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Originally Posted by Syndic
You're so offended by an opposing opinion that you have to resort to insults and vitriol. That's how many "Anglos" are starting to feel in Texas; like we can't have our own identity and culture without Hispanics getting offended about it.
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No! No no no! What I said was this: We LOVE cultural amenities. We want cultural amenities of many different stripes. I used your own logic to point out that once Hispanics became the majority, that your argument would mean that we should give up on having major cultural outlets depicting Anglo Texan history, and specifically said that
that would not be acceptable at all by any means whatsoever, and by the same token, it is not acceptable at all by any means whatsoever for you to also say that because Hispanics are a minority that there cannot be major cultural amenities depicting their history as well. We want
all cultural amenities to be welcome. The reason that I called your point of view racist is because
you don't want a specific type of cultural amenity depicting minorities to be welcome at all despite the fact that they are the second largest group in this state, with a longer history, a history that is vibrant, a history that is integral even to the current Anglo culture within this state, and a history that has been ignored by people like you for far too long.
You want to say that their history is paltry? You're absolutely wrong - and I say that as a very proud Anglo. I want to see all of our culture's pieces flourish, whereas you seem to only want Anglos to flourish, and that, sir, is what makes your point of view disgusting.
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What I want to know is why Mexican-Americans are so aggressive about honoring their culture at the expense of everyone else's?
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Why do you have to turn this into a zero-sum game!? Nobody wants Hispanic culture to be honored at the expense of white people. Nobody. We want
all of us to be honored and placed within the historical and cultural context. For too long Afro and Hispanic cultural contributions to Texas have been ignored, and that is very much an oversight that needs to be rectified. We have many many cultural outlets dedicated to the rugged west of Texas and the contributions of Anglos to Texas, and I want to keep those and support them to the best of my ability (see things such as the Bob Bullock Museum among many others), but we have very very few that tell the subaltern stories of our distinct minority groups as well. They've always been here, so please do not tell me that providing their points of view is at the expense of dominant Anglos.
I'd also like to point out that German Americans have many cultural amenities here in Texas, but your own logic and definition of Anglo (which is wrong), would suggest that because they aren't the majority (nowhere near being such, I might add) that those cultural amenities should disappear because, as you put it, most Texans don't identify with their unique experience and so that experience shouldn't be told. I have the feeling that you'd very much disagree with the expropriation of your logic in this instance because Germans are white, whereas Hispanics are not (though I will add that the United States federal government defines Hispanics as white Americans) thereby putting into distinct relief your awful ethnocentric attitude against Hispanics.
P.S. I've been to the Valley many times and have never, ever felt as if I wasn't welcome.
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