ongoing racist bullshit in arizona thread

jesus fucking christ

Aaaah. Mazing.

who campaigned in 2010 on the promise to “stop la raza.”

This is like science-fiction world to me.

I read that sentence and was like "how more blatantly racist can you get?"

wow

shit makes me so angry i can't think straight.

arizona is just tilting at windmills

to me it's more pathetic and embarrassing than dangerous, tbh. you just want to pat some of those people on the head and say, "guys it's 2012. come on."

i'm sure it's all really cute if you're a latino in az or ms or ga

Another notable text removed from Tucson’s classrooms is Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest.” In a meeting this week, administrators informed Mexican-American studies teachers to stay away from any units where “race, ethnicity and oppression are central themes,” including the teaching of Shakespeare’s classic in Mexican-American literature courses.

jfc

(i thought i posted that hours ago, weird)

ugh

more and more I am beginning to think federalism is a bad idea

federalism is a smoke-screen for racist policy, basically

at least in America it historically has been

are they going to avoid discussing the holocaust too?

i know the superintendent of tucson unified :(

(i thought i posted that hours ago, weird)

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Sunday, January 15, 2012 3:30 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you did, on a lolz thread

or something

http://tucsoncitizen.com/arizona-news/2012/01/17/tucson-district-denies-ban-of-mexican-american-books/

kids, walk the fuck out of those classrooms right now

they'd probably be shot on the spot, and the cases their parents brought wouldn't even be heard by the supreme court, if it got that far

In a statement Tuesday, TUSD spokeswoman Cara Rene wrote that the books were not banned. They are still available to students through their school libraries, she wrote.

“The books… have been moved to the district storage facility because the classes have been suspended as per the ruling by Arizona Superintendent (of) Public Instruction John Huppenthal,” Rene wrote.

"you can still have them! In that storage room! The locked one, guarded by a leopard and the guy with the AK-47! Cmon!"

this is n/l even for arizona imo

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/02/04/418027/arizona-gop-lawmaker-wants-a-state-holiday-to-celebrate-white-people/?mobile=nc

i posted that after only reading the headline, rescind n/l

still n/l

“Good idea,” said one woman. “Like they have Cinco de Mayo for Mexicans. We need something for whites.”

http://www.thinkhero.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/2012-poster.jpg

"Good idea,” said one woman. “Like they have Cinco de Mayo for Mexicans. We need something for whites.”

― Frobisher (Viceroy), Monday, February 6, 2012 12:43 AM (47 minutes ago)

amazing

(it's called st. patrick's day, fwiw)

lol the picture on that article

(it's called st. patrick's day, fwiw)

― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Sunday, February 5, 2012 10:31 PM Bookmark

ha otm

To paraphrase my mother answering my complaints about their being a Mother's Day and a Father's Day but no Children's Day: "EVERY day is White Man's Day!"

ARIZONA SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS BAR ON SPANISH-SPEAKING CANDIDATE | Arizona’s Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s decision that prevents a Latina woman from running for office because she does not speak English proficiently, Fox News reports. State law requires elected officials to speak English but does not define “proficiency,” argued attorneys for Alejandra Cabrera, who had filed to run for San Luis, Arizona’s city council. While Cabrera admits that she speaks “little English,” 98.7 percent of San Luis’ population is of Hispanic origin. “My English is fine for San Luis,” she said in January. Cabrera’s attorney is exploring ways to appeal her case to the United States Supreme Court.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/02/08/421167/arizona-supreme-court-upholds-bar-on-spanish-speaking-candidate/

that law may be vague and in need of amending but i don't think its racist nor is the motivation to uphold it

Citizenship shouldn't devolve into something less than full and complete citizenship, based on what languages you speak. True, there are practical problems that arise when communication is difficult among different groups in a country, but lots of countries have to deal with this. There are better ways.

there are def practical reasons why you would want everyone who is voting on a bill to understand the technical language in the bill, otoh this is not a major problem in america at all and is only being made into one because people hate mexicans

gee, I wonder who brought this lawsuit against Cabrera and what their motivations could possibly be

that law may be vague and in need of amending but i don't think its racist nor is the motivation to uphold it

― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, February 10, 2012 2:15 PM (13 minutes ago)

no, it is. why doesn't the same apply to voters? there's a language exam for people who write laws, but not for people who vote these people in? what would have been her constituency probably overwhelmingly speaks spanish

i agree she'll prob serve her constituency better than a native english speaker but i dunno man i mean her job is going to involve going in and dealing w/ complex issues she needs to make a call on, all being discussed in english

and its not crazy to take that as a serious, non-racist concern

but agree w/ iatee and shakey that there are shitty racist scumbags beneath it

if someone can be democratically elected and, as you said, is a person who would well represent her constituency, the burden shouldn't be on that person to adjust to the democratic process, the democratic process should be flexible enough to adjust for her. ie get her a translator.

it's like if she had a wheelchair and cityhall didn't have wheelchair-access.

Yes, but state law doesn't require her to be able-bodied. It does require her to speak English.

right, which is just as stupid

yeah that was the point jon

xposts yeah that's apples and oranges.

i don't know enough about this to continue arguing and I'm willing to bet there's a case to be made for amending the current law, but its not crazy to assert that there are all sorts of nuanced ideas that are important parts of the job that cant be trusted/expected to be filtered through a translator

tho the UN does it so i dunno

gee, I wonder who brought this lawsuit against Cabrera and what their motivations could possibly be

The mayor that Cabrera tried to get recalled.

dont mind me i'm just on some "only *I* get to make fun of AZ for being racist" steez i guess

yeah the UN vs. San Luis, Arizona city council

there are like 1m poorer and smaller countries that manage to have governments that work in more than one language, no reason we cant do it even on the state level, except if we want to discriminate against people who dont speak english