Far-left media accusing Hispanics and black conservatives of 'white supremacy'
Amid a number of notable Republican victories involving minority candidates and shifting voting trends in the United States, the liberal media has sounded the alarm on a new perceived political emergence: White supremacy and far-right extremism among Black and Hispanic conservatives.
On Wednesday, The New York Times published a piece headlined "The Rise of the Far-Right Latina," referencing Mayra Flores, the first female Mexican-born member of the House, and two other Republican Latinas running for office, Monica De La Cruz and Cassy Garcia.
The piece argued that Flores flipped her seat in Texas from blue to red by "shunning moderates" while "embracing the far right."
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After winning a special election last month in the state's 34th Congressional District, she will run for a full term in November against Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez as part of a new map that favors him. This is the first time the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas will send a Hispanic Republican to Congress in 10 years. Liberal media outlets have frequently criticized the Republican Party for lacking diversity, but now appear to worry that Hispanic voters are shifting conservative.
For her charge of labeling Flores far-right, Medina’s evidence included a prior instance in which the Texas representative called for President Biden’s impeachment, calling the Democratic Party the "greatest threat America faces," supporting Donald Trump’s conservative policies, and tweeting QAnon hashtags. In the latter example, Flores has repeatedly denied the hashtags were meant as support for the conspiracy theory group, but rather draw attention to and denounce it. These tweets have also been deleted amid scrutiny. Flores also failed to answer a reporter’s question about whether Biden was a legitimately elected president.
Medina’s evidence for labeling De La Cruz and Garcia as "far-right" was that they are all "pro-Trump."
In comparison, The New York Times offered a much comfier deep-dive into another Latina politician, Democratic Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez, in 2018 following her surprise Democratic primary victory in New York.
The piece described Ocasio-Cortez as a "political rock star" who never failed to speak her mind or stick up for her values. Notably, The Times’ concern with radical political philosophy did not extend to the avowed Democratic socialist, who currently holds a 97% progressive score on the Congressional voting records database ProgressivePunch.
Speaking with Fox News Digital, Media Research Center Latino Director Jorge Bonilla slammed the Times’ piece on Flores as an "ethnic disqualification piece."
"We never heard about the ‘rise of the socialist Latina’ when AOC was elected because this is the left’s presumed norm. Since the Latino identity is inextricably linked to left-wing politics, the piece serves to identify the Texas Trio to the rest of the media as race traitors and therefore non-entities within the communities they aim to represent in Congress," Bonilla said.
He went on to add that the media presumes Blacks, Hispanics and other ethnic minorities are "permanent members of the Democrats’ coalition" to be engaged on "race-adjacent matters."
But, The Times’ piece on "far-right" Latinas is far from the first time in recent memory that liberal media outlets have grown concerned about conservative political extremism among minority groups.
Another notable Republican, Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears, also faced intense criticism from media outlets when she was elected alongside Gov. Glenn Youngkin in 2021. Sears is the first Black female elected to Virginia statewide office, a Jamaican immigrant, and a Marine Corps veteran, but that did not stop outlets from tying her to the far-right.
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The far-left NY Times is out of touch. Hispanics and blacks are intelligent enough to see the failures of the far-left and embrace conservatism. The suggestion that the left is the sole political representative of minorities is insulting.
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