The recordings were posted on a now-defunct account on the social media website Reddit. ![]() No duh.Ĭertainly, this coarseness is not in the same league as Martinez describing City Councilman Mike Bonin, who is gay, as “a little bitch,” describing his son, who is Black, as a monkey, or calling brown-skinned Oaxacans who have settled in Koreatown ugly.īut it underscores the depressing clannishness of these Latino officials, and their apparent belief that everybody who is not like them is fair game to be trampled in the quest for political muscle. And guessing that an Armenian American’s name ends in i-a-n is the intellectual equivalent of calling water wet. “It ends in i-a-n, betcha,” a councilman says.īeing dismissive of someone’s facial features is crass and immature. Someone then speculates about his last name. ![]() In the recordings, he is described as “the guy with the one eyebrow,” by Nury Martinez, who stepped down from her post as City Council president on Monday after The Times broke the story Sunday.
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