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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts) Tue Dec 15, 2015, 04:20 PM Dec 2015

Liberal Hispanic activists assail Rubio, Cruz as ‘traitors’ to their culture

Liberal Hispanic activists assail Rubio, Cruz as ‘traitors’ to their culture

By Mary Jordan December 15 at 6:53 AM 

Liberal Hispanic groups have launched a new campaign designed to turn Latino voters against the two Cuban American Republicans who have risen to the top tier of the GOP presidential field — assailing Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz as traitors to their own culture.

Radio and online ads, social media posts and public discussions with Hispanic leaders in swing states are accusing Cruz and Rubio, senators from Texas and Florida, respectively, of fighting against immigration reforms, a minimum wage increase and other changes that millions of Latinos support. Many of the ads equate the two candidates to GOP front-runner Donald Trump, whose sharp rhetoric on immigration has until now drawn most of the attention of Hispanic activists.

“It’s not comfortable for us to do this, to call out members of our own community who don’t reflect our community values, but we have no choice,” said Cristóbal Alex, president of the Democratic-backed Latino Victory Project.

At a Monday gathering in Nevada of Democratic Hispanic leaders, ahead of tonight’s GOP debate in Las Vegas, photos of Cruz and Rubio were plastered alongside Trump’s picture, as all three were criticized as anti-Latino. A press release noted, “While Trump continues to grab headlines with his hateful anti-Latino, anti-immigrant language, the positions and records of the two Latino presidential candidates in the race are equally dangerous for Nevada communities.”

More:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/liberal-hispanic-activists-assail-rubio-cruz-as-traitors-to-their-culture/2015/12/15/9bcca938-a317-11e5-b53d-972e2751f433_story.html

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141289095

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Liberal Hispanic activists assail Rubio, Cruz as ‘traitors’ to their culture (Original Post) Judi Lynn Dec 2015 OP

Malinchistas Xipe Totec Dec 2015 #1

Chicano (male) nationalists labeled Chicana feminists and Chicana lesbians as malinchistas? FrodosPet Dec 2015 #2

Thank you for your comment. I would imagine you know exactly how the word is meant/used, by now. Judi Lynn Dec 2015 #3

Yes. And although the judgement of history may be unfair to Doña Marina, Xipe Totec Dec 2015 #4

After seeing your post, I scanned several online biographies. Very interesting. Judi Lynn Dec 2015 #5

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)

1. Malinchistas

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Tue Dec 15, 2015, 05:12 PM

Dec 2015

Last edited Tue Dec 15, 2015, 05:57 PM - Edit history (1)

The term malinchistas is used by Mexicans and Mexican-origin populations in the United States to refer to community members who "sell out," adopt the value system of the dominant culture, and implicitly accept the terms of their own subordination. These persons seek to prove themselves as exceptions and embody traits associated with the dominant culture, while they shun those associated with their own. Malinchismo may be defined broadly as the pursuit of the novel and foreign, coupled with rejection and betrayal of one’s own culture.

http://what-when-how.com/social-sciences/malinchistas-social-science/

FrodosPet

(5,169 posts)

2. Chicano (male) nationalists labeled Chicana feminists and Chicana lesbians as malinchistas?

Reply to Xipe Totec (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 17, 2015, 01:12 PM

Dec 2015

More from the article:

~snip~

La Malinche entered into the United States cultural lexicon under the influence of the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. During this period, Chicano (male) nationalists labeled Chicana feminists and Chicana lesbians as malinchistas. Chicana feminist and lesbian writer Cherrie Moraga engages these negative depictions in her essay "A Long Line of Vendidas" in the collection Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca paso por sus labios (What Never Passed Her Lips, 1983). Chicano playwright and screenwriter Luis Valdes in his play Los vendidos (1967) labeled vendidos (sellouts) or malinchistas those working-class Chicanos and Chicanas who become middle-class Mexican Americans closely aligned with mainstream, middle-class U.S. Anglo cultural values, while they deny their own Mexican working-class heritage. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Moraga and other Chicana cultural critics and literary writers, however, began to recast the icon of La Malinche as a positive role model for women. They have sought to convert La Malinche into a woman of empowerment and to provide new liberatory potential for the myth. While La Malinche appears frequently as a traitor and scapegoat from the male point of view, feminists in the late twentieth century reclaimed her tale as that of a woman who played a central role in the Western Hemisphere’s formation.

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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)

3. Thank you for your comment. I would imagine you know exactly how the word is meant/used, by now.

Reply to Xipe Totec (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 17, 2015, 05:15 PM

Dec 2015

Looks like it couldn't be more appropriate, in any way.

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)

4. Yes. And although the judgement of history may be unfair to Doña Marina,

Reply to Judi Lynn (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 17, 2015, 05:45 PM

Dec 2015

The word has come to mean what is has come to mean; one who betrays his own culture.

The story of La Malinche is fascinating in its own right but that would be tangential to the OP.

Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)

5. After seeing your post, I scanned several online biographies. Very interesting.

Reply to Xipe Totec (Reply #4)

Thu Dec 17, 2015, 09:58 PM

Dec 2015

It appears there are many different ideas of her and her life.

People aware of what became of the people, and the country after the Spanish invaded are understandably attaching negativity to her since she assisted them. It is amazing she spoke at least three languages fluently and had such a pivotal role.

Very happy to have learned where that word comes from, and how it evolved.

Thanks for taking the time to enlighten us!

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