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Fawke Em

(11,366 posts)
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 11:15 PM Dec 2015

Clinton's "Hispandering" sparks Latino backlash

Last edited Wed Dec 23, 2015, 12:28 AM - Edit history (1)

A post on Hillary Clinton’s website meant to showcase how the former secretary of State is like “your abuela” — Spanish for grandmother — is drawing mockery online.

In a post called “7 things Hillary Clinton has in common with your abuela,” the campaign says Clinton is like an ordinary Hispanic grandmother because she “worries about children everywhere,” “reads to you before bedtime” and demands “respeto” – Spanish for respect.




http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/264074-clintons-hispanic-outreach-sparks-online-backlash

And we were told it was Bernie who was tone deaf. #FeeltheBern has gotten decidedly more colorful over the past few months. Lots of PoC supporting the Bern!
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Clinton's "Hispandering" sparks Latino backlash (Original Post) Fawke Em Dec 2015 OP
She is SUCH an inept campaigner. PatrickforO Dec 2015 #1
With any luck, we will never find out the answer to that worry. Proserpina Dec 2015 #2
A toast to that Scootaloo Dec 2015 #4
She listens to idiot advisors. That concerns me in a potential president. nt tblue37 Dec 2015 #27
Its the best Wall Street can do FreakinDJ Dec 2015 #29
Wow. Scootaloo Dec 2015 #3
Mi abuela only spoke one language, and it wasn't Ingles. Baitball Blogger Dec 2015 #5
seems positively JEB!-ian n/t n2doc Dec 2015 #6
Clinton seems to have entered the condescension phase of her inevitable meltdown Scootaloo Dec 2015 #7
She's about three weeks early this year. Fawke Em Dec 2015 #9
Entered? That phase has been evolving for some time. R. Daneel Olivaw Dec 2015 #11
She's Jeb-ilant about her inevitable coronation. NT. appal_jack Dec 2015 #12
No me Chingles, abuela. nt Xipe Totec Dec 2015 #8
She's doing this shit again? dorkzilla Dec 2015 #10
you think bernie's mgmaggiemg Dec 2015 #14
Keep trying.... Fuddnik Dec 2015 #17
No - the poster is talking about Hillary's fake Southern accent. Fawke Em Dec 2015 #18
You may have a reading comprehension problem. dorkzilla Dec 2015 #31
she's got her highest ratings with mgmaggiemg Dec 2015 #13
Well, she just lost that with this stunt. eom Fawke Em Dec 2015 #22
#notmyObaasan yuiyoshida Dec 2015 #15
Our hashtag is #notmygrann or #pasgrannmwen. vaberella Dec 2015 #21
this would be my grandmothers response ...heheh yuiyoshida Dec 2015 #23
Virtual High-Five. n/t vaberella Dec 2015 #25
Glad to hear she didn't have to go to the camp artislife Dec 2015 #24
Did she use that fake as hell South Carolina accent again? Fuddnik Dec 2015 #16
Yes she did it at the beginning of the summer dorkzilla Dec 2015 #32
As an Afro-Latina (Yeah, Haitians are Latin & Hispanic, Black & Caribbean - as well). vaberella Dec 2015 #19
Nod in agreement. nt artislife Dec 2015 #26
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Dec 2015 #20
Robert Reich Explains How DNC Is Royally Screwing Over Bernie Sanders BeanMusical Dec 2015 #28
What gets me is that she doesn't have to do that. She has perfectly good positions-- eridani Dec 2015 #30
I relate to her not as my grandma, but as my mother-in-law. thereismore Dec 2015 #33
Did they cancel the coloring book that was to go with that? Babel_17 Dec 2015 #34

dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)
10. She's doing this shit again?
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 12:16 AM
Dec 2015

Isn't the fake fucking Southern accent enough?

I've said from day one the biggest issue I have with her is her lack of authenticity.

Fawke Em

(11,366 posts)
18. No - the poster is talking about Hillary's fake Southern accent.
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 02:14 AM
Dec 2015

I'm Southern and I think the fake accent is horrible and only put-on to pander.

I'm also a female and there was nothing in that post that was misogynistic.

Finally, this is the Bernie Supporters Group. If you don't like it, please find your way back out.

dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)
31. You may have a reading comprehension problem.
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 07:13 AM
Dec 2015

I’m also not sure how to interpret your word salad.

FWIW, I know very well where Bernie is from nor I am not directionally challenged or disparaging the south, I am disparaging Hillary for her fake southern accent. She’s from Illinois. And I’m not a misogynist either, I happen to be a woman. Nice try though.

Lastly, you’re IN THE BERNIE SANDERS GROUP.

yuiyoshida

(41,832 posts)
15. #notmyObaasan
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 02:07 AM
Dec 2015

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#notmySobo

Born in miyazaki Japan, fled pre-war time Japan to Hawaii to be with her Dansei no koibito her future Otto (husband) who was partially Japanese and partially Hawaiian native.. to be a Yoshida family member. Her family afraid to be thrown into a Japanese internment camp, were later excused because they were considered Hawaiian natives.

vaberella

(24,634 posts)
21. Our hashtag is #notmygrann or #pasgrannmwen.
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 02:16 AM
Dec 2015

All of our immigrant mothers went through so much and suffered so much to be turned into a meme by this woman pissed me the fuck off.

 

artislife

(9,497 posts)
24. Glad to hear she didn't have to go to the camp
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 02:27 AM
Dec 2015

Such a sad scar to the people here in the PNW.

I buy flowers from a woman, who learned from her aunties about flowers. That was what they could do for cash after the were released from the camps. They lost everything. Very sad.

dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)
32. Yes she did it at the beginning of the summer
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 07:15 AM
Dec 2015

June I think - I was pruning roses and listening to the radio so that’s why its in my head. I’m too lazy to google it.

I think she may have done again in the fall, but I heard that when I was at a diner that had Fox on so I can’t be sure.

vaberella

(24,634 posts)
19. As an Afro-Latina (Yeah, Haitians are Latin & Hispanic, Black & Caribbean - as well).
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 02:14 AM
Dec 2015

I was insulted. It was my abuela but my grann...she is way off the mark. I was insulted. As a minority to me this was a reflection of white privilege at it's worst.

BeanMusical

(4,389 posts)
28. Robert Reich Explains How DNC Is Royally Screwing Over Bernie Sanders
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 04:20 AM
Dec 2015

Progressives are justifiably outraged at what appears to be a power play by the Democratic establishment. Over just the past couple of hours, more than 50,000 DFA members have signed on to stand with Bernie Sanders against it.

snip

It seems like the DNC is doing all it can to blunt the momentum of Bernie's campaign -- just 24 hours after it received major endorsements from DFA and the Communication Workers of America.First, the DNC refused to schedule an appropriate number of debates -- and hid the ones they did schedule by setting them up near holidays or on weekend nights.

Now, in a huge overreaction to a situation involving a security glitch by a data vendor, the DNC has completely removed the Sanders campaign's access to its very own voter file data -- and they won't say when or if they will give it back.

snip

Robert Reich
Former Secretary of Labor


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-hanley/robert-reich-explains-how_b_8842478.html

eridani

(51,907 posts)
30. What gets me is that she doesn't have to do that. She has perfectly good positions--
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 06:13 AM
Dec 2015

--on a number of issues that Latinos care about I mean other than continuing the War on Some Drugs.

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