Roberto Lovato (English) was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times in a column titled, "Latinophobia in mainstream news fuels the radical right," which discusses the dangerous effects of Latinx erasure in and by the major media.
"Roberto Lovato, a journalist and visiting professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, told me the media’s chronic disregard for and demonization of Latinos make it 'easier to murder and even mass murder and abuse and cage and separate and silence Latinos.'” He pointed to the El Paso massacre as an example of the possible consequences.
It reminds him of what he saw in El Salvador leading up to killings by U.S.-backed right-wing militias. “'There was always a media component first that dehumanized people who ended up dead,' he said."
