In case you were not aware, September 15th is the start of Hispanic Heritage Month. This is a time to celebrate the many peoples and histories that comprise the cultural mosaic that is the fastest growing demographic group in Florida.

Unless you’re whatever poor soul is in charge of the Broward county government’s Twitter account. Then it’s the perfect excuse to achieve what I honestly had previously thought was unachievable: uniting an incredibly population in facepalmy outrage.

I try not to comment on the culture wars/politically correct stuff. It’s like writing about tobacco except with identity politics people don’t know they’re addicted. Getting through to the different tribes is like trying to deradicalize one of those suburban teenage girls that went to fight for ISIS. But sometimes someone does something so unbelievably, comically stupid that I feel I must mention it because surely no one’s gonna stand up to defend the dancing taco as a symbol of Latin culture. Right? Please? Can we all at least agree that the symbol of “Hispanic” heritage probably should not he a dancing taco gif that looks like something someone bought at a Spencer’s Gifts 15 years ago for a college party they don’t remember?

Broward changed the tweet a little later. Which is fine, except to me it isn’t. In government, the reality is that most of the time you can’t get done what you want to get done because you don’t control all the outcomes, but those outcomes you can control can maybe make up for that. At least you can use those outcomes you control to promote your values.

Which begs the question: what does a county government honestly control more directly than a Twitter account? It’s just some intern who probably sits at a desk down the hall from the County Administrator. The people who run the day to day probably see this person regularly. Regularly enough that they should know if they handed their Twitter account over to someone who thinks a dancing taco as a political statement of support for Latinos is appropriate.

Look, there’s definitely a grey area when it comes to sensitivity and sensitivity training where someone can make an honest mistake. We left that behind five exits ago. We’re in dancing taco country now, where people post stuff like that and then come back in a year and ask Latinos for their votes. Maybe there’s a hidden dancing taco vote I don’t know about, but I highly doubt it.

Or maybe somebody was just day drinking and thought it looked cool, their judgment clearly impaired. I really hope it’s the second one.