Posted on 12/23/2015 11:48:20 AM PST by simpson96
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...
The only Spanish the Left cares about is “Donde es mi mierde gratis?”
the hag is a pariah to most Americans but is too narcissistic to recognize it and I’m sure she doesn’t care anyway as long as she gets MORE POWER AND MORE MONEY!!
Ahm in no ways el tired-o!
Hillary=Basura!
mierde ?
ROFLMAO!!!!...................................
She was named after a Mariachi band.
ROFL ROFL OMG This thread is killing me ROFL
It's the least a patriotic American can do!
No es abuela; es la hija de la Gran Puta.
Translation: Not a grandmother; is the daughter of the Great Whore.
lol. Ted Cruz’ father was Cuban born, no?
Ted’s more of a latino than Hillary.
who? “go to the back of the line” Clinton? why she’s a woman of the people
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