So, we’re still doing this. And by “this,” we mean trying to drag Lin-Manuel Miranda through a field of glass shards for the sin of “In the Heights” not being Latinx (gotta use the woke term) enough.
Last week, multiple media outlets reported that Miranda was under fire for failing to have enough Afro-Latino representation in his film, which ultimately resulted in an unnecessary and frankly unwarranted apology from Miranda. Actress Rita Moreno, who had defended Miranda, ultimately apologized for that.
And yesterday, the Washington Post published this opinion piece by Julissa Contreras and Dash Harris Machado:
‘In the Heights’ is just more of the same whitewashed Hollywood, @Jewleesah and @InADash write in an op-ed. https://t.co/RzTGHjWf3f
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) June 21, 2021
When you read a headline like that, you know you’re in for a treat.
And it’s our pleasure to tell you that Contreras and Machado did not disappoint.
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1407315598963625985
See? We told you it was good!
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1407317218229161990
Cooke’s not exaggerating, just FYI.
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1407318293606801410
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1407318404088975361
Lawdy.
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1407318576126693379
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1407319131737690114
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1407320348710871051
Here’s that last paragraph, in case you’re interested:
We afrodescendants have always forged our own paths that respond and correspond to our needs. Organizations such as Mujeres Negras RD, AfroResistance, Barrio Alante, Proyecto AfroLatin@, Bx (Re)Birth and Progress, Radio Caña Negra, AfroLatino Travel, Reconoci.do all center AfroLatinos on our terms and without the shallow fanfare. Divesting from the system that synchronously extracts our talents and creations and demands our silence and absence becomes ever more imperative. Latinidad and all of its oppressive, disingenuous trappings is nearing its final curtain call.
*Chef’s kiss*
democracy dies in unintelligible word salad pic.twitter.com/oEiK0jyqBy
— joelgrus 🍺🐝📕 fizzbuzzbook.com (@joelgrus) June 22, 2021
I believe the official name is Latinidad and Lobogo.
— mitrebox (@mitrebox) June 22, 2021
Snort.
It's like they fed 500 Oberlin term papers into an AI bot https://t.co/z5ldQLxJfR
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 22, 2021
PunditBot 3000 can do the work of 200 OpEd workers pic.twitter.com/Gl1vuAbcIE
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 22, 2021
I love authentic academic frontier gibberish pic.twitter.com/JzinRkgNz1
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 22, 2021
What a perfect way to describe it.
Simultaneously pretentious and illiterate argle-bargle.
— Edward Suarez (@EdwardMSuarez) June 22, 2021
If Latinos speaking Spanish is racist now, then literally everything is racist.
— David C (@sicklecow) June 22, 2021
“As a distancing mechanism from their Whiteness.”
Isn’t that a good thing in their worldview? Separating from “Whiteness”?
Or are “white” people supposed to stay passively racist?
— elroy cain (@CainEllroy) June 22, 2021
White people are supposed to hate themselves. And white Latinxs are supposed to be ashamed of their whiteness.
Or something. All you really need to know is that Latinxs who are too white are highly problematic.
Why do these people insist on referring to the Latino and Hispanic communities as Latinx? So many Latinos and Hispanics abhor being called that.
— Melissa (@toastmastermel2) June 22, 2021
The article is obviously looney tunes and it's insane major publications choose to publish such nonsense, but can we also talk about how offensive it is that media organizations keep trying to normalize a term (LatinX) that almost no one in the Latino community actually uses? https://t.co/PyRZQ8BaXq
— AG (@AGHamilton29) June 22, 2021
YES. Thank you. It’s ridiculous.
"Latinx" not again…
— Arsenio Javi Zulfikar 🇮🇩 🕌 (@AJ_ZULFIKAR) June 22, 2021
I don't know what a latinxs is.
— Jahaziel Garcia (@Jahazielgarcia) June 22, 2021
Nobody does. Because it’s not a thing.
Latinxs isn't a word.
— James B (@TheRealJamesFB) June 22, 2021
And wokeness isn’t progress.
Democracy dies in the circular firing squad
— Tony Daquano (@adaquano) June 22, 2021
When CRT is your goggles, everything is racist.
— Liberal (Classical) (@Co_lo_neh) June 22, 2021
— Lil Amos Sinema Simp (@AmosFromWV) June 22, 2021
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