Posted on 12/28/2016 3:14:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
You may not recognize Josie Ramon’s face or even her name, but if you’ve been following the wave of anti-Latinx harassment that’s accompanied Donald Trump’s political rise, there’s a good chance you’ve caught a glimpse of what the Michigan tween’s life was like in the days following the 2016 Presidential election.
Ramon, who is 12, was a student at Royal Oaks Middle School outside of Detroit during the final months of the presidential race. On November 9, just one day after Donald Trump was elected president, Ramon was sitting in the lunchroom at school when a group of students began chanting one of Trump’s oft-repeated campaign slogans: “Build the wall.”
Ramon, a seventh grader, pulled out her phone and began filming the scene, later sharing the footage with her mother, who in turn shared it with another student’s parent. That parent uploaded the short clip to Facebook, where it quickly went viral.
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But for Ramon, the video’s viral reach didn’t solve the proliferation of Trump-inspired harassment—in many ways, it only made things worse. In a new interview with CNN, Ramon described how she was castigated and ostracized by her peers for having filmed their bad behavior.
“People would see me in the hallways and turn around and walk the other way,” she recalled to CNN. “I felt like an animal.”
According to Ramon, several of her classmates’ families even called for her expulsion for shooting the incriminating video in the first place. The atmosphere at school turned so toxic that, despite efforts by the school to address the incident and its impact on the student body, Ramon withdrew from Royal Oak and enrolled in public school instead.
Nevertheless, Ramon told CNN she has no regrets.
“If I had to go through this again to help everybody else who’s Mexican-American, I would do it a thousand million bajillion more times,” she said.
You can watch the full CNN interview with Ramon below:
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It’s the new gender neutral term for Latina / Latino. It’s hard to keep up!
A Spanish-growling lynx.
Gender-neutral alternative to Latino/Latina.
They have to get this in before Trump takes over and changes everything.
Now there's conflict between Spanish speakers who regard "latinx" as a desecration of their language and anti-Spain Latin Americans who don't mind poking the Castilians in the face when they can.
Would you be so kind as to clue me in on, “Fusion,” and what is a “latinx?”
Thanks.
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Thus, the Language Neuterers should use some other suffix for their delusional neologisms.
If it’s about x I assume you know what you’re talking about.
Fusion is a blog masquerading as news and for Latinx see post 20.
"Latinx" is the ancient Roman version of their own operating system.
It’s a cleaner version of LatinXXX.
The competing solution was "latin@."
It gets in both the "a" and the "o".
But how would you possibly pronounce it?
/eyeroll.
Thanks.
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these Gd libtards come up with new crap everyday. Thanks.
I gotta ask, too. Is it pronounced Latin-ex, or La-tinks? I can see how the Snowflakes could completely spaz out once they learn how sexist and gender normative the Spanish language is. “They are minorities, and therefore victims, but their language is triggering me!” What to do? I know! Latinx!
“What’s a Latinx?”
That’s the new way to say ‘pindejo’.
Let them try “Latinu”, then. But then many Romanians will complain about being confused with Latin Americans.
Yeah, I thought it was a latex Latino. In a way, I guess it is! Flexible enough to do stretch over everything, like a rubberized tarp. Would they be Tinx or Tinks for plural?
Thank you for this explanation. I won’t be participating in this form of social engineering via language. I have to hand it to liberals, though - they certainly recognize the power of language in normalizing anything.
A gender-neutral alternative to Latino/Latina? Has it escaped these people that every noun in Spanish has a gender? (At least every noun I’ve ever heard of, though I am by no means fluent in the language.)
I agree. There have been a lot of false accusations made since Trump was elected. I refuse to acknowledge them.
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