Burrows asks French to delete the post
Speaker of the Texas House posting on his public X account.
“You can oppose immigration policy without demeaning people because of their race or ethnicity — this post has crossed the line. Delete it @bofrench”
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Was Bo French’s UT Austin post racist?
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Source and context
Original post
About this source
Burrows’s direct response asks French to delete the post while distinguishing immigration-policy opposition from racial or ethnic denigration.
Reporting
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State political reporting that documents the sequence of French’s posts and attributable responses from elected officials.
Reporting
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Original local reporting that verified the still came from an official Texas Athletics video and published Abbott’s direct response.
Before the quotation
French had characterized the pictured fans as evidence of a problem and foreign displacement.
After the quotation
Burrows’s distinction became one of the clearest Republican counter-positions in the dispute.
How this statement is classified
Burrows directly condemns the conduct under scrutiny while distinguishing it from permissible immigration-policy opposition.
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