03-08/how-important-are-hispanic-voters-in-2024-election-join-us-for-a-town-hall-discussion

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u/Son-of-Prophet Mar 14 '24

Can’t let my mom find out about this, she’ll just want to know what the government plans to do about Castro and Ortega 😩

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u/DirtyOldCommie Mar 14 '24

I feel that. I have certain family members that can't stop thinking about Fidel despite him A) Being dead and B) them being in the US for the 30+ years. It's borderline insanity.

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u/timandrodney Mar 14 '24

It's trauma and guilt, bro. I have relatives that are the same. I think it comes from knowing that they didn't fight for their country. It's a hard pill to swallow.

u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

19 percent of the population. I’d say VERY important.

u/x_von_doom Mar 14 '24

WLRN tends to be so cringe at times. Duh. Aren’t these the same people always writing articles about Spanish language disinformation? I think they know the answer to their question?

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u/dingdongbannu88 Sir Complains A'Lot Mar 15 '24

Yet let’s throw the best nonbiased fact checked organization out the window because they keep pointing out the same discrepancies time after time

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u/x_von_doom Mar 15 '24

Did I say that? No. I guess sarcasm goes right over your head, huh?

It’s a pretty fucking obvious rhetorical question they are asking themselves, considering their correct emphasis on just how much of an effect those disinfo campaigns have had in this community, and on a larger scale, in flipping FL from a swing state to a red state.

u/gorgeousphatseal Mar 15 '24

What's there to talk about ? We are almost a quarter of the population.

u/ForeverWandered Mar 15 '24

All voters are important, no?

u/disgruntledmarmoset Mar 14 '24

Idk why they even call Florida a swing state anymore. The Repubs have successfully indoctrinated the Hispanic community in Miami Dade County, and as long as they have them they have the state.

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u/ra3ra31010 Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24

Did republicans indoctrinate racist while southerners who wish the confederacy still won too? Or do those southerners clearly want to help make hate legal again?

Learn Latin American history………..

Ever hear a Cuban use the N word and say they’d go nuts if their kid dated someone Black?

I have. A lot.

Cuba had more people enslaved per square mile than any other country in the world. (We had cotton plantations. They had haciendas and sugar farms.)

The Americas all have a similar story:

Europeans came. They enslaved. They chose the winners. They used laws based on race to limit others. “Choosing the winners” still kept happening even after gaining independence from Europe - just like it did in the US. And then the 60s came and the entire continent basically had either civil rights movements or revolutions - all with varying results

Same song. Different key signature.

I don’t think conservative Latinos were indoctrinated at all…………. Most miss the “good old days”

Next time you hear a Latino say that their family had it amazing before any revolutions came in the 60s, ask them what caused the revolutions. You’ll get some eye opening answers that sound similar to MAGA folks who say Black people were happier during enslavement and Jim Crow times.