Hillary Clinton is famous for pandering to American regional and ethnic groups in the most shameless, condescending ways. The most famous instance of this was when she went to Selma, Alabama and started speaking like a black Southerner. It’s the way she’s decided to win, but to most Americans with any sort of social grace, it seems like a clear sign that she just doesn’t get people at all.
This time, Hillary’s electoral priorities are clear: take your guns and open the borders. To do that, she’ll need support from America’s large contingent of Hispanic supporters, and so they’re the object of her pandering. How’s that going?
A GIF-filled campaign post aimed at winning over Latino voters has backfired and instead is drawing the ire of many social media users for purportedly playing up ethnic stereotypes.
The campaign’s “7 ways Hillary Clinton is just like your abuela”(the Spanish word for grandmother), which came on the same day Clinton’s daughter Chelsea announced she is pregnant with what will be Clinton’s second grandchild, was quickly derided by many online users as using vague stereotypes, basic Spanish vocabulary and even a photo of the candidate with singer Marc Anthony to show she is in touch with a younger generation.
“It’s no secret that Hillary is loving her role as grandma,” the campaign post says. “And she was thrilled to learn that next summer, her granddaughter Charlotte will have a sibling to play with.”
The post then goes on to make numerous uses of the word respeto (Spanish for respect) paired with numerous GIFs, including one where she goes after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump by saying she had one word for him: “Basta! Enough!” The post ends with “Everybody loves abuela—even this guy,” which shows a picture of Clinton alongside Anthony.
The post was quickly met with derision. Twitter users expressed their outrage using the hashtag #NotMiAbuela or #NotMyAbuela.
Activist Marisol Ramos tweeted: “Hilary is #NotMiAbuela #NotMyAbuela because I was separated by mine by many miles, and a militarized border.”
The comments have been predictably excellent- you can follow them here. It will be interesting to see how Hillary’s approach of pandering to Hispanics does against Donald Trump’s straight talking approach.
AAN Staff
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