{"id":1402836,"date":"2022-03-27T11:14:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T15:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1402836"},"modified":"2022-03-27T11:14:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T15:14:52","slug":"l-a-times-asks-if-county-sheriff-exemplifies-worst-latino-traits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/l-a-times-asks-if-county-sheriff-exemplifies-worst-latino-traits\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Times Asks if County Sheriff Exemplifies &#039;Worst&#039; Latino &#039;Traits&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fl-a-times-asks-if-county-sheriff-exemplifies-worst-latino-traits%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1402836&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The\u00a0<i>Los\u00a0Angeles Times<\/i> has published a series of articles asking whether Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva exemplifies the \u201cworst\u201d Latino \u201ctraits,\u201d a claim that, if the writer were not Latino, would be widely recognized as racist.<\/p>\n<p>The series of articles, by columnist Gustavo Arellano, is titled: \u201cL.A. County\u2019s sheriff leans on his Latino identity. Does he exemplify our worst traits?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The series was highlighted by the newspaper as the \u201ceditors\u2019 pick,\u201d complete with the \u201cworst Latino traits\u201d headline.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20396900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-27-at-6.23.56-AM.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">L.A. Times home page, Mar. 27, 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-03-24\/alex-villanueva-latinos-reelection\">part one<\/a> of the series, Arellano admits that \u201cVillanueva\u2019s department walks the diversity walk,\u201d and that \u201cLatino supporters think of him as someone sin pelos en la lengua \u2014 without hairs on the tongue, a Mexican Spanish idiom for a straight shooter worth admiring.\u201d But he thens suggests that Villanueva \u201ccontinuously exemplified one of the worst traits of the Latino experience,\u201d without defining what that might be \u2014 until part two.<\/p>\n<p>There, Arellano professes amazement at Villanueva\u2019s criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement, which he says reflects a racism against black people that is \u201clatent in all Latinos\u201d:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFor every one \u2018Say her name,\u2019\u201d Villanueva proclaimed, \u201cyou\u2019d have to say a thousand names of people who were killed. Black people killing Black people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Villanueva felt Black people have it far better today than in the past \u2014 and what\u2019s keeping young Black people down is themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, [activists are] running around saying that [law enforcement are] slave catchers,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t have the same perspective in the Latino community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when I realized Villanueva was even more Latino than I gave him credit for. He had tapped into the vein of anti-Blackness latent in all Latinos, one that gets exacerbated when Black and Latino communities compete for the same resources in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Arellano provided no evidence that \u201call Latinos\u201d share a sense of \u201canti-Blackness,\u201d other than his own opinion.<\/p>\n<p>In part three of the interview, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-03-24\/sheriff-alex-villanueva-vaccine-mandates\">reported<\/a> that<\/p>\n<p>On the term \u201cLatinx,\u201d the sheriff responded:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Spanish language does not accept \u2018Latinx.\u2019\u201d He went on to ridicule people who use it and \u201ctheir preferred pronouns and all that s\u2014\u201d in an attempt at inclusivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLatinx\u201d to Villanueva is \u201ckind of a modern creation \u2026 where the average Latino says, \u2018Screw you.\u2019 The entire language is based on gender. Everything has a gender. Inanimate objects have a gender. <em>El \u00e1rbol<\/em>\u00a0[tree] \u2014 it\u2019s not l<em>a \u00e1rbol<\/em>, it\u2019s <em>el \u00e1rbol<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arellano also notes that Villanueva fought against vaccine mandates, while encouraging his deputies to take the vaccine voluntarily, because 80% of his workforce was \u201c[c]onservative and far right\u201d and would push back against mandates.<\/p>\n<p>Villanueva himself remains a Democrat. He is up for reelection in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Los\u00a0Angeles Times has published a series of articles asking whether Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva exemplifies the \u201cworst\u201d Latino \u201ctraits,\u201d a claim that, if the writer were not Latino,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}