Sameness

In his column today George F. Will informed us that "Still, McConnell believes that although Hispanics, the nation's largest minority, gave Obama two-thirds of their votes, they are entrepreneurial and culturally conservative, and therefore are not beyond the reach of Republicans."

This kind of stuff annoys me to no end. Why is it that white people are allowed to have all sorts of opinions (Liberal, Conservative, Libertarian, etc.) but "Hispanics" are entrepreneurial and culturally conservative. All Hispanics. Everywhere. All those millions of people are "entrepreneurial." Yeah sure.

What Will doesn't seem to understand is that talking this way about entire groups of people denies them their humanity. Yes, that's highfalutin language but what else can you call it.

Please stop doing this. If you want to get the Blacks and Hispanics in your party, you'll have to learn to address us actual people. Not as some sort of desirable demographic that will simply allow you to win elections.