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NBC News: ‘Spanish, not English, is the most all-American language’

A “thought experiment” published on Sunday by NBC News claims that Spanish — not English — is the “most all-American language.”

Gustavo Arellano, the California columnist for the Los Angeles Times opinion section, starts by asserting that it’s “dangerous” to speak Spanish in Trump’s America, citing six anecdotes cherry-picked to make his case that the United States under President Trump is a nation of bigots.

“Such open, ugly bigotry seems like the new normal for Latinos, and statistics are starting to back that up. An FBI report showed that hate crimes against Latinos rose 15 percent from 2015 to 2016, which just so happens to coincide with the rise of 45,” he said, apparently unaware that Trump did not officially become President until January 2017.

He then makes the claim:

Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?

Latinos love la habla not just because it’s part of their culture, but because we know what conservatives refuse to accept: Spanish, not English, is the most all-American language of them all.

Just re-read your history books. Spaniards had already established vibrant colonies from St. Augustine to Santa Fe by the time the English set up Jamestown in 1607. Previous generations of Americans knew to learn at least some Spanish when they moved into what’s now the Southwest United States, when it was still part of Mexico. And the lingo of the most American icon of them all, the cowboy, is mucho mucho with Spanish roots, from buckaroo (from vaquero— cowboy) to vamoose (from “vamos”—let’s go) to that most red-blooded car of them all, the Mustang (from the Spanish word for stray animals).

The article sparked quite a bit of anger on social media, Fox News said.

“I guess the French are racist when they scoff at people for speaking English in their country, if you use the logic of this article. What makes American English beautiful is that it encompasses several languages. The writer is biased and ignorant,” one person said on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/allannex/status/1000786374776184833

Others called the NBC article “silly,” “stupid news” and “anti white propaganda.”

One person noted:

https://twitter.com/WeAreWatching1/status/1000739501793251330

Of course not…

Fox News said NBC did not respond to their request for comment, but Arellano stated: “There’s backlash? It’s all valentines for me!”

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Joe Newby

A 10-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Joe ran for a city council position in Riverside, Calif., in 1991 and managed successful campaigns for the Idaho state legislature. Co-author of "Banned: How Facebook enables militant Islamic jihad," Joe wrote for Examiner.com from 2010 until it closed in 2016 and his work has been published at Newsbusters, Spokane Faith and Values and other sites. He now runs the Conservative Firing Line.

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