The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Alex]

Or perhaps it is just implying that illegal immigrants are criminals. If the numbers were to turn out to be true, would they be racist? Is it not possible to hold the opinion that illegal immigrants are more likely to engage in criminal activities without it being an indictment based on race? I think the poor and marginalized are more likely to be involved in criminal activities regardless of the race category of the poor marginalized people. It just so happens that in illegal immigrants tend to be poor and marginalized and tend to be overwhelmingly Latino.

I don't see that as racist.


Also the EEOC only considers "Hispanic" a race by first excluding from the meaning of "hispanic" all the non-Latino Hispanics. So, yes, by defining "hispanic" to mean "latino" then you do get closer to something like a "race." But since there are millions of Asian Hispanics the EEOC is using a non-standard meaning of the word.

The U.S. Census does not consider Hispanic a race which is why the EEOC has to provide detailed instructions on how they convert an Ethnicity (Hispanic) into a race (Hispanic).