Actor James Franco was cast as Fidel Castro. Activists complain he took a job from a Latino. But wait. Isn’t he Latino? He has a Latino name. He is of Portuguese ethnicity. So why isn’t he Latino enough?

When Sonia Sotomayor was appointed to the Supreme Court, activists celebrated her as the first Latino justice. But she wasn’t. Benjamin Cardozo was appointed to the Court in 1932, hardly late-breaking news. Like Franco, Cardozo had a Latino name and was of Portuguese ethnicity. But he wasn’t Latino enough for the activists. You see, he was Jewish.

And sure enough, Franco has the same problem. His mother is Jewish. When I was young, it was good to be White, but Jews like me weren’t White enough. Now it is bad to be White, so Jews are as White as driven snow. Apparently the same defective logic applies to Latinos. When it was bad to be Latino, Franco would have been seen as Latino. But now that it’s good to be Latino, he’s not Latino enough – he’s part Jewish. Whatever the favored group is, Jews are in the other group.

Isn’t it odd that racism and anti-Semitism seem to go so well with leftism. Or maybe not so odd after all.