Senator Ted Cruz speaks at the George H.W. Bush Commemorative Center in Midland, Texas for a campaign stop Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. Cruz is on his bus tour campaigning before the mid-term elections. (Mark Rogers/Odessa American via AP)

If you’re a conservative who also happens to be part of a so-called “minority” group, you understand all too well how the mainstream media, liberal commentators and other Democrats routinely work to devalue your voice as part of the national conversation.

Simply because you don’t toe the Democratic party line on feminism, illegal immigration, racial quotas, or transgender rights, you are frequently treated as an inauthentic female/Hispanic/black/LGBTQ voter. As someone who is prone to self-loathing.

Even worse than that, oftentimes you’re treated as though your voice doesn’t even exist.

CNN opinion writer Raul Reyes penned a piece that was published earlier today at their website in which he demonstrated this repugnant tactic when describing U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, who are both of Cuban descent, to former Obama HUD secretary Julian Castro, a Mexican-American.

Reyes lamented Castro’s dropping out of the presidential race, stating Castro “showed that a qualified Latino — specifically, a third-generation Mexican-American — could compete at the highest level of politics.” Also, Reyes stated, Castro “was living proof that a Hispanic deserved positive national attention.”

But what about Cruz and Rubio, who were both presidential candidates in 2016? They were too ashamed of their heritage to count, opined Reyes:

Nonetheless, Castro showed America that a progressive Latino can compete at the highest level of politics and hold his own. For Latinos, he was living proof that a Hispanic deserved positive national attention. And unlike former presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, Castro was — like the majority of US Latinos — Mexican American, and very proud of his humble origins.

Cruz got wind of what Reyes wrote in his piece, and responded accordingly:

“For Latinos, [Castro] was living proof that a Hispanic deserved positive national attention. And unlike..Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, Castro was…Mexican American, and very proud of his humble origins.” To CNN’s shock, Marco & I are very both proud of our family origins. https://t.co/Mdoui5Vbu4 — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 2, 2020

Some of Cruz’s Twitter followers also weighed in with some thoughts:

The media pretends Cruz and Rubio weren’t “real” Hispanics in order to deprive the Republican Party of diversity points, and now turns around are says they weren’t “proud” of their origins. Just gross.https://t.co/Zi8OSirFig — Boomieleaks (@notwokieleaks) January 2, 2020

I am proud that two Latinos have won primariy contests in the GOP. Sad that the Dems are still stuck on 0. — Roberto M (@ninetyfeetaway) January 2, 2020

So only certain types of Latin American origin is legit? — David Wright (@dalbeniw) January 2, 2020

Yall are not REAL Latinos, according to the arbitrators of Real Latinoism, @CNN 🙄🤡 On a serious note though, I'll never understand how all of those clown shoes fit in the @CNN Clown Car. — SuzyQ (@SAINTFAN1918) January 2, 2020

Cruz also trolled Democrats, CNN, and Reyes with this inconvenient fact:

In the history of the U.S., no Hispanic has ever won even a single Democratic presidential primary or caucus. (Fact the media will ignore: emphatically not true on the Republican side.) As this year’s field illustrates, Dem party is dominated by white, socialist septuagenarians. https://t.co/Mdoui5Vbu4 — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 2, 2020

Ouch.