I confess, I hate made-up words. Take Latinx for example. Latinx is one of those phony words that white people use to make them look “respectful” of Latinos.
Made-up Indian Elizabeth Warren loved using the made-up word Latinx. Just do a Twitter search of Liz’s tweets when she was running for President. She couldn’t get enough of it – not because she was trying to appeal to Latinos.
Fact is, Latinos hate the word Latinx. No. Liz was trying to appeal to her built-in base – the Liberal cul-de-sac wine moms in the suburbs.
But what better word to describe a faux Spaniard than the faux word Latinx? A made-up word for a made-up cultural identity. It’s perfect.
See, apparently Alec Baldwin’s Boston-born wife Hillary has for years been masquerading as a faux Latinx from Mallorca, Spain.
I saw this video clip of Boston-born Hillary doing a little cooking lesson on the Today show and struggling to remember the English word for “cucumber” – complete with the stereotypical “how you say in English.”
Why do people do this?
I mean, how did Hillary from Boston come to the decision to pretend to be Hilaria from Mallorca?
Did a young Hillary go out on the town one night and, just for laughs, pretended to be Spanish? Then as she was pretending to be Hilaria from Mallorca, the Faux Latinx met Alec Baldwin who was so charmed by her faux Spanish accent that he fell in love with her. And once that happened, poor Boston Hillary couldn’t figure out how to wiggle her way out of it?
Was it an attempt to make herself seem exotic. I mean, her American family was living in Spain at the time she came to the US for college. Maybe she thought pretending to be an exotic Spanish beauty would make her more popular with her classmates. And after a few years of her faux Latinx routine, “Hilaria” had no graceful way of putting an end to the charade.
However it started, this weekend her charade came to an end – and not gracefully. Now Hillary is stuck with this hypocrisy and scrambling to get out of it.
Rather than issue a mea culpa (how you say mea culpa in Español?) for her years of cultural appropriation, Hillary the Faux Latinx took to Instagram to play the victim.
She never out-and-out said her mother was Spanish! And, really, what’s the big deal?
Of course in this Instagram video where she marveled over why anyone is upset, Hillary was missing the faux Latinx accent she’s been using for the better part of a decade.
“I’m starting to feel that I’m being attacked for who I am,” Hillary whined.
No, honey. You’re being “attacked” for who you aren’t.
You’re a … how you say in English … phony.
Here is a simple Truth of life: Lies always unravel. Eventually the truth will out.
Just ask Rachel Dolezal or the aforementioned Elizabeth Warren.
In the grand scheme of things, a foolish woman outed as a Faux Latinx isn’t the worst thing to happen in 2020. Not by a long shot.
But it is muy, muy divertido.