Orlando Sanchez
Role at the time: Houston-area public official and political candidate posting on X.
Condemned
Responding to
French’s posts demeaned the pictured people because of their race or ethnicity.
“Those students weren’t a ‘problem.’ Judging someone by their appearance and assuming they are foreigners is wrong, un-American, and has no place in our party or our state.”
Why we used this label
Sanchez directly condemns the appearance-based inference at issue in French’s post.
Orlando Sanchez rejects Bo French’s characterization of UT fans (opens in a new tab)X post 2099522645939167409 responding to Bo French’s UT fan image post.
Sanchez explicitly responds to French’s post and rejects inferring foreign status from the apparent appearance of people in the image.